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    OSTB 2021 Winning Titles Animal Homes Mary Holland Arbordale Publishing Take a home tour of selected bugs, birds, and mammals. Beautiful, full-page photos complement descriptions, materials, and uses of animals’ homes. A Spanish edition is available (Also in Spanish, Las casas de los…

  • En Garde! Animal Structures and What They Mean

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  • Animals Two by Two: I Wonder Why

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    Children who love both animals and a rousing game of I Spy will have fun with this book. To give kids practice identifying similarities and differences, the book starts by pairing easy-to-distinguish animals, such as…

  • Too cold? Observing animals in winter

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    With very cold weather settling into many areas, children’s outdoor time may be restricted due to temperature and wind chill limits set relative to the temperature ranges normally experienced in their area. ChildCare…

  • Bionic Animals ClassPack: Grades 3-5

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    Using Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons: 3-5: Using Children’s Books to Inspires STEM Learning in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of 28 students, are lesson-specific…

  • Responsible Use of Live Animals and Dissection in the Science Classroom

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  • How Do Ants Help the Plants and Animals of the Woods?

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  • Isopods—your favorite animal? Children are fascinated

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    What you call these small animals probably depends on where you grew up. Pillbug, sowbug, roly-poly, woodlice, potato bug, cochinilla, slater, and Armadillidium vulgare are some of the names I’ve heard for my favorite…

  • Farm: animals & a beginning understanding of hereditary

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    Figure 1 — Pie chart showing estimated proportions of different groups of organisms on Earth today, by numbers of species. If you were asked to name 10 animals, would an insect be one of them? Many of us, including…

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