Lessons Attached to Species or Select Taxonomy

  • Setting up a Classroom Aquarium
    Setting up a classroom aquarium is one of the best things you can ever do to help get your students excited about the underwater world.  They'll be able to see fish, snails, and other invertebrates every day.
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  • Find the Ginkgo Tree
    In your local area, you will have students learn to use a nature journal to identify and sketch local flora.  In doing so they will learn key characteristics of identifying a plant and describing the habitat that it is found in.
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  • Introduction to the Fungi
    In this lesson, students will learn about their the diversity of fungi.  The major groups include the basidiomycota, ascomycota, and the zygomycota.
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  • Vampire Bat Lesson: Story of the Bloody Suckers (Grades 4-6)
    This lesson plan incorporates a video that NATURE did called BLOODY SUCKERS.  Its not only a lesson plan for vampire bats, but also explores animals such as leaches.  It poses the question, are these bloody suckers friend or foe?
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  • Insects Lesson Plan (K-8)
    This lesson is designed to integrate art and science as kids learn about insects.  In this lesson, students will learn about bugs and help create them with construction paper.
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  • The Five Teams of Microbes (Grade 3-6)
    Students are introduced to hte characteristics of microbes.
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