In this short video, students will learn how female loggerhead sea turtles make their way to beaches all along the Atlantic Ocean to lay their eggs.

In this short video, students join Emily and Dr. Bronwyn Williams from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences as they head to three different North Carolina locations to explore the world of crayfish!

In this short video, students learn about seashells and the creatures that use them on the coast of North Carolina.

In this short video, students learn about the butterfly life cycle and how they can help protect and take care of butterflies and moths in their own neighborhood.

In this lesson, students learn about how chickens hatch from eggs. They will then use clay to create models of eggs, hatchings, and chicks.

Students will research Penguins with the guidance of the teacher.What do they eat, where do they live, how do they look, are there different kinds, and their lifecycle.

Students will study Polar Bears:Where do they live?What are their body characteristics?What do they eat?Their lifecycle...How are they different from other bears? (black, brown, pandas)

The resource is a mutli-day hyperdoc to use as a whole unit of study on Saving the Sea Turtles. The unit includes ideas for incorporating opinion writing on why/how we can help and save the sea turtles. The unit includes making sea turtle bracelets to sell to benefit the North Carolina ea Turtle Aquarium.

After Reading “The Best Nest”, by Mueller and Neidigh, students are asked to build a nest that will keep a bird and 3 eggs safe.  Nest must hold a bird and 3 plastic eggs and balance on tree branch. 

This is additional curriculum for the Untamed Science video series created in a partnership between the North Carolina Zoo and videographer Rob Nelson. You are meant to watch the original video about Polar Bears, and then open the PDF resource below to learn about their conservation and become a Species Survival Coordinator for these vulnerable bears!

Students will observe physical and behavioral traits of a "mystery organism" to discover that all offspring do not resemble their parents. Students will observe the organism and draw, label, and write about its habitat. Supplemental resources for this lesson can be found as separate entries in the collection. They are identified as "What Will I Be When I Grow Up?: Name of Resource."

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "What Will I Be When I Grow Up?" It is a student handout that students will use for documenting the changes they observe as the organism goes through its life cycle.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "What Will I Be When I Grow Up?" It is a performance task that can be used to assess student understanding of the concepts addressed in the lesson. Students are asked to create a card sort to illustrate and identify each stage in the life cycle of an assigned organism and compare this organism's life cycle with that of a different organism being studied in class.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "What Will I Be When I Grow Up?" It is a series of images showing the three stages in the life cycle of a moth.

In this worksheet activity, students are tasked with matching three adult cat species with three baby cats.