Students use critical literacy skills to understand the concept of perspective and to then create a diary for an animal they research with a partner.
This NASA initiative covers a wide range of topics including weather, climate, atmosphere, water, energy, plants, and animals.
National Geographic Young Explorer is a magazine designed specifically for kindergarten and first grade students. Children can listen to the magazine being read to them as they follow along with the highlighted text.
Nature Companion is a free app and website that provides students with interesting and easy-to-understand information about plants, trees, birds, animals, insects, reptiles, and amphibians found in Canada’s four western provinces.
Each short description includes colourful photographs and a Did you know? section with fun facts about each species. Scroll through the colourful photographs and short descriptions to find out more about nature in your schoolyard or community. The tool is available on or offline and is a great way to connect kids with nature.
Students take a walk on the wild side when they research an animal and create a scavenger hunt activity for their classmates.
Using breathtaking photographs this virtual tour from the National Wildlife Federation takes students through the world as they learn about beautiful animals while also exploring ways to protect and conserve wildlife.
This virtual tour includes 5 activities and more nature activities to explore.
What goes into each reading adventure pack?
Parent information sheet with an introductory note that you can personalize, instructions about how to use the packet, and tips for sharing fiction and nonfiction books with children.
Two books: one fiction and one nonfiction, selected by Reading Rockets for high quality and wide availability in school libraries
Creativity Activity: a hands-on craft project
Imagination Activity: encourages imaginative play, writing, or drawing
Get Real Activity: focuses on real-world experiences for parent and child
Bookmark: lists the featured titles and alternative titles
The Reading Rockets reading adventure packs contain the instructions, activities, and bookmarks for you to download and print, for free.
K-3 all subjects!
The Reid Park Zoo site offers webcam experiences with a variety of animals, plus lots of information for that animal lover in your midst!
This resource includes a downloadable board game that allows students to explore exotic species—how they can impact natural areas and how our actions affect their control and spread.
Prior to playing the game, groups of students are provided with a ‘Backgrounder’ that explains the term exotic and introduces the important issues to consider. Each group develops a concept map based on their discussion that will contribute to a class map.
In playing the game students roll dice and move across the game board toward the Great Lakes. They earn points at various ‘stops’ by correctly answering questions related to invasive species. Game card questions provide information on a range of important aspects related to the introduction, impact and control of exotics. The goal is to collect the most points by the time all players have reached the finish line/square or time expires.
Access the game board at this link: https://resources4rethinking.ca/media/RivalForSurvivalGameboard.pdf
Also check out "Don't Stop for Hitchhikers", a supplementary activity where students simulate a lake ecosystem by taking on the role of its inhabitants. Students assume the identities of both native and non-native species to physically demonstrate what occurs to the habitat and its resources as exotic plants and animals are introduced into the environment. Through the use of props and a written script, students learn the means by which non-native species enter freshwater systems, how they negatively affect the environment and how they can be stopped. Access this activity here: https://seagrant.sunysb.edu/greatlakes-edu/pdfs/AIS/DontStopForHitchhikers.pdf
Science assessment rubrics for every grade from Grade 1-9, for each unit.
This resource includes 14 interactive PowerPoint lessons designed to teach students about the Diversity of Living Things. The bundle is complete with discussion questions, videos, activities, and an exciting final Kahoot to help students to test their knowledge. Powerpoint lessons can be completed independently or synchronously.
Check out these 19 categories of great science podcasts that you can listen to with kids. Many of the categories have a number of podcasts within. Topics include oceans, dinosaurs, light, sound, space, senses, animals , plants and much, much more!
Did you know that there’s a listening app with ONLY content for kids?! It’s called Kids Listen, and it features a playlist curated especially for educational shows! Check it out at https://app.kidslisten.org, or as an Apple or Google Play app. What a great way to let your kids discover what they love.
From something as small and complex as a chromosome to something as seemingly simple as the weather, sex determination systems vary significantly across the animal kingdom. Biologist and teacher Aaron Reedy shows us the amazing differences between species when it comes to determination of gender. A quiz, thought provoking question, and links for further study are provided to create a lesson around the 6-minute video. Educators may use the platform to easily "Flip" or create their own lesson for use with their students of any age or level.
Readworks has tremendous resources to keep your children reading over the summer with their Summer Reading Program.
Find resources for Grade 1 through to high school, including both fiction and non-fiction articles for enjoyable summer reading. All articles are accompanied by an answer packet to extend the learning.
Just sign up for an account to access the resources for summer reading. Check out the sign up details and see what’s available at https://about.readworks.org/share-families.html.
Meet the rescued and rehabilitated sea otters at the Vancouver Aquarium, and understand why these adorable mammals are vital to the ecosystem. Learn what you can do in your everyday life to make a difference for wild sea otters, and how they nearly disappeared from southern North America thanks to their incredible fur. Be warned: incredible cuteness up ahead.
This course, designed for students in grades 5-8, covers core areas of sustainability education: global resources, protecting biodiversity, impacting climate change, and the intersection with human health.
After taking Sustainability Foundations: Plants, Animals, and Our World, students will walk away with an understanding that every choice we make impacts others. Learners will explore the interconnectedness of environmental systems and how to make informed decisions to improve the health of those systems.
Plants, Animals and Our World covers topics like human health, climate change, global resource constraints, and biodiversity. This course will use science and social studies content to build an understanding that we are all responsible for our planet.
Sun West School Division: Access this EVERFI course through your clever account.
Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean -- and shocking stats about its rapid decline -- as she makes her TED Prize wish: that we will join her in protecting the vital blue heart of the planet. Sylvia Earle has been at the frontier of deep ocean exploration for four decades. She's led more than 50 undersea expeditions, and she's been an equally tireless advocate for our oceans and the creatures who live in them. A quiz, thought provoking question, and links for further study are provided to create a lesson around the 18-minute video. Educators may use the platform to easily "Flip" or create their own lesson for use with their students of any age or level.
Different species often depend on one another. David Gonzales describes the remarkable relationship of the Clark's nutcracker and the whitebark pine, to illustrate the interdependency known as symbiosis. A quiz, thought provoking question, and links for further study are provided to create a lesson around the 2-minute video. Educators may use the platform to easily "Flip" or create their own lesson for use with their students of any age or level.
This extensive list of virtual field trips allows you to explore different parts of the world, see all kinds of animals in action, visit a wide variety of places in the US and explore outer space! All of the videos are in 360 so you can look all around you!
Geared towards students in grade 3-5, this virtual field trip from the American Museum of Natural History explores how animals adapt to their environments in order to survive.
This field trip includes a teachers guide, student worksheets and extension activities.