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Book Chapter | March 2018
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about animals. The probe is designed to find out what characteristics students use to determine whether an organism is classified as an animal. The probe…
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Animal Coloration: Activities on the Evolution of Concealment
NSTA Press Book | April 2008
A classic resource for teachers is now back in an updated edition! Using an inductive and experimental approach, Animal Coloration aims to increase students’ awareness of the ways wild organisms are adapted to their…
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Journal Article | March 2023
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Journal Article | April 2021
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Book Chapter | April 2008
In their study of animal coloration, the students will be “hiding” animals from themselves. If the students cannot easily spot a fish, they may assume that the fish will be overlooked by another fish or by a preying…
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Book Chapter | March 2009
Ethology—the study of animal behavior—combines the observational skills of a natural historian with modern insights from ecologists, geneticists, and especially evolutionary biologists. In this unit, students discover…
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Book Chapter | March 2009
In this unit, students explore hormonal regulation of insect development. Students look at fruit flies—Drosophila melanogaster—in various stages in their life cycles and expose larval flies to a range of concentrations…
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Book Chapter | January 2006
The magnetic force is strange and does not exist for neutral particles—only for charged particles, if those particles are moving. The direction of the force isn’t toward the magnetic field or away from the field but “…
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Book Chapter | February 2018
In this lesson, children will go on a nature walk to a local park (or around the school grounds) to observe and count the types of animals that live there and to learn about animals’ basic needs. In addition to the…
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Book Chapter | May 2019
The guiding question of this investigation is, How should we classify the unknown organisms? In this lesson, the goal is to figure out how to classify an unknown animal based on the type of food it eats and how the…
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Book Chapter | May 2019
This activity is about going for a walk to look for animals in the neighborhood. Encourage children to talk about how animals look, how they move, and what they eat and make a list on chart paper of all the animals they…
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What Does an Animal Eat?: I Wonder Why
NSTA Press Book | October 2012
Kids who want to know all about animals will find this book fascinating. What Does an Animal Eat? offers insights into two special aspects of hungry animals: how their teeth and beaks offer clues to what they eat and…
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Online Extra: I Wonder Why: Looking for Animals
Page | March 2020
Online Extra: I Wonder Why: Looking for Animals If you have purchased I Wonder Why: Looking for Animals, you can view the accompanying extra activity online. This resource is for your personal use only and is not to be redistributed. To view the online extra, please type in the second word on the very last page of I…
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Book Chapter | January 2006
Animations (rapidly changing sequences of drawn objects that simulate motion as in a movie) have been advocated for classroom use for years (Hall 1996), and there is good evidence to support the value of this practice.…
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Book Chapter | December 2016
In this lesson, students will come to understand the range and frequency of behaviors in which animals can engage, and how those might be affected by factors such as weather conditions or time. Disciplinary core ideas…
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