Nocturnal Animal Research Project

Do you want to include a fun October project in your already packed curriculum? This resource is perfect for the upper elementary classroom. Students will choose a nocturnal animal to research. Depending on the ability levels in your class, students should be able to do the majority of this project with little guidance. A few of my students needed a little bit more guidance than others, but all of my students were able to complete the project.

This resource is NOT editable.

Included in this engaging resource:

• Teacher Suggestion Page
• Student Project Cover Page
• Bibliography Pages
• Research Project Checklist (to help students learn independence and keep track of due dates)
• Terms to Know (vocabulary page)
• What I know/ What I Want to Know
• Where in the World?
• Fast Facts Research and Paragraph
• Adaptions & Purpose Research
• Picture It (draw and label parts of animal and adaptations)/ Most Interesting Adaption Opinion Writing
• A Creature & Its Ecosystem
• What if... (Students will research impact of a species no longer being part of an ecosystem. They will apply this research to the animal they have been researching.)
• A Nocturnal Comparison (Students will compare/ contrast their animal to that of a classmates.)
• Journal of My Nocturnal Creature (Template pages for a paper bag book journal of a day/ night in the life of the nocturnal animal researched.)
• Your Choice Final Project Suggestions
• Project Rubric

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I Am the Expert Enrichment Research Project

Ecosystems Group Research Project

Choose A Country Research Project

Biography Research Project

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Katherine