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1. What is adaptation?

2. How does the changing environment affect adaptations?

3. What are some causes of environmental change that would affect the animals?

4. How have species adapted to the changing environment?

5. Why should humans care if the ecosystems are changing and animals need to adapt?

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1. What relationship do we have to the environment?

2. How do humans affect the environment?

3. What happens when we destroy an ecosystem?

4. Who owns the environment?

5. What is biodiversity?

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Book: World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky

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Book: World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky

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This book discusses how the actions we as human take affect the other animals and their livelihood. Ii explains that if animals start to become extinct, how this reaction affects everything else in the environment.

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1. How can we live more sustainably to help the environment?

2. What responsibilities do we have to the environment?

3. How will reducing pollution help humans?

4. Why is pollution and polluting such a big deal?

5. How does climate change and recycling contribute to each other?

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Book: Greta Thunberg (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

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Book: Greta Thunberg (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

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This books walks you through the life of Greta Thunberg and her amazing impact on making a change with the environment. It proves that children can make a difference, not just the adults.

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1. How do our eating choices affect the environment?

2. How can humans preserve natural resources?

3. What would happen to the environment, animals, and plants if our natural resources were gone?

4. What are the different types of natural resources we have?

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This book is a fiction book about a class that is on a field trip and then saves a baby panther. It shows how when the humans were creating drilling areas, it affected where the panthers were living.

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Virtual Book: Man Vs. Animal: Species at Risk by Jeff Garside, Amy Tilmont

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Virtual Book: Man Vs. Animal: Species at Risk by Jeff Garside, Amy Tilmont

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This virtual book discusses the relationship between humans and animals. The relationship is not always the best. It talks about the affects of greenhouse gases, habitat destruction, and endangered species.

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Book: Fantastically Great Women Who Saved The Planet by Kate Pankhurst

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Book: Fantastically Great Women Who Saved The Planet by Kate Pankhurst

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This book describes the wonderful women in science who have helped the environment. As teachers we want to inspire all of our students to do great things, and this book shows that girls can do anything.

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Book: Becoming a Good Creature by Sy Montgomery

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Book: Becoming a Good Creature by Sy Montgomery

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This book shows how we all can get along and live on Earth together peacefully. As Sy travels she learns how to be a good person by how the animals are acting.

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Book: Global Guardians: Recycling, Reusing, and Conserving by Devi Puri

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Book: Global Guardians: Recycling, Reusing, and Conserving by Devi Puri

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https://www.getepic.com/app/read/74684
This book takes a look at how much we throw away and where the trash goes. It explains how the trash ends up in the landfill and how some trash end up in the water. It discusses ways to recycle items instead of throwing them out.

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This book explains what we can recycle and why we should recycle. It explains what happens to the product after it has been recycled.

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Video: Why Should Humans Care About Biodiversity?

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Video: Why Should Humans Care About Biodiversity?

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The video discusses how the different species depend on each other to live. It explains how species are going extinct and how it affects the environment and predater/prey relationship. The video also explains how biodiversity is important.

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Audiobook: One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia by Miranda Paul

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Audiobook: One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia by Miranda Paul

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This audiobook tells a story about a girl named Isatou Ceesay that lives in Gambia starts a movement to recycle to reduce the trash in her community. This book will be a great resource to help the students understand that recycling is not just an issue in their community.

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This book explains all the aspects of the environment, recycling, and waste. It explains how humans affect the environment and how we help by recycling.

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Book: Reducing and Recycling Waste (Environment Detective Investigates) by Jen Green

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Book: Reducing and Recycling Waste (Environment Detective Investigates) by Jen Green

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This book explains what waste is and where it goes. It explains the link between how waste is made and why that is a problem for our environment.

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Book: What is Everybody Did That? by Ellen Javernick

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Book: What is Everybody Did That? by Ellen Javernick

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This book helps the students understand that polluting our environment is not ok even if it is something small. It makes them think about if everyone was polluting, how would the world look. Everyone needs to do their part to keep the world a clean place.

