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Life Beyond the Fifty Yard Line. An ecological look at our back yard. This activity takes an in depth look at micro ecosystems near the school. I start right away by going outside where each group is assigned a study area... A long term project.

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Develop personal connections to Nature through plant drawings, scientific observations, sense surveys and journal writings. Four activities are used to encourage students during field trips in a natural setting. You only really need one hour! Practice activities ahead of time in your classroom. This acquaints students with the techniques and purposes of each activity.

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Create a Field Guide of Local Plants. This activity will help students answer questions about the types of vegetation which are growing around them and help them develop plant identification and classification skills. Plant specimens are pressed, dried and then glued or sewn onto durable pieces of paper.

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Who Dirtied The Water/Clean Water: Is It Drinkable? Asks/ answers the questions: Who is responsible for pollution of water resources and the subsequent clean up? What are some of the most effective ways to clean up dirty water? An ongoing project involving water filtration activity

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The Water Cycle. Students build a terrarium and observe, record activity. Students prepare terrariums for initial observations and use terrariums to connect concepts of precipitation, condensation, and evaporation into a unified water cycle. Learning prerequisites are listed at the site.

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Regional Climates Lesson Objectives: To learn how to relate to and understand maps. To learn about climates in other areas .

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Why aren't all fish alike? keywords: ecosystem, niche,

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Rain Forest Animals You can also create a corner of the rain forest in your classroom. For the activity go to http://ericir.syr.edu/Projects/Newton/14/ rainforestanimal08.html#activity keywords: ecosystems, adaptations, symbiotic

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Equator. What is life like for animals, plants, and people at the African equator? For activities to go with this try http://ericir.syr.edu/Projects /Newton/13/lessons/equat.html#4 habitats

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Wetlands Site. Students learn why wetlands are important, what type of wildlife lives in wetlands, and why people drain or fill them in. Activity go to http://ericir.syr.edu/Projects/Newton /14/wetlands13.html#activity insects soil

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Great Bug Hunt Examine the insects that live in a nearby pond or stream. (Note: This activity should be done before the first frost of fall or after spring thaw.) keywords: interactions, ecosystems, insects,

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Ducks Unlimited A study of waterfowl habitats across Canada and environmental matters affecting them. Good for student research. Site is a paragraph describing the habitats and environmental concerns re: waterfowl for each area of Canada. Teachers can find free lesson plans to order online by clicking on "Education" found in the upper left frame.

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The Evergreen Project. Biomes of the world. Ecosystems categories, rainforest, tundra, taiga, temperate, grasslands. fresh water ecosystems, marine ecosystems and link to Biology of plants, plant parts.

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Environment Canada This site leads to many areas concerning ecosystems. Good student research site.

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Environment Canada Information Products and Services page. Links to Environment Canada publications.

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Audubon Online - Birds, Birds, Birds. National Audubon Society Site. Classroom projects added monthly. Lesson plans included. Teachers must click on "Audubon at Home" and then "Education" to find Lesson Plans

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Franklin Institute Neighborhoods - Ecosystems, Biomes, and Habitats. This is a GREAT teacher resource page. Many links.Rocks and Minerals.

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University of Guelph Canadian Site! Interactive website to promote awareness of Canada's plant and animal resources. Shows divisions of aquatic life and their habitats. Excellent site.

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Students learn that animals have basic needs and different kinds of homes. Good basic concept lesson with a list of resources as follow up. Each student chooses an animal, draws it in its habitat. Or divide your class into teams to make murals of a forest, ocean, desert, or pond habitats. Good links to follow-up activities

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To understand how seasonal changes affect animals. Animals live in a variety of habitats and change with the seasons. KEYWORDS: behavioral characteristics, adaptation, seasonal changes, hibernation, migration, animals in winter, winter activity

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Students learn to understand the basic needs of all animals including: food, water, shelter, food chains. A bird feeder is made.

