Polar Bears - Fun Facts About Polar Bears PowerPoint. Polar bear facts including information on polar bear size, adaptations, what polar bears eat, cubs, global warming, the environment, etc. Informational text for reading practice. Animated clips make it more engaging to young readers. Includes three activities! Activity 1 - Read Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do You Hear? By Eric Carle. Click on the sound icons and identify the everyday sound. Name the sound and draw a picture. Activity 2 - Discuss camouflage. Find multicolored toothpicks thrown in the grass...why is it harder to find the green ones? Activity 3 - True False facts about the polar bear. The last slide has book suggestions for further reading for literacy and math development, such as Polar Bears Past Bedtime. Fun to use around the Christmas season or during the winter months! - HappyEdugator

Walrus Facts and information all about walruses. If you are studying arctic animals, introduce your students to walruses with this PowerPoint presentation about these amazing marine mammals. Includes slides on: What is a walrus? Physical features - with a link to a video on walrus sounds Flippers Skin Tusks Whiskers Diet Life Expectancy Reproduction Range Population Behavior Threats - Natural Predators Threats - Climate Change Threats - Ship Traffic and Oil Spills 21 slides of informational text on walruses. - HappyEdugator

Interdependence of Living Things PowerPoint. Food chain and the interdependence of living things. Includes terms: producers, consumers, decomposers, herbivores, carnivores,omnivores, detritivores, food chains, abiotic and biotic factors. 18 slides. - HappyEdugator ©2016 HappyEdugator.

Penguins - Fun Facts About Penguins PowerPoint. All about penguins...are you using a penguin theme in your classroom? Need to read more nonfiction? Informational text for reading practice. Learn about penguins this winter! Fun facts about the life of a penguin...a study of different kinds of penguins, which can be used to introduce a unit on penguins to engage students and grab their attention. Good for building background knowledge for reading books with penguins, like Mr. Popper's Penguins, Tacky the Penguin, or Penguin Chick. Fun to use during the Christmas season or in the winter months. Editable for classroom use. 18 slides with animated graphics. - HappyEdugator Content Alert - Includes a slide on the African penguin, also called the "Jackass" penguin because it sounds like a donkey. Some classes may giggle just a bit too much, so it is editable if you wish to edit it out. :)

Bald Eagles - Fun Facts About Eagles PowerPoint. Learn about bald eagles! This American Bald Eagle PowerPoint has interesting and fun facts about the life of an eagle. Students will learn about two subspecies of bald eagles, and engaging facts about eagle characteristics, abilities, and behavior. They will discover eagle habitat, eagle adaptations, and how they raise their young. Informational text can be used to introduce or supplement a forest theme unit or a unit about the zoo, eagles, or American symbols and animals. Engage students and grab their attention, or build background knowledge for reading books with eagles. Includes links to websites about eagle sounds, short videos all about eagles, and the DC Eagle Cam. Students will enjoy studying about bald eagles around patriotic holidays and events, since the bald eagle is the national bird of the U.S.A. Great summer activity as well, or use in a summer camp around the 4th of July. - HappyEdugator

Winter Word Wall - Also Winter Word Sort. A set of 150 cards that have a theme of winter, cold, and staying warm. 75 cards are the words in uppercase letters with a winter background design. 75 cards are the same words in lowercase letters on photo background of the word. May also be used as a matching game or concentration. Can be printed out on cardstock and laminated for future use. The cards can be used as a classroom word wall, a winter word of the day, or as a word sort. Students can sort the words into different categories such as things you wear, things you do, weather, etc. Words can be used to develop vocabulary for reading fluency, or to give students ideas for writing. Blank template for adding your own words included. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

The Great Kapok Tree Rainforest Unit and Resources. Rainforest activities go with the book The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry. 24 pages includes features of the rainforest, useful websites, art projects, vocabulary, main idea and summarizing activity and graphic organizer, fun facts about the kapok tree, rainforest animals, how can I save the rainforest sheet, chocalate cocoa recipe, math activity, science activity making a terrarium, geography sheet, layers of the rainforest, why rainforests are important and why they are being destroyed, along with a rainforest word search puzzle. Good for Earth Day, too. Cover page includes a bookmark "Reading About the Rainforest." - HappyEdugator

Genetics PowerPoint explaining the essential vocabulary and terms for students in a four week unit of study. Includes quick definitions that are easy to remember for each of the four weeks, full definitions with related pictures for discussion, and a quick definition study guide of all the terms which you can print out and give to students. Perfect support for your middle school life science units on cell division and heredity. Includes 44 terms listed here: Genetics Mendel Heredity Genes Chromosomes Alleles Punnett Square Genotype Phenotype Carrier Trait Law of independent assortment Law of segregation Crossing over Diploid Haploid Egg Gamete Genetic recombination Sex chromosomes Nucleotides Sperm Dominant trait Recessive trait Heterozygous Homozygous Nondisjunction Hybrid Purebred Fertilization Mitosis Meiosis Probability Mutation DNA replication Sex-linked disorders Inbreeding Incomplete dominance Co-dominance Selective breeding Clone Hybridization Pedigree ©2016 HappyEdugator.