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Completed a city habitat project from Scholastic's Animal Habitat workbook! Really fun to learn about. -Ellie

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Squirrels playing in their habitat in our backyard! Fun to watch from the school room window. -Ellie

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Olivia, Noah and I had such a fun time making our worm habitats yesterday! We will be observing them everyday. It was fun teaching them what worms do.

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We found swallowtail caterpillars in our carrots last August. They went into chrysalis last fall and just came out this week!

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We had so much fun doing this activity and talking through the graph!

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Tree in my backyard

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We enjoyed using the printed cards at the bottom of Week 2 to create food chains, but in case anyone wanted to do the activity virtually, we found a game online that we did as well: www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm

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Here's a great book about polar animals you can read right on your screen. Move your mouse to enlarge or position. Use forward & back arrows to turn the pages.  You will need to click on the MackinVIA link below. Then enter:
School/Library Name: GWAEA
Username: 4086hsap
Password: aea10

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MackinVIA is a complete eResource management system providing easy access to eBooks and educational databases. With just one login, users can view, utilize, and manage all of their eResources.

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In every column, drag down the bars at the right & see more posts! --->--->--->>>       Also, keep scrolling to the right for more and more columns.    --->--->--->>>

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In every column, drag down the bars at the right & see more posts! --->--->--->>>       Also, keep scrolling to the right for more and more columns.    --->--->--->>>

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These Padlets will continue until 6/13:
K-1 Insects/Bugs/Crawly Things
2-5 Habitats
6-8 DNA
This Padlet will continue as is:
2-5 Transcontinental RR

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Visit Mrs. Elliott's Transcontinental Railway page!

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Welcome to the Transcontinental Railway Class

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There are so many good books to read about these topics! Go to mackinvia.com on your computer. Sign in with these credentials below, & type habitat or food web or camouflage, etc., in the search box. Enjoy!
School/Library Name: GWAEA
Username: 4086hsap
Password: aea10

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Visit Mrs. Peiffer's insect page!

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I like birds like this colorful bird right here - Abigail

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Food webs easily explained.

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Food Webs: StudyJams! Science | Scholastic.com

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Organisms can be a part of more than one food chain. This student activity will teach students all about the food web and why it is important.

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Visit Mrs. Anderson's 6th-8th DNA page!

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Here's a great activity about prairie food webs you can do at home. Get a large sheet of construction paper. Cut out the animals in the attachment below, then draw arrows showing the path of the energy. Energy goes from the sun, to plants, to herbivores, to carnivores/omnivores, then to decomposers. When you finish, post your project for us to see!

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We enjoyed this & other videos & lesson plans through 5/16. Then my free membership expired. But you can get your own free membership for another new month!
https://www.generationgenius.com

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As you look at the picture of this pond habitat, can you pick out the parts that are living & those that are non-living? Living things breathe, grow, use energy,  reproduce & respond to their surroundings.

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Have fun cutting apart the pages of this book, placing them in order & stapling them. Then you can color the pages & read your books aloud to each other, learning more about habitats.

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Let's watch a good, short video about what habitats are, made by another student, like you!

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This cocoon is on a branch of our maple tree. We believe it to be from a cecropia moth but are open to other ideas!

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The cecropia moth cocoon from the Internet looks like yours!

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Habitats - Reading Comprehension: Read this story about habitats or ask your family to read it with you, then answer the questions. You may also color the page.

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Habitat Match Cards: Study the cards. Cut them out, mix them up. Then take the challenge of pairing the animals with their habitats again.

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Here's the cecropia moth, another pretty insect!

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I like the cheetahs in the savanna and the arctic foxes in the arctic. And guess what, they all have their own camouflage!  - Leighton

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I love birds like this.

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We caught this moment in the evening last summer. I was so neat to watch. It only took 20 minutes to have its wings stretched!

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That was funny! When he was at the wetlands when he saw the snake he went all like AHH ! EEK! -Leighton

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Do this fun lab about camouflage outside, "Early Bird Gets the Worm." You will need equal numbers of paper strips colored red, blue, green and brown, cut about 1/2" x 4", & colored pencils/crayons, to graph.

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This just in! A great food chain activity incl. work pages. Scroll down on its site for those.

