Collaboration
Ecosystems Unit 3
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Collaboration |
Ecosystems Unit 3 |
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Exploration Question
1: How does being a part of a group help some animals survive? |
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NGSS: LS2.D Social Interactions and Group Behavior: Being part of a group helps animals obtain food, defend themselves, and cope with changes. Groups may serve different functions and vary dramatically in size. I can identify and discuss the needs of animals in order to survive. I can investigate to find the benefits of gathering food as a group. I can identify the benefits fo working with a group for protection. I can describe how animal groupscope with changes within their environment. I can understand the reasons why different animals form different sized groups. I can apply what I have learned about animal groups and how they work in groups for survival. I can construct an argument that some animals for groups that help members survive. |
Scholastic Study Jams on AdaptationsScholastic
Study Jams on Animal AdaptationsTorpor
Sleep AdaptationBirds
in a V- FormationAll
About Adaptation Resources10
Examples of Animal AdaptationsGroups
of Animals: This PDF of a PowerPoint slideshow discusses how Animals Live and the Benefits of Living in Groups. 
This Smartboard slide asks students to decide which animal group they would want to work in when gathering food. They must provide reasons why they choose that group. Good to use as a follow up to the "Gathering Food" experiment. 
Muskox
Manuevers Lesson PDF version of the lesson and experiment. Have students answer the follow up question on the Chromebooks using Padlet. "Would the Muskox calf protect itself from the wolf if it were not apart of the family group?" Website that gives the animal collective noun for almost every animal. Fun activity. Have the students pick one and write a story using that collective noun. Ex: A quiver of cobra. Meerkat
Lesson and Activity  Show students the Youtube video "Ducks Don't Get Wet" or read the book with the same title by A.Goldin. Then have students use this Adaptation Pixie to show what they know about animals that adapt. Option: Have them use  Discovery
Education to create a board all about animal adapations- searching for
videos to add. |
Investigate the Facts on Animal Adaptations
Students use this Pixie to brainstorm the benefits of living in a group in a chart or tree map.
Students use this Inhibiting Injury Pixie to infer the cause of injury and then describe the effects of the injury on the ability for the the animal to hunt and gather food. Finally, the brainstorm ways the animal could adapt to the injury.
Animal Behaviors and Defences This activity can be used as a center for review on animal behaviors. This will help build background knowledge for how animals protect themselves and why living in a group helps them survive.
Students use this Bee Postcard in Pixie to summarize what they learned about watching the video clip on Bees Protecting the Colony (Curriculum link: Bees in a Colony)
After watching the Discovery Education clip on Meerkat Colonies, have stuents use this Smart slide Meerkat Food Chain/ Web Smart to create a food chain or web based on the Meerkat lesson cards from Meerkat Lesson and Activity. Other option: Use Inspiration to create a food chain/web. Log-in to Discovery Education using your AACPS log-in and password before clicking the link.
Behavioral
Adaptations Circle Map
Response to TextAfter reading the articles on ClownFish, Banded Mongoose, Army Ants, and Gray Wolves (in curriculum guide), students will use this Pixie to respond to the text with connections to self, lingering questions, and will answer the focus questions about group size and survival.
Behavorial Adapations Students will use this Pixie to think about possible behavorial adaptations that animal groups may use to cope with given challenges. |
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Torpor
Sleep Adaptation
Scholastic Study Jams on Adaptations10
Examples of Animal AdaptationsGroups
of Animals: This PDF of a PowerPoint slideshow discusses how Animals Live and the Benefits of Living in Groups.
This Smartboard slide asks students to decide which animal group they would want to work in when gathering food. They must provide reasons why they choose that group. Good to use as a follow up to the "Gathering Food" experiment.
Muskox
Manuevers Lesson PDF version of the lesson and experiment. Have students answer the follow up question on the Chromebooks using Padlet. "Would the Muskox calf protect itself from the wolf if it were not apart of the family group?" Website that gives the animal collective noun for almost every animal. Fun activity. Have the students pick one and write a story using that collective noun. Ex: A quiver of cobra. Meerkat
Lesson and Activity Show students the Youtube video "Ducks Don't Get Wet" or read the book with the same title by A.Goldin. Then have students use this Adaptation Pixie to show what they know about animals that adapt. Option: Have them use Discovery
Education to create a board all about animal adapations- searching for
videos to add.
Students use this Pixie to brainstorm the benefits of living in a group in a chart or tree map. Scholastic
Study Jams on Animal Adaptations
Students use this Inhibiting Injury Pixie to infer the cause of injury and then describe the effects of the injury on the ability for the the animal to hunt and gather food. Finally, the brainstorm ways the animal could adapt to the injury.
Animal Behaviors and DefencesThis activity can be used as a center for review on animal behaviors. This will help build background knowledge for how animals protect themselves and why living in a group helps them survive.
Students use this Bee Postacard in Pixie to summarize what they learned about watching the video clip on Bees Protecting the Colony (Curriculum link: Bees in a Colony) * Be sure to log into http://aacps.discoveryeducation.com/ before opening link.
After watching the Discovery Education clip on Meerkat Colonies, have stuents use this Smart slide Meerkat Food Chain/ Web Smart to create a food chain or web based on the Meerkat lesson cards from Meerkat Lesson and Activity. Other option: Use Inspiration to create a food chain/web. * Be sure to log into http://aacps.discoveryeducation.com/ before opening link.
Behavioral
Adaptations Circle Map
Response to TextAfter reading the articles on ClownFish, Banded Mongoose, Army Ants, and Gray Wolves (in curriculum guide), students will use this Pixie to respond to the text with connections to self, lingering questions, and will answer the focus questions about group size and survival.
Behavorial Adapations Students will use this Pixie to think about possible behavorial adaptations that animal groups may use to cope with given challenges. |
NGSS: LS2.D Social Interactions and Group Behavior: Being part of a group helps animals obtain food, defend themselves, and cope with changes. Groups may serve different functions and vary dramatically in size. I can identify the benefits of working with a group for protection. |
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