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This publication includes curriculum materials on animals for grades 4-6. The major purposes of this publication are to foster individualized and interdisciplinary science and art activities within elementary classrooms and to provide pupils a:Id teachers with suggestions to encourage the use of zoos, animal parks, and natural history museums. Activities are described for studying animal adaptations, prehistoric animals, animal conservation, animal behavior, and animals in captiviy. (MH) Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal * reproducibility are often encountered and this affects the quality * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions EPIC makes availabls * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDFS are the best that can be made from the original