It’s Time for Teaching Animal Adaptations!

Are you preparing to start your new science unit on animal adaptations? If so, you’ve come to the right place! The Teach Starter team has been hard at work creating loads of new resources to help you easily teach those Science standards!

From teaching presentations to worksheets and then onto card games to digital activities, we’ve got you covered…starting with a brand new Animal Adaptations Digital Learning Activity! Let’s take a look!

Drag, Drop, Click, and Type to Match Examples of Adaptations

This digital learning tool is the perfect summarizing activity for your students to use to review content at the end of your unit. It highlights key vocabulary, types of adaptations, and examples of structural, physiological, and behavioural adaptations. Build for Google Slides and Google Classroom; your students will complete various activities to demonstrate their learning, like…

• Matching Types of Animal Adaptations
• Identifying Examples of Behavioral, Physiological, and Structural Adaptations
• Sorting behavioral adaptations vs. structural adaptations
• Matching Adaptation related-academic vocabulary words (ex., Camouflage, mimicry, etc.)
• Writing sentences using academic vocabulary
• Identifying types of behavioral, physiological, and structural adaptations and how they benefit animals

Your resource download includes a whopping 15-slide digital interactive activity perfect for an independent study session or as a review assignment. 

Download Your Animal Adaptations Digital Learning Activity

This resource is available as an easy-to-use Google Slides file. To get your copy, click the download button. Make your copy, assign it to your students, and get them on the track toward learning today!

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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