Essential Science Standards: Unpacked Content
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/acre/standards/support-tools/unpacking/science/4.pdf
Animal Adaptations
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4.L.1 Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats. Top Ten Animal Adaptations Article http://www.animalplanet.com/wild-animals/animal-adaptations/ Bird Adaptation Experiment http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/2852?ref=search Animal Research-gives information about animals in various ecosystems, including information about adaptations http://www.mbgnet.net/index.html Animal facts related to categories of adaptations: climate, oxygen, food, water, and shelter/protection https://sites.google.com/a/chccs.k12.nc.us/fourth-grade-is-fabulous/science/animal-adaptations Discover Ed Video Links |
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4.L.1.1 Give examples of changes in an organism’s environment that are beneficial to it and some that are harmful. Climate Change on Ecosystems Article http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/impacts/effects/ecosystems.html Lesson for Researching and Discussing Specific Features and Behaviors that are Adaptations to its Environment |
| 4.L.1.2 Explain how animals meet their needs by using behaviors in response to information received from the environment. |
| 4.L.1.3 Explain how humans can adapt their behavior to live in changing habitats (e.g., recycling wastes, establishing rain gardens, planting trees and shrubs to prevent flooding and erosion). |
| 4.L.1.4 Explain how differences among animals of the same population sometimes give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing in changing habitats. |