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Teacher Feature: Animals and Ecosystems
Animals and Ecosystems
Elephants and Africa, alligators and the swampy Everglades, polar bears and the Arctic — some creatures immediately bring to mind the places where they live. Explore animal ecosystems with these featured video clips, lesson plans, discussion guide, and activities.
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Discussion Guide
Explore the myriad ways animals shape and adapt to their ecosystems with this look at anteaters, polar bears, meerkats, scorpions, coral, and jellyfish.
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Grade 3-4 Lesson Plan
Investigate how ant behavior and the shelters these insects build vary depending on the environment in which they live.
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Grade 6-8 Lesson Plan
From large ears to wrinkled skin, examine the features that allow elephants to live in some of the world's hottest regions.
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Grade 9-12 Lesson Plan
What happens when an animal's environment changes drastically? Research the mammoth and other Ice Age mammals.
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Student Activities
African Elephants
An image of an elephant cow and calf in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, Africa, for use in presentations
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Animal Dwellings
A word merge challenge to separate animals from their environments
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Video Clips
The Savannah
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Mammals on the Arctic's Ice Platform: Caribou, Polar Bear, and Walrus
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Meerkats Adapt to the Desert Biome
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Black Scorpions
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Coral Ecosystems
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Jeff Corwin Experience: Amphibians DVD


What allows these cold-blooded vertebrates to live in water and on land? Examine many different species of amphibians, including salamanders in Florida, the Bufo marinus toad in California, the monkey frog in the Amazon, and the red-eyed tree frog and the blue jean frog in Costa Rica.

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