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Strange and Unusual Animals: 8 Mini-Units on Rare Creatures & Habitats Set 2 to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
$8.00Add to CartDive Deep into the Extraordinary: Strange and Unusual Animals – Set 2! 🌍🦒👾
Ready to take your students on a journey to explore the most bizarre, fascinating, and rare creatures on Earth? Welcome to Set 2 of Strange and Unusual Animals Mini-Units! This sequel is packed with biodiversity that will leave your students (and maybe you!) completely fascinated.
This set features 8 comprehensive mini-units, each designed to introduce students to an animal that challenges the definition of “normal.” Forget lions and tigers; we’re talking about creatures with unique defenses, strange behaviors, and habitats that are off the beaten path.
🧬 What is a Mini-Unit?
Each of the 8 mini-units is a self-contained exploration into the lives of these uncommon species. They are packed with engaging information, vivid, colorful photos, and active learning opportunities to make science come to life! Students will dive deep into:
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What they look like: Discover their bizarre appearances and strange adaptations. 🦎
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Where they live (Habitat and Location): Follow them to unique ecosystems and global coordinates. 🗺️
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What they eat: Uncover unique diets and predatory strategies. 🌿
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Interesting, “strange” facts: The “weird and wonderful” details that make them unforgettable! 💡
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Interactions with humans: Are they helpful, dangerous, or elusive? 🏠
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Pets or Wild? Learn if these creatures have ever been domesticated (or if that’s even a good idea!). 🏡
🐊 Featured Animals in Set 2:
Meet the new “wild” cast that will spark curiosity:
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Assassin Bug (The silent, deadly hunter) 🎯
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Moloch (The thorny devil of the desert) 🌵
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Quetzal (The iridescent, sacred bird) ✨
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Sea Dragon (The master of ocean camouflage) 🌊
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Shoebill Stork (The ancient, powerful predator) 🕊️
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Armadillo (The tank-like digger) 🛡️
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Pangolin (The armored, walking pinecone) 🐉
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Echidna (The egg-laying, spiky mammal) 🐣
📝 What You’ll Love:
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Vibrant Visuals: Every page features high-quality, colorful photos that keep students interested and engaged. 📸
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Active Comprehension: Each animal study includes 2 student notebooking pages per creature, encouraging research, recording facts, and illustrating key concepts.
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Flexible Learning: Perfect for independent study, science centers, or a “Creature of the Week” feature in your classroom or homeschool. 🏠
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Comprehensive Animal Study: This set offers more than just facts; it provides holistic research opportunities into rare species. 🔬
✨ Keep the Adventure Going!
If your students fall in love with these rare creatures and haven’t already completed Set 1, get it now!
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Strange and Unusual Animals: 8 Mini-Units on Rare Creatures & Habitats to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
$8.00Add to Cart🐾 Discover the Extraordinary: Strange and Unusual Animals Mini-Units (Set 1) 🌍
Are you looking to spice up your science curriculum? Spark student curiosity and wonder with this deep dive into the world’s most peculiar creatures!
This comprehensive set features 8 mini-units designed to take students on a journey to meet animals they won’t find in a typical textbook. From the depths of the water to the heights of the rainforest canopy, your students will become experts on the “weird and wonderful.”
🧬 What’s Inside?
Each of the 8 mini-units is packed with engaging information and vibrant, colorful photos to keep young learners hooked. Students will explore:
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Physical Characteristics: What makes them look so unique? 🦎
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Habitats & Locations: Where in the world do they hide? 🗺️
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Dietary Habits: What’s on the menu for a Fossa or a Dugong? 🌿
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Human Interaction: Are they pets, or are they better left in the wild? 🏠
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Mind-Blowing Facts: The “strange” details that make these animals unforgettable! 💡
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Gharial (The long-snouted crocodilian)
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Dugong (The “sea cow” of the ocean)
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Capybara (The world’s largest, chillest rodent)
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Blue-Tongued Skink (A reptile with a colorful surprise)
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Axolotl (The smiling salamander)
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Aye-Aye (The mysterious primate of Madagascar)
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Elephant Shrew (Tiny, fast, and trunk-nosed)
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Fossa (The elusive predator of the forest)
📝 What You’ll Love:
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Vibrant Visuals: Real-life photos bring the science to life! 📸
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Active Learning: Every unit includes 2 notebooking pages per animal to test comprehension and encourage research.
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Extension Activities: Includes a “Taking it Further” section with creative suggestions for projects and deep-dives to keep the momentum going! 🚀
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Low Prep: Just print and go—perfect for science centers, independent study, or a “Creature of the Week” feature.
✨ Keep the Adventure Going!
If your students fall in love with these rare creatures, don’t stop here!
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This unit introduces several important concepts about heat energy including heat sources, temperature measurement, controlling heat through insulation and the importance of heat energy for living things. This unit will also explain how heat is transferred including convection, conduction and radiation.
The resource includes:
- – Student book
- – Quiz with answer key
- – Vocabulary cards with definitions
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Studying dinosaurs? Here are 12 picture and fact cards plus a worksheet for students to use as the report on each dinosaur!
Dinosaurs included: Spinosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Stegosaurus, Pteranodon, Velociraptor, Triceratops, Corythosaurus, Iguanodon, Diplodocus, Dimetrodon (not a true dinosaur but often covered in textbooks), Apatosaurus, Tyrannosaurus. -
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Studying fossils? With this fun activity, students will create a variety of ‘fossils’ while learning how to make observations, inferences and how to distinguish between the two!
