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Backyard Animals | Everyday Learning

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Title:

Backyard Animals | Everyday Learning

URL:

https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/evscps.sci.life.backyardint/backyard-wildlife-interactive/

Content Source:

PBS

Type:

Interactive/Game

Overview:

Take a field trip in your own backyard. Backyard Animals, introduces children to animals they might find just outside the back door or in a nearby park. Students click on an animal to learn more about it.

Content Standard(s):

Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: K

3 ) Distinguish between living and nonliving things and verify what living things need to survive (e.g., animals needing food, water, and air; plants needing nutrients, water, sunlight, and air).

NAEP Framework

NAEP Statement::
E4.5: Natural materials have different properties that sustain plant and animal life.

NAEP Statement::
E4.7: The Sun warms the land, air, and water and helps plants grow.

NAEP Statement::
L4.1: Organisms need food, water, and air; a way to dispose of waste; and an environment in which they can live.*

NAEP Statement::
L4.2: Organisms have basic needs. Animals require air, water, and a source of energy and building material for growth and repair. Plants also require light.

NAEP Statement::
L4.3: Organisms interact and are interdependent in various ways, including providing food and shelter to one another. Organisms can survive only in environments in which their needs are met. Some interactions are beneficial; others are detrimental to the organism and other organisms.

NAEP Statement::
L4.4: When the environment changes, some plants and animals survive and reproduce; others die or move to new locations.

Unpacked Content

Scientific And Engineering Practices:

Analyzing and Interpreting Data

Crosscutting Concepts: Patterns

Disciplinary Core Idea: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Distinguish between living and nonliving things.
Verify what living things need to survive
Use observations to distinguish between living and nonliving things and describe patterns of what plants and animals need to survive.

Teacher Vocabulary:

Distinguish
Living
Nonliving
Verify
Need
Survive
Animals
Plants
Nutrients
Water
Sunlight
Air
Food

Knowledge:

Students know:

All animals need food, water, and air in order to survive.
Animals obtain their food from plants and other animals.
Plants need water, light and air to survive.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Distinguish between living (including humans) and nonliving things.
Verify what living things, including plants and animals, need to survive.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

Patterns in the natural world can be observed and used as evidence when distinguishing between living and nonliving things and determining the needs of living things.

AMSTI Resources:

AMSTI Module:
Plants and Animals
*Exploring Plants and Animals, STC

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.K.3- Sort a group of items based on whether the items are living or nonliving.

Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: 2

7 ) Obtain information from literature and other media to illustrate that there are many different kinds of living things and that they exist in different places on land and in water (e.g., woodland, tundra, desert, rainforest, ocean, river).

NAEP Framework

NAEP Statement::
L4.1: Organisms need food, water, and air; a way to dispose of waste; and an environment in which they can live.*

NAEP Statement::
L4.2: Organisms have basic needs. Animals require air, water, and a source of energy and building material for growth and repair. Plants also require light.

NAEP Statement::
L4.4: When the environment changes, some plants and animals survive and reproduce; others die or move to new locations.

NAEP Statement::
L4.7: Different kinds of organisms have characteristics that enable them to survive in different environments. Individuals of the same kind differ in their characteristics, and sometimes the differences give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing.

Unpacked Content

Scientific And Engineering Practices:

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Crosscutting Concepts: Patterns

Disciplinary Core Idea: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Illustrate the diversity of living things in different habitats, including both land and water.

Teacher Vocabulary:

Literature
Media
Diversity
Habitats
Woodland
Tundra
Desert
Rainforest
Ocean
River

Knowledge:

Students know:

Plants and animals are diverse within different habitats.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Obtain information from literature and other media.
Illustrate the different kinds of living things and the different habitats in which they can be found.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land and in water.

AMSTI Resources:

Be sure students are aware of credible media resources when obtaining information.
AMSTI Module:
Plants and Bugs
Plant Growth and Development, STC
The Best of Bugs: Designing Hand Pollinators, EiE

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.2.7- Participate in activities that show many different living things in different environments.

Tags:

animal, living thing

License Type:

Custom Permission Type
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Author:

Stephanie Carver

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Backyard Animals | Everyday Learning