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Teaching Through Trade Books: Animal Parents and Their Offspring
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. The activities in this month’s column use text-based materials, media, and role-playing activities to help students understand how animal behavior helps…
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Exploring the Science of Less-Familiar Forms of Animal "Flight"
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Examine the physics and adaptive changes that allow animals to fall, parachute, and glide.
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Editor's Note: Animals and the Capacity to Care (September 2007)
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While the study of animals can serve to motivate, it can also present difficulties. Some animals are just too hard to study through inquiry. The animals may be too large or small, too distant, or too dangerous to bring…
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Animal Coloration: Activities on the Evolution of Concealment (e-book)
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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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Scope on Safety: Responsible use of live animals in the classroom
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Keeping live animals in the classroom or laboratory makes science come alive for students. The use of animals in the classroom or laboratory is highly encouraged, providing appropriate care and safety are addressed.…
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Career of the Month: An Interview with Animal Nutritionist Mark Edwards
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As an animal nutritionist with the Zoological Society of San Diego, Mark Edwards loves being part of a unique program that strives to provide world-class, science-based care for animals. The experience he brings to his…
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Science 101: How do animals communicate underwater?
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Well, they often use hand signals, such as the “OK” sign, and sometimes they write on message boards. So much for how SCUBA divers (classified as animals) communicate! Other than the authors’ knowledge of sound waves…
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Tried and True: The romance of the atoms—Animated atomic attractions
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Since the formation of atomic bonds is active, the authors sought a way of learning through drama or kinetic activity. To achieve this goal, they developed an activity called Romance of the Atoms. The activity requires…
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Animals Two by Two: I Wonder Why (e-book)
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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…
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