Includes- Student and teacher pages:
– Student “how to” activity pages
– Student data worksheet
– Student critical thinking worksheet
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This elementary resource is designed to teach students about fossils. In this ‘Copy and Learn’ product, students will learn what fossils are made of, two types of fossils (body and trace) and how they form.
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In this resource, students will learn about living things, (plants and animals) and what they need to survive within their habitats. Students will investigate the dependence of plants on air, water, nutrients, and light. They will also learn about pollination and how many plants depend on animals for pollination and the dispersal of seeds. Students will learn about various animal habitats and how some animals change with the seasons.
This resource includes both student and teacher materials.
Number of Lessons – Depending on how you divide up and teach lesson segments, there will be 12 to 20 lessons of 30-45 minutes each. Science video links are included in the teacher materials.
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In this extended, interactive unit, students will learn all about scientists, what they do, the tools they use and science safety.
This is a LARGE unit. See description below for all that is included! Can be used as a notebooking unit.
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An engaging science unit teaching students about the properties of matter through hands-on and thought-provoking activities!
- Lesson 1: Matter (Define)
- Lesson 2: Solid, Liquid, Gas
- Lesson 3: Liquid Experiment
- Lesson 4: Solid Experiment
- Lesson 5: Gas Experiment
- Lesson 6: Liquid to Solid
- Lesson 7: Liquid to Gas
- Lesson 8: Irreversible Change
- Lesson 9: Reversible Change
- Lesson 10: Disassemble Change
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In this unit study, students will learn how 8 different animals (4 different habitats) use many of their body parts to live and survive. For each animal, students will be given a fact sheet, a short answer worksheet and a worksheet on which they will label and describe the specific body parts and how they are used.
Animals covered in this unit are:
– Desert Habitat: Camel, Fennec Fox
– Grasslands: Black-footed Ferret, Bison
– Tropical Rainforest: Sloth, Toucan
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A fun to create, Science mini-book teaching students how different animals use their body parts as tools to live and survive! Once students finish creating this 10 page mini-book, they will be able to give examples of how 7 animals use their body parts to get nourished, move within its environment and even stay protected from predators!
Animals included in this project are the cheetah, bat, loggerhead turtle, badger, kangaroo, deer and tundra swan. There is also a image of a wolf with showing various body parts often used to accomplish an animal’s survival.
Students will color, draw and write to complete the book.
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Students will love this hands-on resource designed to create a fun Mink Lapbook!
Includes Lapbooking instructions, templates to use as they record what they know or are learning about minks, (such as where they live, the types, size, predators, diet and more) and a lapbooking rubric.
Designed to use with multiple age / grade levels.
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Planning a study on the mink? Minks are dark-colored, semiaquatic, carnivorous mammals of the genera Neogale and Mustela and part of the family Mustelidae! If you are planning to have students study the mink, help them be creative by providing them with these pages to create a report on the mink.
When is a good time to introduce such a project? Perhaps when you are studying semiaquatic habitats or carnivorous mammals! This is a cross-curricular resource that will require students to research and learn about the life of a mink (science), record and write what they have learned (language arts) and complete map work (geography).
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Students will learn all about hedgehogs, their life, habitats, life cycle and more with these activities and worksheets!
They will learn about where they live (habitats) their life cycle, that they are mammals, omnivores, nocturnal and about hibernation! This unit includes informational text with questions, tracing and copy work, creative and expository writing, plus activities including mini-book creation, ‘cut and glue’, drawing and more. All designed for the 1st and 2nd grader in mind to help build vital language arts skills as well as geography and science knowledge.
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Sandhill Cranes are large birds that live in open habitats across North America. Students can use these pages to produce a beautiful report or project on these magnificent birds! Includes 5 notebooking pages (one with a North American map) and 1 coloring page.
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Students will love using these pages to create a report on the polar bear! Perfect to use during a study of the arctic region, tundra animals or as a cross-curricular unit that will have students reading, writing, completing map work (geography) and learning about the life of the polar bear (science).
Check out My Teaching Library’s article: Learning about the Polar Bear!
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This Arctic Animal Notebooking Bundle includes three products: Arctic Wolf, the Arctic Ground Squirrel and the Caribou. Each individual resource can be used when studying the arctic habitat, tundra animals or as a cross-curricular unit that will have students reading, writing, completing map work (geography) and learning about the lives of these animals (science).
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Students will love using these pages to create a report on caribou, also known as the reindeer! Perfect to use during a study of the arctic region, tundra animals or as a cross-curricular unit that will have students reading, writing, completing map work (geography) and learning about the life of the caribou (science).
Check out My Teaching Library’s article: Caribou or a Reindeer?
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Students will love using these pages to create a report on the Arctic wolf also known as the polar wolf! Perfect to use during a study of the arctic region, tundra animals or as a cross-curricular unit that will have students reading, writing, completing map work (geography) and learning about the life of the wolf (science).
Check out My Teaching Library’s article: Learning about the Arctic Wolf!
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Students will love using these pages to create a report on the cute, Arctic ground squirrel that lives in Alaska, Canada and Siberia! Perfect to use during a study of the arctic region, tundra animals or as a cross-curricular unit that will have students reading, writing, completing map work (geography) and learning about the life of this cute little squirrel (science).
Check out My Teaching Library’s article: Arctic Ground Squirrel
