Survival Unit by Betsy Tocabens

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Playlist on Survival

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Watch this video:

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In your Science Notebook, explain what you think was happening with the plant in the video you just watched.

Vocabulary

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Rubric

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Living Things

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Draw a picture or write a response in your Science Notebook to the following questions.

What do you know about living things?
How do you know something is alive?

SWANS

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Living things need SWANS to survive. Create a chart in your science notebook for SWANS.

Shelter
Water
Air
Nutrients
Sun

SWANS Playlist

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Explore and complete this playlist about how animals get what they need to survive.

Resources to Explore

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Plant Parts (Raz Kids)
Parts of a Plant (DK Find Out)

Things to think about:

What are the structures present within a plant?
What shapes do those structures take on?
What is the function of those structures?
Together, what do the different parts of the plant do?
How are the structures of different parts of the plant uniquely designed to carry out their expected function?

Investigation

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How can we conduct an investigation to determine the effect that sun has on plant growth?

Where would you place a plant in your home? How does the sunlight vary in different locations - full sunlight, partial sunlight, no sun?
In your Science Notebook, draw pictures of different locations in your home with full sunlight, partial sunlight, and no sunlight. Make sure to label your work.
Where would you place your plant to help it grow? Why?

How do living things get what they need for survival?

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Watch Parts of a Plant in the BrainPopJr app.
In your Science Notebook, draw and label each part of a plant (roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits).

How are offspring similar and different from their parents?

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All living things have a life cycle that follows a predictable pattern:

birth
growth
adulthood
death.

The cycle continues with the offspring. Plants and animals have predictable characteristics at different stages of development.

Explore Resources

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Explore the following resources on animal and plant life cycles and draw pictures and take notes in your Science Notebook.

Create Your Own Lifecycle

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Create your own life cycle using photos of yourselves at birth, growth and then draw yourself as adult and elderly.
Analyze and look for patterns in the life cycles of animals (including humans) and plants. How are they similar and different? Use evidence from research and observation to describe and draw conclusions about patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

How do patterns in behavior of parents and offspring help offspring survive?

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Look at the pictures of parents with their offspring.

What do you notice?
What do you wonder?
What conclusions can you draw from these pictures?

Look at your own lifecycle you created in the previous activity.

How do parents help the offspring survive within each stage (feeding, comforting, protecting, etc).
Think of the following questions:
- What structure do all ____ have? What is the function of that structure?
- What is a basic need that all ___ have? What structure meets that need and how?
- Interactive Read Aloud- Heredity (PebbleGo)

What similarities/differences between parents and offspring have you noticed in our natural world?

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Use evidence to make observations in your Science Notebooks about how young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.

Look at the dog pictures of the mother, father, and offspring. Show the following picture of a maple tree to students.
Optional Teacher Nearpod lesson - your teacher will advise you to do this or not. Life Science: Adult Animals and their Offspring

How do living things get what they need for survival?

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Why do animals lives where they do?
Examples:

Why doesn’t a penguin live in the forest?
Why do sharks live in water and not on land?

Animals live in habitats where they can get everything they need for survival.

Look at this picture of a deer in its habitat. Use the picture to model (explain) the structures that the animal uses to get what it needs to survive.
- Deers live in the woods because they eat leaves and drink water from a water source.

We have learned that animals live in habitats where they can get everything they need for survival.

What do you think happens if they can’t get what they need?
What happens when their habitat is changed by other animals?
Do any of the animals’ structures change?

Look at these pictures of ways animals and plants have changed the environment to meet their needs. Choose one picture and explain how the living thing has changed the environment to meet their needs.

How are animals and plants unique?

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Is the structure of all plants around the world the same? How do structures support plant survival in different environments? Record your thinking in your Science Notebook.

Choose one external part you learned about to draw and record how that external part helps a plant to survive in its habitat. (For example, some cold weather plants have hair on their leaves and stem to protect them from the cold.)

Teeth - How do you think the structure of these teeth help animals survive in their environment? (Think about eating, transportation, protection, etc)

Draw and record at least two specific types of teeth and how they help the animal survive in its habitat.

Feet - How do you think the structure of these feet help animals survive in their environment? (Think about eating, transportation, protection, etc)

Read “What if You Had Animal Feet?”
Draw and record at least two specific types of feet and how they help the animal survive in its habitat.

Ears - How do you think the structure of these ears help animals survive in their environment? (Think about eating, transportation, protection, etc)

Read “What if You Had Animal Ears?”
Draw and record at least two specific types of ears and how they help the animal survive in its habitat.

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Animal Structures & Survival

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Why do birds have beaks?

Animal Behavior & Offspring Survival

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Why do baby ducks follow their mother?

Camouflage & Animal Survival

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Why are polar bears white?

Inheritance & Variation of Traits

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Why do family members look alike?

Plant Survival & Engineering

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Why don't trees blow down in the wind?

Plant Movement & Survival

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What do sunflowers do when you're not looking?

Build Your Own Ecosystem

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Seed Racer

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Mangroovin'

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Ready, Set, Grow

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River Run

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Archer Fish

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Pond Life

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Plum's Creature Connector

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Rescue Ecotopia

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Nature Changer

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DiscoveryEd

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Why do ducklings following their mother?

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Why do ducklings follow their mother?

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Archer Fish

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