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https://www.getepic.com/app/read/44623
This short video explains what decomposing means and why it is good for the environment. It talks the waste that goes to landfills and how we can recycle to reduce the waste.

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This Khan Academy video talks about the top five reasons humans are impacting the environment. It talks about what a healthy ecosystem is and how to preserve it. It discusses ecosystems and how human affect the ecosystem.

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Hank presents examples of how human activity can affect ecosystems.

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The short video explains what climate is and what affects it. Human's are also responsible for greenhouse gases which are not good for the environment. It also explains what the long term effects can be.

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This short video explains how looking at the trash can tell a lot about a person. It can tell what we do, what we eat, and doesn't lie about it. It shows how 1,000's of years later we can still learn about cultures from their trash.

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Book: I Live Where I Live Because by NSTA

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Book: I Live Where I Live Because by NSTA

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This book explains what adaptations are and why animals change. It also describes how adaptations are because of the changing environment and the affects on the environment can make it difficult for animals to survive.

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Supportive Article: A Kids Guide to Understanding Sustainability

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Supportive Article: A Kids Guide to Understanding Sustainability

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This article reinforces the idea of recycling and making good choices when it comes to the environment. The article is broken down into six subcategories to better help the students understanding.

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Most of us live a comfortable life because we have almost everything we want. But that isn't always going to be true. In future, we might not be able to have the same things because the raw materials and resources could run out. To make sure that future generations enjoy everything that we enjoy today, we need something called "sustainability" in most areas of our lives. Sustainability is one of the puzzles that scientists and governments are working together to solve today for everybody's future.

What is Sustainability?

Imagine owning a moneybox for your allowance that is always full. No matter how much of your allowance you take out, it keeps refilling. As much as we would like it to do so, the world doesn't work like that. Money does run out of we keep spending. Many of the things we use every day have a limit on the amount we can use or take out. It might take hundreds or thousands of years for some of them to completely run out, but these "resources" will disappear completely in the future. Some are running out now or causing problems because there isn't enough for everyone or they are getting harder to find.

Sustainability looks at ways of making sure that these resources last a very long time or even forever - such as the money box that will keep refilling. Politicians, scientists, businesses, and other important people and groups around the world are looking at ways of making this happen so it doesn't disrupt anyone's lives. The United Nations, a group of people representing all the countries around the world says that sustainability means "meeting the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." In other words, "we shouldn't use up everything today that people of tomorrow will also need."

Why is Sustainability Important?

The resources we use today are important to many areas of our lives including work, transport, schools, government, technology and many more. These will also be important to people living 10, 50 or 100 years in the future. The problem is, they might run out by then.

If we are to all continue to get along and live happily without running out of the things that we use today, and if people are going to continue to be able to work in some of our most important areas that use and make things, we need new sustainable sources. We will need newly-invented materials or natural resources that we can quickly and easily replace - sources that are sustainable and will keep refilling no matter how much we use, how much we take out and how many more people are going to want to use them.

Six Examples of Sustainability Problems in the Real World

Ancient civilizations were built on using raw materials such as rock, water, oil and gas. But as time has gone on, some of these raw materials have become rarer or harder to find. These are not sustainable. However, we are slowly replacing some of these older raw materials with some that can easily be replaced or will never run out. Sustainability affects many areas of our lives. Here are some of the most important.

