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This Nature of Teaching lesson plan teaches students about the endangered eastern hellbender and the importance of conserving it. The hellbender is North America's largest salamander, growing up to 2 feet long. It is ...
The Great Clearcut Controversy
Supplementary Material for FNR-549-W -- 23 MB zip file - NOTE: file will download immediately
In this inquiry-based teaching unit, st...
The Nature of Teaching Unit 1: Animal Diversity and Tracking
This Unit includes five lesson plans: Animal Tracks, Scent Stations, Indoor Track Casting, Outdoor Track Casting and Animal Tracking. On the Nature of Teaching website teachers can find free lesson plans, printables, pos...
The Nature of Teaching, Unit 2: Mammal Food Webs
Mammal Food Webs is one unit in a series available from The Nature of Teaching Web site http://www.ag.purdue.edu/extension/nature/—the place to g...
The Nature of Teaching, Unit 3: Reptiles, Amphibians, and the Scientific Method
This 22-page PDF is a teaching unit in the Nature of Teaching series that includes three lessons. After finishing these lessons, students will be able to:
1) identify the differences and similarities between amphibian...
The Nature of Teaching: Coloration Exploration
This 22-page PDF is a unit in the Nature of Teaching series. A lesson and classroom activities for teachers of students through grade five help students understand how animals change colors to survive in their environmen...
The Nature of Teaching: Common Indiana Mammals
Mammals play an integral role in many habitats. Knowing more about these intriguing animals can help us enjoy and appreciate the diversity of wildlife around us.
These natural history cards (72 pages) can be used to i...
The Nature of Teaching: Discovering the Watershed
This 23-page PDF is a unit in the Nature of Teaching series. A lesson and classroom activities for teachers and students through grade five introduce students to watersheds and why they are important to a healthy ecosyst...
The Nature of Teaching: Eco-llapse Lesson Plan
This 15-page PDF is a teaching lesson plan in the Nature of Teaching series. After finishing the lessons, students will be able to:
1) understand the different proportions of producers, primary consumers, and secondar...
The Nature of Teaching: Food Waste and the Environment
This unit of three lessons highlights the effects of food waste on water quality, climate change, and wildlife. In addition to a lesson overview and rundown of teacher materials, the unit includes three lessons: ''Foo...
The Nature of Teaching: Food Waste Solutions
This unit of two lessons teaches students reasons and solutions for food waste at school and home. In addition to a lesson overview and rundown of teacher materials, the unit includes two lessons: ''Food Waste Solutio...
The Nature of Teaching: Tooth Sleuth poster
A Tooth Sleuth knows you can tell what an animal eats just by looking at its teeth. Some teeth tear, some grind, and some crush food. This printable full-color PDF, 20 x 28-inch poster describes different kinds of animal...
The Nature of Teaching: Unit 4, Mammals and Ecosystems
This 6-page PDF is a teaching Unit 4 in the Nature of Teaching series. The 10 days worth of activities are aimed at grades kindergarten through five. After finishing the lessons, students will be able to: 1) define "mamm...
The Nature of Teaching: Unit 5, Ashes to Ashes: We All Grow Up
This 23-page PDF is teaching Unit 5 in the Nature of Teaching series. Two lessons and classroom activities for teachers of students kindergarten through grade five describe how an ecosystem is constantly changing and wha...
The Scientific Process of Conservation Biology: Analyze, Design, Debate
Conservation biology is considered by some to be a "crisis discipline." Decisions within the field must often be made quickly, sometimes without enough time to gather all of the data one would ideally have, and they c...
