Format
1. The program begins with a brief introduction to CCSC and Alaska.
2. Students will use observation skills while watching a video.
3. Next, we will compare summer and winter forests and discuss some challenges humans, animals, and plants face through the seasons.
4. We will explore plant adaptations and different strategies they use to survive.
5. Draw a Tree- Students will draw a tree from their school grounds and make predictions on how that tree will appear in the future.
6. Students will have the opportunity to share drawings and predictions with the remaining time.
Objectives
Students will be able to correctly identify two challenges plants in Alaska face during the winter.
Students will be able to identify at least two ways that plants adapt to survive during the winter.
Standards Alignment
State Standards
2-LS4-1: Make observations of plants to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
3-LS4-3: Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
3-LS1-1: Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.