Grades 6 - 12 Lesson Plans
Lessons are divided into themes to correlate to environmental topics.
- Animals - These lesson plans encompass amphibians, birds, fish, insects, mammals and reptiles with instruction across multiple disciplines.
- Nature Study - These lessons incorporate multiple subject disciplines as an aid in exploring, discovering, and observing nature.
- Recycling and Conservation - These lessons look at the sustainable use of natural resources.
- Soils - These lesson plans focus on the composition, properties and conservation of this important resource.
- Water - These lessons examine wildlife within aquatic ecosystems.
Animal Lessons
Insects
- Insect Jeopardy (PDF) (32 KB)
Mammals
- Biology of Bats (PDF) (457 KB)
- Blind as a Bat (PDF) (82 KB)
- Marvelous Mammals Crossword Puzzle (PDF) (109 KB)
Wildlife
- Animal Class Fact Sheet and Records (PDF) (362 KB)
- Five Classes of Vertebrates (PDF) 474 KB
- New York State Endangered and Threatened Species Fact Sheet (PDF) (197 KB)
- Wildlife Conservation III (PDF) (756 KB)
- Wildlife Forensics (PDF) (675 KB)
Nature Study
- Sharp Eyes (PDF) (88 KB)
Recycling and Conservation Lessons
- Aluminum Can Challenge Worksheet (PDF) (98 KB)
- Recycle Every Day Word Search (PDF) (45 KB)
- Where is Away? (PDF) (693 KB)
Soils
- Erosion (PDF) (166 KB)
Water Lessons
- Aquatic Science (PDF) (917 KB)
- DEC Collect and Possess Regulations (PDF) (317 KB)
- Fish Language Puzzle (PDF) ( 257 KB)
- Maintaining Live Organisms Indoors Instructions (PDF) (207 KB)
- Macroinvertebrate Report Worksheet (PDF) (261 KB)
- Pond Dichotomous Key (PDF) (290 KB)
- Pond Ecology (PDF) (571 KB)
- Pond Life Word Search Puzzle (PDF) (116 KB)
- World of the Pond (PDF) (94 KB)
- World of the Pond Data Sheet (PDF) (50 KB)
