This Grasslands Biome Library Lesson is a two-part lesson for Grades 3-6. Includes printable activity, recommended reads for students, and editable lesson plan.
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This Grasslands Biome Library Lesson is a two-part lesson for Grades 3-6. Includes printable activity, recommended reads for students, and editable lesson plan.
This Grasslands Biome Library Lesson is a two-part lesson for Grades 3-6. Includes printable activity, recommended reads for students, and editable lesson plan.

Grasslands Biome Library Lesson

$8.00

This Grasslands Biome Library Lesson is part of my Biomes series for libraries and classrooms. Students will learn the characteristics of grasslands, the four types of grasslands, find grasslands on a map, learn about grasslands animals, and more.

 

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FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS GRASSLANDS BIOME LIBRARY LIBRARY LESSON

  • Recommended for: Grades 3-6
  • Lesson Duration: 1-2 lessons (about 50 minutes total)
  • Formats: PPT or Google Slides + ability to open PDF documents
  • Editable: YES, all text is editable in all three formats

 

THIS GRASSLANDS BIOME LIBRARY LESSON INCLUDES:

  • 55-slide PPT + Google™ Slides library lesson presentation
  • List of 2 recommended grassland – themed book titles (1 page)
  • Scavenger Hunt Activity (2 pages)
  • Answer Key for Scavenger Hunt (1 page)
  • Prep, set up, tips (6 pages)
  • Detailed, pre-filled, editable lesson plan; includes CC, TEKS, and AASL Standards (2 pages)
  • Google™ Classroom Basics (4 pages, PDF)
  • Instructions on how to set up PPT and Google slide timings for digital bulletin boards

 

GRASSLANDS BIOME LIBRARY LESSON INCLUDES

  • Characteristics of grasslands
  • temperate grasslands and tropical grasslands
  • 4 types of grasslands – savanna, prairie, steppe, and outback
  • grasslands animals
  • grasslands plants and trees
  • Idioms: “having a field day” and “The Heartland”
  • vocabulary words: biome, aquatic, terrestrial, carnivorous, ecosystem, dust storm, rodent, prairie dog towns, drought, ton, migrate, steppe, prairie, savanna
  • Plants: yellow foxtail, baobab tree, acacia tree
  • Animals: bison, prairie dog, dingo, elephant, coyote, hawk, termites, wildebeest, Przewalski’s horse, ostrich, spotted hyena

 

GRASSLAND AREAS MENTIONED:

  • African Savanna
  • Great Plains (US and Canada)
  • Pampas (South America)
  • Eurasian Steppe
  • Australian Outback
  • Ural Mountains
  • Serengeti National Park

 

DIFFERENTIATED GRASSLANDS BIOME SCAVENGER HUNT

  • 2 versions + answer key
  • Version 1 – students color the icons and objects as they find them in the presentation slides
  • Version 2 – questions about the information in the slides + smaller images to find

 

RECOMMENDED READS

  • Includes picture books, fiction, nonfiction, and one poetry title
  • all have a theme of the grasslands biome, grasslands animals, and characteristics of grasslands
  • total of 24 titles
  • includes small images from the presentation
  • titles are editable, so you can customize the books included for your library
  • All titles were hand-selected by a veteran school librarian for quality, diversity, positive professional reviews, and currency.

 

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