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Students learn to understand the basic concept of habitat and how habitats can be preserved. Originally written for grade 3 can be adapted. Follow with discussion of some of the normal changes in environment and illustrate how changing the environment changes the life forms present in the environment at http://www.utm.edu/departments /ed/cece/third/3I1.shtml

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Students learn to understand the means and characteristics of animal adaptation by making a class bulletin board. Originally designed for grade 4, can be adapted to grade 6.

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Students learn to understand the relationships between the individual and the environment.

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Students learn to understand the relationship among ocean food chains. animals predator prey

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Students will explain the importance of the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle, draw and label a diagram of the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle. Originally designed for grade 5, can be adapted??

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Students will list some important plants within the local community or general area and describe their habitat, list some animals found within the local community and describe their habitat. Originally designed for grade 5, can be adapted.keywords: food webs, food chains, adaptations

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Students learn to understand the relationship among population size, life-style and consumption of natural resources. ecosystems pollution environment plant growth

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Students learn to understand the factors which influence the stability of ecosystems. Designed for grade 6, can be adapted.

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Students learn to understand the role of predators in an ecosystem. Herbivores, Carnivores, Omnivores

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Students learn to understand the relationships of organisms in ecosystems. Very good vocabulary list given.

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Identify the basic needs of animals. Become familiar with the animals and plants that live in forest, desert, underground (worms) and prairie habitats. Animal habitats. Excellent book lists, good teacher background.

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Organize animals according to what they eat. Compare the teeth of plant eaters and meat eaters. Also a lesson on how human's can destroy habitats. herbivore omnivore carnivore

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Designed for grade 2 can be adapted. This is the beginning of an entire unit of lessons! Students see the affect of direct and angled sunlight on the seasons, describe some results of warming soil and air in spring and predict the changes in buds when twigs are placed in water. They taste a product of tree sap and describe its making. Ideal for teaching daily and seasonal cycles, but many good ideas for grade 4 animal habitats.

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Mini-unit: energy moves through a food chain; models of food chains in a pond ecosystem; how environmental changes might affect a pond ecosystem. Written as a grade 3 unit this would work well in grade 7 Interactions within Ecosystems. Excellent bibliographies and teachers' resource info included.

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The purpose of this exercise is to increase students' awareness of the conditions which affect wolf populations (food chain, survival, adaptations).

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This activity with earthworms will show students an organism that lives in a dark, cool, wet place and how this organism has special segmented body parts which enable it to live in its environment.

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Life Cycle of the Pacific Salmon: This activity helps students to understand the five life cycle forms of Pacific salmon.

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The One Inch Square Project - Students develop their observational skills while examining a small part of nature. Students to develop their skills of observation in a natural setting

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Meet a Tree - Students use their senses, other than sight, to make observations about a tree.This site also provides students with access to Glacie National Parks electronic field trip site, which has some really good lesson plans for all grades on wildlife/aquatics etc.

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Wolf Habitats - Students draw pictures of human and wolf homes, comparing basic needs.

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30 Good Reasons for Trees - Students research reasons why trees are good for the environment, and create a book with their findings.

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Adapting to the Land - Students investigate how people adapt to the various environments in which they live.

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Amazon Alphabet - Students investigate and classify the different animals that live in the Amazon rainforest habitat, then use this information to create a book.

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Virtual Exhibit on Canada's Biodiversity Plenty of pictures and interesting features. Provided by Gov. of Canada. Mainly on insects.

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Why is the Sea Salty? Properties Of Liquids It is a simple experiment as to why the oceans are salty, and shows how the evaporation of water leaves behind salt, and how even though it appears that the salt disappears into the water, it is in fact still there.

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CREATING SAND DUNES: This experience will also demonstrate to students the importance of proper dune management for conservation purposes. Students will be able to explain how sand dunes are formed. Students will be able to explain the different circumstances that effect the movement of or formation of sand dunes.

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TERRARIUMS: Students construct their own terrariums and keep daily records of what is going on in their terrarium environments. Students get to demonstrate their findings about their terrariums to the class. This activity demonstrates the importance of plants in the world by creating a bottle terrarium, students will observe and note processes in the closed system.

