Diversity and Adaptation Among Living Things

 

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Match a plant or animal adaptation to a particular environmental condition.

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Compare and contrast groups of organisms according to their major features.

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Match the form of structures found in living things to their function.

Day 1 - Review of Skills Taught

Review science skills taught previously.

  1. Cells - Show a picture of a plant and animal cells. Ask students to name parts and functions. (SmartBoard Activity)

  2. Landforms - Show pictures of landforms and have students identify each.

  3. Habitats - Ask the students to list some animals while the teacher writes them on the board. Then ask students to name the habitats that they live in - desert, rainforest, tundra, wetlands, etc.

  4. Review terms - producer, consumer, prey, predator

    1. Show four step food chains. Have students find consumers and producers, predators and prey.

  5. Parts of a plant

    1. Name parts and functions of each.

    2. Name vegetables. Students tell which part of the plant they are eating.

  6. Identify ways animals take in oxygen (lungs or gills)

  7. Match pictures of parents to young

  8. Discuss what would happen if an animal stopped reproducing or a plant wasn't pollinated.

  9. vocabulary - endangered, extinct, thriving, threatened

Day 2 - Grouping Plants and Animals

  1. Read TCAP Coach Lesson 7 page 57 "Classifying Plants"
  2. Draw a chart with different types of vascular and nonvascular plants.

    Vascular have a system that is intricate and the plant can move water to distribute it to the whole plant. Vascular plants are able to grow bigger due to this ability.
    Ex: Trees, flowers

    Nonvascular plants are usually small plants that are close to the ground. They do not have a very complex water distribution and for this reason cannot support large growth.
    Ex: moss

    Vascular Plants Nonvascular
    Seeds Non-Seeds
    (spores)    		 Complex nonvascular plants Simple nonvascular plants
    evergreens ferns mosses algae
    flowering plants club mosses liverwort  
    bushes horsetails hornworts  

 

Have student identify the following:

moss

bushes

Which is vascular? Which is nonvascular?
Have student identify the following:

ferns

evergreens

trees

Name two vascular plants. Name one nonvascular plant.

3.  Website with photos of many types of plants http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/frame.htm The Non-seed plant groups has the nonvascular plants.

4.  Quia Quiz http://www.quia.com/pop/47449.html (Excellent for this lesson)

 

Day 3 - Grouping Plants and Animals

  1. Read TCAP Coach Lesson 7 page 58 "Classifying Animals"
  2. Make chart similar to one on page 58.
    Discuss characteristics each has in common.
     
  Mammals Reptiles Amphibians Fish Birds
body covering fur or hair scales moist without scales most are covered with scales feathers
body temperature warm blooded cold blooded cold blooded cold blooded warm blooded
breathing lungs lungs gills then lungs gills lungs
babies birth young develop inside the mother's body

produce milk to feed their young

 most lay soft-shelled eggs lay jelly-like eggs most lay eggs eggs
where live most live on land live mainly on land live part of their lives in water and part on land live entirely in water land
  1. Online Activity Classifying Critters http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/forkids/critters/index.html
  2. Animals of the World http://www.kidscom.com/games/animal/animal.html
  3. PowerPoint on Animal Classification http://jc-schools.net/write/sci/Classification_files/frame.htm
  4. BrainPop
  5. Classifying Animals Matching http://www.quia.com/cc/269580.html (Uses words only)
  6. Quiz "What am I?" http://www.quia.com/pop/44945.html (Pictures with drop down list with mammal, reptile, etc.)

 

Day 4 - Adaptations

  1. Read TCAP Coach Lesson 8
  2. Surviving winter -  migrate, hibernate, and dormant
  3. United Streaming Animal Adaptations (24:00)
  4. BrainPop Jr. Animals http://www.brainpopjr.com/science/animals/
  5. Bulletin Board Pictures (Animal Adaptations to discuss and group)

  6. Take it to Your Seat (EMC 5003)

Day 5  Animal Adaptations

Birds

 

Animal Adaptations (Science and Animals) page 306-309

Mammals

Turtles

  1. Online Activities

  2. PowerPoints

 

 

 

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Resources

http://www.lakeorion.k12.mi.us/District/Departments/MooseTree/pdfs/Grade1AnimalConsolidated.swf