Distance Learning Grades 3-5

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Animal Adaptations

Organisms have specific traits that provide advantages for survival in their environment. Observe specific examples from the Long Sound and discover how habitat affects traits such as feeding, movement, and defense.

Lesson Modules
• Introduction to animal adaptations
• Camouflage
• Aquatic Movement (grades 3-5) & Aquatic Locomotion (grades 6-8)
• Animal senses
• Food chain (grades 3-5) & Food web (grades 6-8)

NGSS Alignments
Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: 3-LS2-1, 3-LS4-3
Inheritance and Variation of Traits: 3-LS3-2, 3-LS4-2, 3-LS4-4
Structure, Function, and Information Processing: 4-LS1-1, 4-LS1-2
Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems: 5-PS3-1, 5-LS1-1, 5-LS2-1
Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems: MS-LS2-2
Natural Selection and Adaptations: MS-LS4-4

Grades 3-5 Animal Adaptations:

Unit
Unit Materials – PDF

Unit Material – PowerPoint

Video Reflections & Worksheets

Introduction to Animal Adaptations

Video Reflection

Worksheet – Animal Adaptations Card

Camouflage
Video Reflection
Worksheet – Using Camouflage

Aquatic Movement
Video Reflection
Worksheet – Locomotion

Animal Senses
Video Reflection
Worksheet – Animal Senses

Food Chain
Video Reflection
Worksheet – The Food Web

Lesson Plans & Supplemental Materials Answer Guide

Human Impact

Humans are dependent on all earth systems, which are connected. Discover the positive and negative effects that result from our use of the environment and ways we can mitigate these changes.

Lesson Modules
• Earth Systems
• Marine Debris
• Microplastics
• Water Movement
• Resource Management

NGSS Alignments
Earth’s Systems: 2-ESS2-1; 2-ESS2-2; 2-ESS2-3
Weather and Climate: 3-ESS3-3
Energy: 4-ESS3-1
Earth’s Systems: 4-ESS1-1; 4-ESS2-1; 4-ESS3-2
Earth’s Systems: 5-ESS2-1, 5-ESS2-2; 5-ESS3-1
Human Impacts: MS-ESS3-3