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Where Plants & Animals Live. Students state orally how plants and animals live, describe the different places plants and animals live & identify the relationship between plants and animals.They then produce a book to demonstrate their knowledge.

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A Local Ecosystem. Students will understand the concept that living things interact with nonliving things and with one another to meet their needs, forming an ecosystem.

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SALMON HOMING INSTINCTS. Students will learn about the habitat of a salmon. They experience first hand what it is like to be a returning salmon attempting to find its home by smell.

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Where's the statue? Simulation to show what happens to materials that are repeatedly exposed to acid rain.

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Getting your hands on the environment- extension of mining your own business rocks
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The problem with plants Keywords: ph, plants acid rain, pollution

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Behaviour of mealworms: students will observe mealworms in the classroom and carry out investigations to test predictions.

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Great ideas for Conservation. Research and information provided for students to learn about our environment and world. Other links are provided with activities, e.g. Schools for a Living Planet, www.wwf.ca
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LEARNING ABOUT THE ARCTIC: students will read the information provided to start a research project about how global warming and climate change will affect the species of the Arctic.

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Zoo Animals -- For Grades One and Two: Students will take part in 6 activities to explore the similarities and differences of animals as well as needs of animals. Some of the lessons could be adapted to grade 4 animal habitats as well.

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A BLANKET OF SNOW show how snow effects a forest

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Biruté Galdikas: World's Foremost Authority on Orangutans
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THE WORLD OF THE ORANGUTAN observing an animal in it's habitat
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ARE WE LOSING THE LOON?:This is an article that looks at how human behaviour and environmental pollutants are threatening the loon.

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ALIVE IN THE ARCTIC
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CANADA'S LAKES AND WETLANDS - WET 'N' WILD: Provides information about Canadian Wetlands.

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The Forest Explorers: a Variety of Activities adaptations,forestry, conservation

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The Forest Explorers: a Variety of Activities

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DESIGNER ANIMAL - ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS
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On The Track of Science Keywords: adaptation, tracks

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PREDATOR/PREY RELATIONSHIPS IN THE FOOD CHAIN A Student Activity to review predator and prey relationships and the concept of producer/consumer as it relates to the food chain.- ELEMENTS Article June 2004
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ARACHNOPHOBIA: NOT IN MY CLASS! Spiders can be found in almost all environments. Teachers can capitalize on student familiarity with this special group of Arthropods called Arachnida to study Spiders can be used as a central theme for an integrated unit of study. Planning this unit to coincide with fall seasonal celebrations that feature spiders can serve to heighten student interest. ELEMENTS Article September 2005
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BOOK REVIEWS: BATS AND OTTERS Otters covers both sea and river otters and includes their body structure, habitat, food, habits, life cycle including young, and adaptations for their way of life. Bats covers both megabats and microbats and describes their habitats and homes, hibernation and migration, body structures, their use of sight and sound to navigate and find food, their movement, food, life cycle, and protection. ELEMENTS Article November 2005
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ON BECOMING ECOLOGICALLY AWARE Activities to Promote Ecological Awareness including suggested; Non-Fiction and Picture Book Print Resources plus Internet Resources - ELEMENTS Article March 2006 Pg 1,2
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Book Review - Gross Universe Your Guide to All Disgusting Things Under the Sun. Can you stomach this article?First published in ELEMENTS January 2007
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Fun Facts about Flirting Among Animals (Just in time for Valentine’s day) - Animals have interesting mating habits, and there are as many different mating habits as there are kinds of animals. Here’s just a few fun facts, just in time for Valentine’s Day! First published in the ELEMENTS Jan. 2008
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Pear Breeding: Naming a new pear in Southern Ontario. How does a new variety of fruit get its name? With lots of help, it seems! Provided by Agri-Food Ontario. First published in the March Elements 2008
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Elements Book Review: Bugs Up Close. This beautifully illustrated offers an eye-popping look at the world of bugs which will engage your students. By Cathy VanderVliet. First published in the June Elements 2008