Animals Impacting Ecosystems Strange But True Facts + 2 Truths & a Lie Activity

Animals can reshape entire ecosystems, and studying how they do it helps middle and high school students understand food webs, population balance, habitat change, invasive species, keystone predators, and even how human decisions ripple through nature. When students explore animals impacting ecosystems through a 2 Truths and a Lie format plus strange but true facts, the science becomes memorable because they are actively evaluating evidence, spotting misconceptions, and defending their reasoning rather than passively copying notes.

This resource makes that easy to run in real classrooms with a student-friendly, manipulable 5-slide Google Slides activity (20 facts total across the resource, plus 5 believable lies), a 12-slide visual presentation for whole-class engagement, and a print-ready 6-page PDF with answers and flexible mix-and-match options. The result is an engaging, low-prep lesson that boosts science literacy, critical thinking, and discussion skills while reinforcing key ecology concepts students need for assessments and real-world environmental understanding.

This animals impacting ecosystems 2 activity set provides a truly engaging set of ways to engage students. This resource can help your students spark learning about animals impacting ecosystems. For digital, you can provide a visual strange facts version and a digital / print find the lie version of the 2 truths and a lie activity.

Ideal for reviewing or opening content for this topic, collaborative work, or independent work, it helps reinforce key topics while using an unusual angle for educating on animals impacting ecosystems. This ready-to-use resource is perfect for last-minute lesson plans, sub plans, or as an easy extension activity to get students looking at this environmental phenomenon in a different kind of way.

THIS ANIMALS IMPACTING ECOSYSTEMS STRANGE BUT TRUE FACTS / 2 TRUTHS & A LIE RESOURCE CAN BE USED SO MANY WAYS:

• Useful for substitute (sub) teaching
• To extend students
• To increase engagement & curiosity
• A daily opening fact
• Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast
• To inspire students in an unusual manner
• Get students to act as a group of science detectives (No Google though!)

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS ANIMALS IMPACTING ECOSYSTEMS STRANGE BUT TRUE FACTS / 2 TRUTHS & A LIE RESOURCE:

• 5 Slide Digital manipulable Google Slides Version for student use on 2 Truths and a lie activity (with 10 facts & 5 lies)
• 12 Slide Visual Presentation Google Slides Version for presenting 10 Strange But True Facts
• 6 page PDF print version with answers, mix and match 2 truths and a lie version, color strange but true version.

These versions have effectively 10 strange but true facts & 10 DIFFERENT facts and 5 lies for the 2 truths and a lie activity. In total 20 facts on animals impacting ecosystems & 5 lies in this resource, presented in different and useful methods for teaching and engagement.