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Nature Explorers Lessons

Elementary


 
Additional Invertebrates Lessons
• What's a Bug?
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Bugs
• Wormy
From the Ground Up
• No Bones About It...Invertebrates are animals that do not have an internal skeleton, or backbone. It is estimated that there are around 15-30 million animal species on Earth. Did you know that 90% or more are invertebrates? Invertebrates anywhere and everywhere. They have even been observed in the upper heights of the atmosphere, in the most barren of deserts, in the canopies of the rainiest rain forests, in the frozen Antarctic, and on the deepest ocean floor.
• Being Green...Plants are incredibly resilient. Everywhere you go you will find plants. Even if you live in the middle of the city, you’ll find plants growing between the cracks of the sidewalks. Let’s learn about plants so we can go outside and look for them.
• Up...Birds represent only a fraction of all animal life on the earth, but humans have more in common with them. Find out what makes them special.
• We're All in this Together...Plants and animals depend on each other to live. Plants and animals need each other. This is called interdependence. A caterpillar depends on a wheat plant for food. A baker depends on the wheat plant to make flour. People need the flour to bake cookies, cakes and pies. This is called a food web. In the web, plants and animals are connected to each other. Think about your breakfast today. Did you eat cereal with milk? Did the milk come from a cow? Did the cow eat grass to produce the milk? What other animals might need grass to live? If you drew a picture with lines to connect the plants and animals, it would look like a web. The interdependence of plants and animals is called a food web.
Survivors Guide
• Getting the Right Fit
• Acting Out...Not only do animals come in many different colors, shapes and sizes. Animals can also behave very differently from one another. Animals behave in specific ways to protect themselves, find food and water, move about, maintain body temperature, and find a mate and raise their young. These types of adaptations are call behavioral adaptations and, like structural adaptations, help the animals survive in their environments.
• The Animal’s Habitat Survival Guide... Every organism lives within an ecosystem. An ecosystem includes all living things (biotic factors) and non-living things (abiotic factors) in an environment and how they interact. Within ecosystems, each animal lives in a “habitat” which provides for its basic needs such as food, water, shelter and a place to breed and rear young. All organisms are adapted to their habitats.
• The Plant’s Habitat Survival Guide...Humans and animals are not the only ones who have to adapt to their surroundings. So do plants. The large number of plant species that exist must make adaptations (either structural or behavioral) to help them survive in their natural areas. Adaptation refers to the special features that enable a plant to live successfully in a particular habitat.
• The Plant’s Habitat Survival Guide-Arboretum...Humans and animals are not the only ones who have to adapt to their surroundings. So do plants. The large number of plant species that exist must make adaptations (either structural or behavioral) to help them survive in their natural areas. Adaptation refers to the special features that enable a plant to live successfully in a particular habitat.
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Secondary


 
Additional Invertebrates Lessons
• What's a Bug?
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Bugs
• Wormy
From the Ground Up
• No Bones About It...Invertebrates are animals that do not have an internal skeleton, or backbone. It is estimated that there are around 15-30 million animal species on Earth. Did you know that 90% or more are invertebrates? Invertebrates anywhere and everywhere. They have even been observed in the upper heights of the atmosphere, in the most barren of deserts, in the canopies of the rainiest rain forests, in the frozen Antarctic, and on the deepest ocean floor.
• Being Green...Plants are incredibly resilient. Everywhere you go you will find plants. Even if you live in the middle of the city, you’ll find plants growing between the cracks of the sidewalks. Let’s learn about plants so we can go outside and look for them.
• Up...Birds represent only a fraction of all animal life on the earth, but humans have more in common with them. Find out what makes them special.
• We're All in this Together...Plants and animals depend on each other to live. Plants and animals need each other. This is called interdependence. A caterpillar depends on a wheat plant for food. A baker depends on the wheat plant to make flour. People need the flour to bake cookies, cakes and pies. This is called a food web. In the web, plants and animals are connected to each other. Think about your breakfast today. Did you eat cereal with milk? Did the milk come from a cow? Did the cow eat grass to produce the milk? What other animals might need grass to live? If you drew a picture with lines to connect the plants and animals, it would look like a web. The interdependence of plants and animals is called a food web.
Survivors Guide
• Getting the Right Fit
• Acting Out...Not only do animals come in many different colors, shapes and sizes. Animals can also behave very differently from one another. Animals behave in specific ways to protect themselves, find food and water, move about, maintain body temperature, and find a mate and raise their young. These types of adaptations are call behavioral adaptations and, like structural adaptations, help the animals survive in their environments.
• The Animal’s Habitat Survival Guide... Every organism lives within an ecosystem. An ecosystem includes all living things (biotic factors) and non-living things (abiotic factors) in an environment and how they interact. Within ecosystems, each animal lives in a “habitat” which provides for its basic needs such as food, water, shelter and a place to breed and rear young. All organisms are adapted to their habitats.
• The Plant’s Habitat Survival Guide...Humans and animals are not the only ones who have to adapt to their surroundings. So do plants. The large number of plant species that exist must make adaptations (either structural or behavioral) to help them survive in their natural areas. Adaptation refers to the special features that enable a plant to live successfully in a particular habitat.
• The Plant’s Habitat Survival Guide-Arboretum...Humans and animals are not the only ones who have to adapt to their surroundings. So do plants. The large number of plant species that exist must make adaptations (either structural or behavioral) to help them survive in their natural areas. Adaptation refers to the special features that enable a plant to live successfully in a particular habitat.
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