1. Energy

At the moment, our electricity mostly relies on oil which is a fossil fuel. Other types of fossil fuel include coal and natural gas. They are all plant and animal remains from millions of years ago; none are sustainable which means they will run out eventually. But over the last 50 years, new technologies have come around to create electricity and other power sources sustainably. These include:

Some based on the weather such as solar power (which use the heat and light of the sun) and wind turbines (which turn the wind) to create electricity,

Harnessing the movements of the planet such as hydroelectricity (which uses dams to control the flow of water) tidal power (which uses the changes in ocean tides to generate energy) and geothermal power (which takes heat from beneath the surface)

So-called biomass and biofuels which uses plants such as certain types of grass harvested and processed to create a type of gasoline or diesel that is renewable and doesn't rely on taking oil out of the ground

2. Agriculture & Deforestation

Some crops are not good for the environment. For example, you may have heard recently about a campaign to reduce how much palm oil the world uses, to create sustainable palm oil farming, or to stop using it altogether. Palm oil farming leads to cutting down rainforests to make way for more farming land and this is not sustainable - we need the rainforests for many reasons. In this area, sustainability means that we ensure local landscapes are not damaged by farming and that we plant enough trees in other places to replace those we have cut down. Also, in some areas of the world, cutting down too many trees means the soil isn't quite so good at growing new crops and we need to chop down more trees.

3. Plastics

Another hot topic at the moment is plastic. Did you know plastics we use are made from oil? Yes, the same oil that we put in our cars and burn to produce electricity for our homes and businesses. Oil will run out, but this is not the only problem. The news has recently been filled with a lot of information about the damage that plastics are doing to the environment all over the world - particularly in our oceans - harming the lifeforms that live there. They are swallowing plastic which poisons them and gets caught up in it. These plastics take thousands of years to break down. Scientists are trying to develop new plastics that are safe for the environment and break down much quicker.

4. Waste

Since the year 2000, countries all over the world have tried to do something about waste. How much stuff does your family throw away? How much is recycled? The world has improved how much trash we send to recycling but more needs to be done. Waste that cannot be recycled will go into landfill sites. Trying to change what we make plastic from is just one of the problems of waste. We need to use as much packaging and other things we throw away at the moment recyclable, so it can be reused as it is or melted down to make new things from the same waste. Landfill creates problems such as greenhouse gas emissions (which lead to more global warming) and reduced land space for other uses. Also, it is becoming expensive to maintain areas that are just used to dump stuff we don't want anymore.

5. Overpopulation

Some of the problems listed above are problems because we are using more of everything because there are more people on the planet. The old resources and raw materials can't cope anymore. What was once only a small problem because they were limited to fewer people is now a much bigger problem. We are cutting down more forests to make way for more farming land and larger populations are using more water - to drink, to put on crops and to wash, and water sources such as lakes are drying up. We're also burning more fossil fuels to create more energy for more people. As the population just keeps getting bigger, we need new solutions to the strain that we are putting on our resources.

6. Biodiversity

This word means the balance between all lifeforms in an area or on the planet. It might not be obvious why this is a problem for sustainability at first until we realize just how much we depend on other plants and animals in our lives. There is currently a threat to bee populations all over the world and scientists are trying to understand why so many are dying off. It's not likely to happen, but if all the bees die then our food supply will be affected. Bees do something called "pollination" which helps plants reproduce. If bees go, the amount of food we have from natural plant sources will be much lower. The fish in our oceans is also an ongoing problem; when we fish too much, that can cause problems too.

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A Kids Guide to Understanding Sustainability

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Most of us live a comfortable life because we have almost everything we want. But that isn't always going to be true. In future, we might not be able to have the same things because the raw materials and resources could run out.

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Supportive Article: What is Sustainability?

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This article discusses the definition of sustainability and why it is important to Earth. It also explains four ways in which we can be better with sustainability.

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Sustainability Definition

The dictionary has several meanings for the word sustainability, some of which include ideas like maintain, support, endure, and withstand. By the 1980's the word came to be used most commonly to refer to maintaining the world we live in. The underlying idea behind sustainability is that we must act responsibly about the products we consume in order to be able to support the billions of people on this planet forever.

Why is sustainability important?

There are a limited amount of resources in the world that humans must extract from the very earth in order to produce houses, cars, computers, and pretty much everything else. When we use the word sustainability to mean maintain, it means to maintain it forever. This is because our actions have a lasting effect on the environment and we should protect it for our future generations.

