Woodland Animals in Winter Task Cards 2 nd Grade Created By: Kristy Rocquin krocquin.2015

Teacher Directions Students will use World Book Kids Online to research the answers to the questions on the task cards. Use the task cards individually at student’s desk, or as a center activity. Students flip through the cards to answer the questions. Students will write their answers on the provided recording sheet.

Woodland Animals in Winter Task Cards 2 nd Grade Created By: Kristy Rocquin Common Core Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.2 Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. Student Directions Use World Book Kids Online to answer the questions on the task cards. Read the text for evidence. Write your answers on the recording sheet. I can Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.

12 34 Hibernation is a condition in which animals seem to be asleep for a long time. Why do animals hibernate during the winter? List 3 animals that hibernate. Migration is the movement of animals to a place that has better living conditions. What do some of those living conditions include? Migrations take place on land, in water, or in the air. List 3 animals that migrate.

56 78 Camouflage is hiding by looking like something else. Camouflage is used by animals in nature. How do humans use camouflage? Animals have several ways to find their way during migrations. Many are guided by the sun, the moon, and the stars. How else are animals guided? Many animals use camouflage to hide from predators. What are predators? Some animals change their color during different seasons. The fur of the arctic fox turns white in winter. How does this help the animal?

Foxes are good hunters and can catch fast animals. They hunt during the winter. What is an animal they may catch? Many bears sleep through much of the winter. They eat a lot of food during late summer, storing up fat in their bodies. Where may a bear sleep in the winter? When a living thing acts on its instinct, it usually needs something to make it act the way it does. This is called a stimulus. What stimulus alerts a bird that it is time to migrate? Chipmunks live underground in tunnels. They usually sleep through the winter, but they may wake up on warm days to eat some of the food that they stored. What is the name of a chipmunk’s underground home?

Name: _________________________________________ Date: ______________________ Woodland Animals in Winter krocquin.2015 Directions: Use World Book Kids Online to answer the questions on the task cards. Read the text on the website to find the correct evidence for each question. Write your evidence in the spaces below.

Name: _________________________________________ Date: ______________________ Directions: Use World Book Kids Online to answer the questions on the task cards. Read the text on the website to find the correct evidence for each question. Write your evidence in the spaces below. Woodland Animals in Winter krocquin.2015 Animals hibernate during the winter to protect themselves against the cold and cut down on their need for food. Many kinds of animals hibernate. They include bats, chipmunks, ground squirrels, hamsters, lizards, snakes, turtles, frogs and toads, and some birds. Living conditions include weather, food and water, and places to build nests and raise young. Many birds, fish, insects, and mammals migrate. Others follow rivers or mountain ranges. Salmon use smell to find their way from the ocean to the stream where they were born. Some animals are guided by changes in temperature, moisture, or wind direction. Sea animals may use information from ocean currents. It is used by hunters and the military. Predators are hunting animals. This helps the animal blend in with the snow. A fox may catch rabbits or birds during the winter. They live in a den, which may be a cave or just a shallow hole. When winter is near, the shorter days are the stimulus for a certain chemical to go through a bird's body. The chemical, in turn, is the stimulus in the bird's brain that tells it to fly to warmer places. Chipmunks live underground in tunnels called burrows

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