Cottontails Crossword
Worksheets
Grades3, 4, 5Science, English Language Arts
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Provided by Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
What it is
- This worksheet includes information about Connecticut's two cottontail species and a crossword puzzle featuring terms from the reading.
- Students will learn where cottontails live, signs of cottontails in a habitat, and the cottontails' role as prey.
Teaching tips
Positives
- The different sections help break up the text for students.
- The answers for the crossword puzzle are in the above text, making it easy for students to find the answer.
Additional Prerequisites
- It may benefit students to see photographs of the two different cottontails to compare them.
- Some students may need the terms browsed, habitat, territory, DNA, and others defined before they read the worksheet.
- Some students may be alarmed to find out that some people eat rabbits.
Differentiation
- After reading the section about cottontail predation, students can create food webs and pinpoint the cottontail's place in it.
- Students can discuss how global climate change will impact cottontails and their habitats.
- If possible, students can visit a local forest to look for signs of cottontails and talk about what they notice about the habitat.
- In writing, students can write a story or poem about a cottontail.
- Teachers can use the crossword puzzle to assess students' reading comprehension.
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