If you want to figure out if something is sustainable you should ask yourself the question- can I do this forever?

Let's take a look at the product plastic to understand this idea a little more. Plastic was introduced in the early 1900's but only became a mass produced material with multiple uses after WWII. By the 1990's we were using plastic for everything from containers for food, to lamps, toys, bottles, bags and much much more. Now if we ask the question 'can I do this forever?' to the case of plastic, the answer is yes. But plastic takes millions of years to decompose and so the problem lies with what happens to all this plastic when we're done using it?

By producing all this plastic that we do not use forever, and since it takes nature a very long time to make it decompose, we end up with large amounts of plastic that is just taking up space on earth. Therefore using plastic is not sustainable. Plastic is just ONE example of unsustainable consumption.

How to help sustainability grow?

Lifestyle

Your lifestyle is your choice and you can change it. For example, when you go to the grocery store, make sure you always carry a cloth bag. This way the shopkeeper does not have to give you many plastic bags

Fixing

If your watch, or a toy, or a camera is broken or not working, try getting it fixed before you buy yourself a new one

Recycle

Try and be conscious about the things around you. When you consume something, see if you can re-use it later.

Needs vs Wants

Before you buy something, ask yourself the question- do I NEED this or do I WANT it?
Remember sustainability begins with you. So act locally and think globally.
Can you find out some other products that are highly unsustainable?
For more environment related articles and videos, visit: Environment for Kids category.

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Supportive Article: Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Modifications

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https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/environmental-impacts-agricultural-modifications/4th-grade/
This article explains how humans expansion of our agricultural systems is impacting the environment. As we expand, we are pushing animals out of their habitats.

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Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Modifications | National Geographic Society

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With the human population soaring out of control, agriculture must follow suit. But the innovations that boost crop yields carry ecological costs.

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https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/wildlife-crossings/3rd-grade/
This article discusses how humans are realizing that our transportation system is effecting animals. More and more animal crossings are being built to help the animals and us. This idea helps the animals get from one place to another safely.

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Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Roadkill is a serious problem. In the United States, wildlife causes more than one million automobile accidents every year. They cost $8 billion. That includes money spent on medical care and fixing the vehicles. More than a million animals are killed every day by cars. For many species, it is the main cause of death.

Another problem is that major roads separate animal populations. They also destroy their habitats. It becomes hard for animals to find food.
Keeping Animals Safe
Highway crossings for animals are becoming more common. There are different kinds of crossings. It depends on the species that need to cross. It also depends on geography. Bridges, overpasses and tunnels are the most common. They reduce the number of crashes. They also give animals a safe way to cross a road.

Wildlife bridges are usually covered in plants. It makes them look natural. Animals are more likely to use them. Often fences are placed on the side of the road. They direct wildlife toward the crossing.

Wildlife crossings began in France in the 1950s. It took off in the Netherlands. More than 600 crossings have been built there. The Dutch built the world's longest animal crossing. It is more than 0.8 kilometers (0.5 miles) long. In the United States, the idea took longer to catch on. Wildlife crossings began here less than 20 years ago.
A Tunnel For Frogs
In 1995, Davis, California, built a tunnel to let frogs pass under a road. One end was decorated to look like a frog village. It was named Toad Hollow. The frogs never used it.

Banff National Park is in Canada. The crossings there are more successful. Between 1996 and 2016, 42 crossings were built. In that time, 150,000 animals have used them. The number of accidents involving wildlife went down 80 percent.
Bridges For Koalas And Deer
In Queensland, Australia, koalas ( Phascolarctos cinereus) have been disappearing. Auto accidents were one of the main causes, the government said. Queensland built about six crossings. The koalas began using the tunnels very quickly.

Western U.S. states are building animal crossings. In 2018, Washington was building bridges across Interstate 90. They will allow animals to pass between the northern and southern Cascade Mountains. Deer already began using one. It wasn't even finished yet.