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Park Shanghai by Iakov Kalinin

iridescent pigeons by Denis Omelchenko

pigeons city landscape by Maglara

pigeons flying city by F. Alzheimers , used under CC BY

spooked pigeons by F. Alzheimers , used under CC BY

blue sky by Elliot Brown , used under CC BY-SA

red tailed hawk soaring by Ferris Akel

pigeons eating crumbs by Victoria Zinchenko

old man pigeons by Garry Knight , used under CC BY-SA

pigeon in hand by schankz

Pigeons in Tarnów by Aktron , used under CC BY-SA

hawk in motion by Phoo Chan

hawk in the city by Gavin Nevill

hawk perched/hunting by jeremy Seto , used under CC BY-SA

hawk cliffs by Jodie Wilson , used under CC BY-SA

hawk superimposed over skyscraper by TheBrockenInaGlory , used under CC BY-SA

skyscraper by Andreas Øverland , used under CC BY-SA

pigeon skyline by Zero One , used under CC BY-SA

hawk pouncing city by EarnestTse

pigeon walking by petrovichlili

light tan squirrel by DesignFife , used under Public Domain

black cat by Ermolaev Alexander

chain links by ClkerFreeVectorImages , used under Public Domain

red house by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service , used under Public Domain

flipping over log by Hidden Villa's Science and Nature Video Series

city view of hill by Kevin Wong , used under CC BY-SA

caterpillar mini by Unsplash , used under Public Domain

lights-bugs by Leonid Eremeychuk

brick + butterfly by Leonora Enking , used under CC BY-SA

salamander by breki74 , used under CC BY-SA

salamander crawling by BrunoExplorations , used under CC BY

salamander crawling by PaddyDillon777 , used under CC BY

salamander by Vitalii Hulai

caterpillar by Didier Descouens , used under CC BY-SA

nest of blue eggs by Unsplash , used under Public Domain

rabbit by PublicDomainPictures , used under Public Domain

arizona/desert house by jessicakirsh

cityscape by Yoshikazu TAKADA , used under CC BY-SA

dead leaves by abramsdesign

fence lizard by Neil Lockhart

mouse sketch by chronicler

spider by Potapov Alexander

cricket sketch by United States Department of Agriculture , used under Public Domain

lunch leftovers by Aleks Melnik

sparrow sketch by Teagan White

swallowtail butterfly sketch by Essentials

ant sketch by Tropinina Olga

daddy long legs sketch by Pearson Scott Foresman

flower garden sketch by Gulnara Khadeeva

hawk sketch by Kerris Paul, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service , used under Public Domain

mole by Pearson Scott Foresman / papapishu , used under Public Domain

oak tree sketch by marijaka

beetle sketch by ClkerFreeVectorImages , used under Public Domain

cockroach sketch by evgdemidova

frog by frankes , used under Public Domain

parlsey plant by warszawianka

rotting log sketch by ClkerFreeVectorImages , used under Public Domain

salamander by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service , used under Public Domain

caterpillar by Kirsanov Valeriy Vladimirovich

earthworm sketch by Morphart Creation

garter snake sketch by The Popular Science Monthly , used under Public Domain

pillbug sketch by Eric Isselee

squirrel sketch by diana pryadieva

vegetable garden by dedMazay

Unit: red-tailed hawk by Robert L Kothenbeutel

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A good video explaining food chains.

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Food Chains for Kids: Food Webs, the Circle of Life, and the Flow of Energy - FreeSchool

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Food chains explained in more detail.

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This fun food chain game is easy to enjoy. Instructions included.

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This excellent food chain activity takes more work, but it's worth it. Instructions included.

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Found this during a vacation last year in a flower pot.

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My dad is working in Florida so we are isolating here. I saw this Portuguese Man O War washed up on the beach. It's actually four different creatures connected together.

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I found these in the apple tree.

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Here's a bird's nest we found in the wreath on our front door.

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Can you find the deer in this picture? We saw it on a field trip to Squaw Creek Nature Center last year. - Connor

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We saw this squirrel's nest way up in the tree in our backyard habitat!

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I found what looks like a cocoon in my back yard yesterday. Do you know if it is or not and what made it? It's about 1/2" wide by 1-1/2" long.

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Pic of Polyphemus moth! Pretty!

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Here is an amazing caterpillar we found in our backyard habitat.

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Animal Parents | Animals for Kids | Wild Animal Families

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Play this concentration game that matches baby mammals with their parents.

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12 Coolest Camouflage Animals and Insects

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Play Walk on the Wild Side! Cut out the game cards from the sides, tape the 2 board pieces together, brainstorm 7 or 8  T-F questions with answers on the back & cut them out. You'll need a die and tokens (candy, buttons). Have fun!

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Learn more about endangered & extinct animals.

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Try some Habitat math!

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Make an animal diorama.

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Found a deer carcass when out fishing & exploring the woods -Jonathan

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Can you spot the critter hiding in the woods?

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Wildflowers only found in spring...

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More spring flowers

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Ellie enjoyed doing the food chain and food web activities. Thanks so much.

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Food web activity

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Ethan and his family went for a walk on Grant Wood Trail near Hwy 13. Spotted a snake on the sidewalk.

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Frog eggs

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Tiny tadpole

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A big tadpole. Post if you know what different frogs would have tadpoles so tiny or this large. :)

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A small frog that we caught.

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A bigger frog - a leopard frog we think.

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Jasper with the biggest frog we caught. Who can tell us what kind it is? :)

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And Liesel with the giant frog.