Informational Text Activity Bundle Featuring 8 Amazing Animal Adaptations

Description

When you need enrichment for early finishers or emergency lesson plans, use standards based lessons that build critical thinking and scientific literacy skills without taking your curriculum off the rails. This set of 8 lesson plans includes 8 different adaptations or behaviors with multiple animals highlighted in each activity.

Each of these 8 lesson plans are designed to take 1 day to complete and are intended for grades 5-8. They are independent of curriculum but still address NGSS skills. Each lesson contains a 2 page informational text reading and a 1 or 2 page worksheet with analysis questions probing higher order thinking skills. Activities are provided as print-and-go PDFs and as editable Google Docs.

Included in this bundle:

1. Defense Masters

2. Extreme Survival

3. Animals that cooperate

4. Regeneration

5. Super Sensors

6. Parenting Styles

7. Animal Geniuses

8. Extreme Migrations