Wildlife crossings can be expensive to build. They save money in the long run, though.

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1. The class will create a collaborative Google Slide of ways humans effect the environment. As we are read the texts and articles, and watch the videos, we will add to our anchor chart.

2. The class will design a city map with animal crossings. We will brainstorm the types of animals we see in the city and what they would need for a crossing.

3. The class will make a My Piece of Environment map. As we learn about how humans effect the environment and the animals, the students will create a land map of what the environment should look like if humans do not effect it.

4. The students will use the book Man Vs. Animal: Species at Risk by Jeff Garside and Amy Tilmont to discuss how the vanishing rainforest is a big deal. They will brainstorm the different habitats and animals that can be affected. Using the Google Slide the students created, they will share their slides with each other.

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Book: Plant Survival: Adapting to a Hostile World by Brian Capon

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Book: Plant Survival: Adapting to a Hostile World by Brian Capon

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This book discusses what makes up plants. It talks about how plants need to survive so they adapt. If they are in a challenging or unforgiving environment, they will adapt.

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Book: Extreme Places: The Wettest and the Driest by Katie Marsico

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Book: Extreme Places: The Wettest and the Driest by Katie Marsico

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This book describes different places in the world that are the wettest and driest. This book is a great resource for brainstorming adaptations and which type of animals or plants could live in these types of environments.

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Book: How and why do animals adapt? by Bobbie Kalman

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Book: How and why do animals adapt? by Bobbie Kalman

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https://www.getepic.com/app/read/19870
This book explains the different types of adaptions. It talks about the different environments and habitats and how animals adapt or move from the habitat to survive.

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Supporting Article: Waste to Energy: How can we get the most from our waste?

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Supporting Article: Waste to Energy: How can we get the most from our waste?

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https://sciencejournalforkids.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/biomass_article.pdf

This article explains how our waste can be transformed into energy. It talks about the two benefits of this, energy, and climate. It also helps the students understand how biomass can help with climate change, which then helps with environment protection.

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Waste to Energy: How can we get the most from our waste? | Science Journal for Kids and Teens

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Scientists wanted to find out how much energy can be produced from waste biomass. Scientific article for students.

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Book: Investigators: Survival: Adapt or Die: How Animals Stay Alive By Lynette Evans

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Book: Investigators: Survival: Adapt or Die: How Animals Stay Alive By Lynette Evans

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Plants and animals need to adapt to stay alive. With environments that are constantly changing, animals and plants need to learn how to change to survive. The book also discusses how to plants and animals protect themselves by adapting.

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Supporting Article: Is Antarctica losing its penguins?

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Supporting Article: Is Antarctica losing its penguins?

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The article discusses how climate change effects Antarctica the most. Since climate change is making environmental change which is effecting the livelihood of the penguins.

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Supportive Blog:  New Report Highlights Troubled Waters for Diversity of Life in our Ocean

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Supportive Blog:  New Report Highlights Troubled Waters for Diversity of Life in our Ocean

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This article brings to light the impact pollution is having on our oceans and ocean life. It talks about the destruction we are making on the oceans and how it is affecting the plant and animal life.

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New Report Highlights Troubled Waters for Diversity of Life in Our Ocean - Ocean Conservancy

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The ocean is a wild, wonderful and mysterious place, and 80% of our ocean remains unmapped, unobserved and unexplored. Unfortunately, just because an area is unexplored does not mean humans haven't had an impact.

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Supportive Blog: To survive climate change, plants must adapt – and fast

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Supportive Blog: To survive climate change, plants must adapt – and fast

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https://blog.frontiersin.org/2016/08/23/to-survive-climate-change-plants-must-adapt-and-fast/

This blog discusses how plants need to adapt just as much as animals. The blog talks about how a lab is examining plant evolution to understand why they adapt, or need to adapt.

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How can plants adapt to climate change? Unlike animals that can actively fly, swim or walk away to new locations when climate becomes too hostile, plants must adapt their biological functions - or perish. New, collaborative research sheds some light on how plant evolutionary history will help us protect them.

"Climate changes at a given region create stressors such as increased heat, changed salt concentrations, droughts, or unavailability of pollinators, such as bees and birds" says Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Chelsea Specht. "These changes demand many local species, which have for a long time evolved to survive in different conditions, to rapidly adapt or else, they may disappear."

Driven to solve this problem, Specht's lab at Berkeley studies plant form and function with the ultimate goal of understanding the genetic causes of plant evolution. But because more data and information is needed to find a solution, and climate change is already a reality, Specht launched a Frontiers Research Topic on the subject in hopes that researchers from other labs would share their knowledge.

"We are identifying the drive for the evolution of the species, pushing the boundaries of our understanding of plant evolution and survival, towards better indicators for preservation of diversity and a balanced ecosystem," says Specht.

Specht says the challenge of studying in the wild is that researchers cannot control the factors to establish an effect. "We study evolutionary development in the field, where we can look into the history of how, biologically, the plant got there. This gives us ways to predict their capacity to survive climate changes," she explains.

But understanding how plants got there, and then quickly adapted to overcome to new stressors such as temperature change or drought, is no simple matter. " We have to collect an enormous amount of data to be able to identify true correlations, so I wanted to enable the field as whole to benefit," she says.

To her and other researchers in the field, it seemed clear that only a very large effort can inform of the best molecular pathways underlying successful adaptations. "To better predict how the environment will affect plant survival and reproduction, we need to merge microbiology and evolution with ecology."

By bringing scientists from different specialties in the realm of evolution together, she connected disciplines that wouldn't normally merge. "The benefits are clear and durable," says Specht, seeing that the new generation of developmental geneticists can build on our current understanding of the genetic bases of traits that are important for plant growth and reproduction. "We can now use this information to better predict plant response to environmental change."

Over 50 scientists from around the world have contributed their findings on the topic : " Understanding plant adaptation and diversification: evo-devo and beyond," published in Frontiers in Plant Science.

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To survive climate change, plants must adapt - and fast

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How can plants adapt to climate change? Unlike animals that can actively fly, swim or walk away to new locations when climate becomes too hostile, plants must adapt their biological functions - or perish. New, collaborative research sheds some light on how plant evolutionary history will help us protect them.

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Book: Heroes of the Environment by Harriet Rohmer

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Book: Heroes of the Environment by Harriet Rohmer

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This book follows the stories of twelve amazing people who are setting up and helping the environment. The book is an inspiration to the students to make a difference in the world.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-OMDnCFf2g

This short video discusses adaptations and why it is important to adapt based on the environment. It specifically explains why birds have beaks and why they are an adaptation.

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Adaptations for Kids | Science Lesson for Grades 3-5 | Mini Clip

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Book: You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Bees by Alex Woolf

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Book: You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Bees by Alex Woolf

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This book explains the importance of bees to the environment and our survival. The pollinating job helps with plant growth, food production, and habitat stabilization.

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Book: Who Needs Water? by Cynthia Rothman

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Book: Who Needs Water? by Cynthia Rothman

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Water is so important to everything's survival. This book discusses who needs water to survive. It talks about why water is important especially for animals.

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https://www.getepic.com/app/read/39043
This book describes different careers in the world that help the environment by not wasting our resources. At the end of the book, there is a survey the students can take to see which type of career would be best for them.

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instant access to thousands of great kids books.

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Instantly access 40,000 high-quality books for kids

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The leading digital library for kids offering unlimited access to 40,000 of the best children's books of all time. Sign up for a free 30 day trial to instantly access high-quality online books for kids, ebooks, audio books, quizzes, videos, and more.

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1. The students will analyze their home garbage to see the result of Trash Doesn't Lie. They will complete a pre-questionnaire asking what they believe their trash would tell about them. Then complete a questionnaire about what they actually found in the trash and compare the two.

2. The students will brainstorm a list of how to be sustainable the recycled items. The brainstorming will result in an anchor chart with the item and what we as humans can do to reduce the waste from that item.

3. The students will use recycled items to make a project for their homes. They will need to plan the project, design the product and make the project. That will create an object that they believe will be used at home.

4. The students will create a blog or podcast explaining the importance of recycling. They will use these projects to create a presentation to help others in the school learn about recycling. We could incorporate parts of these projects for a school assembly.

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https://www.getepic.com/app/read/42223
This books explains what natural resources are and why they are important. It discusses what the essential natural resources are: water, land, trees. It also discusses how some natural resources are wasted.

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instant access to thousands of great kids books.

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Instantly access 40,000 high-quality books for kids

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The leading digital library for kids offering unlimited access to 40,000 of the best children's books of all time. Sign up for a free 30 day trial to instantly access high-quality online books for kids, ebooks, audio books, quizzes, videos, and more.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIxkyTw6dKY
This video describes how animals move differently. The way animals move as based on their adaptation and survival.

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Bill Nye the Science Guy S03E20 Animal Locomotion

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1. The students will brainstorm animals and their adaptations they have developed over the years to survive. We will then sort the adaptations into categories on a Jamboard.

2. Using The Wettest and the Driest Places in the World book, we will brainstorm what types of animals and plants would live in these environments. The class will discuss what types of adaptations a plant or animals would need to survive in those environments.

3. The students will be placed in small groups and complete a Venn diagram using the Is Antarctica losing its penguins? book and an animal of choice. They will share their results with the whole class.

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Book: Natural or Man-made? by Kelli Hicks

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Book: Natural or Man-made? by Kelli Hicks

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This book describes the difference between a natural item or a man-made item. This will help the students differentiate who items are made, and what resources we use to make the items.

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https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/natural-resource/399553

This audio-article explains what a natural resource is and why it is important to preserve them. It also talks about the difference between a renewable and nonrenewable resource.

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A natural resource is something that is found in nature and can be used by people. Earth's natural resources include light, air, water, plants, animals, soil, stone,...

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Supporting Article: The six natural resources most drained by our 7 billion people

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Supporting Article: The six natural resources most drained by our 7 billion people

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/oct/31/six-natural-resources-population
This article explains a list of natural resources and why they are important. This article will help the students understand how natural resources work together to help plants grow, humans live, and how we need these resources to survive.

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The six natural resources most drained by our 7 billion people

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For how long can we realistically expect to have oil? And which dwindling element is essential to plant growth?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8uJQPo8yq0

This video gives a definition and examples of resources. It discusses the three main types of resources, human, capital, and natural. This will help the students understand how the world works and how all the resources are all connected.

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Human, Capital & Natural Resources for Kids | Types of Resources | Kids Academy

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcyM43z0UE8
The video explains how conservation is protecting natural resources. It explains how scarcity effects the land, and pollution. The video discusses items we have in our homes and how they need energy to use and how we can help transfer energy in more efficient ways.

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Saving Earth's Resources | How to Conserve Natural Resources: Water, Air, and Land | Kids Academy

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1. The students will brainstorm and make an anchor chart that has examples of natural resources and what uses that natural resource. We will use the Our Natural Resources book to help brainstorm.

2. The students will reflect on their daily lives, and decide what they can do to preserve natural resources. They will then decide if the resource is a non-renewable resource or renewable.

3. In small groups, the students will choose an animal and make a plan on how losing natural resources would hurt that animal and their environment. They will create a blog and will share it with the other groups.

4. The students will explore different objects they find in the school or the playground and categorize them as natural or man-made. They will do this in small groups and share their findings.

5. Students will take the career questionnaire at the end of the Food and Natural Resources book to see which career fits them. They will share their results with the class.