Format
1. Introduction to Zoo & Museum
2. Explore Marine Life – both modern and ancient!
• At the Zoo we’ll observe and explore animals swimming in their natural habitats.
• At the Museum we will observe and explore animals as found in fossil form.
• Marine life examined will include sharks, sea turtles, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs and more!
3. Compare and contrast habitats, forms, and adaptations
4. Discuss modern day conservation issues and how you can help
5. Question and Answers all along the way!
Objectives
Participants will:
- practice the inquiry process skills of observation and questioning;
- engage in discussion;
- develop an enriched understanding of how paleontology helps us to better understand our natural world;
- develop an enriched understanding of our worlds conservation issues and how you can help.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
While not designed to fit any one educational standard specifically, this program will compliment and supplement the curriculum of students studying the following standards:
Kindergarten:
SC.K.7.2 – Communicate solutions that will increase the positive impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.
SC.K.7.2.A Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive
SC.K.7.2.C Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live
1st Grade
SC.1.6.2.C Read texts and use media to determine patterns in a behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.
SC.1.6.2.D Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
2nd Grade
SC.2.7.2.C Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
SC.2.13.3.A Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly.
SC.2.13.3.D Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.
3rd Grade
SC.3.7.2.B Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and environments in which they lived long ago.
SC.3.7.2.D Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.
SC.3.9.3.A Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
4th Grade
SC.4.6.3.B Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior and reproduction.
SC.4.13.4.A Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
5th Grade
SC.5.8.2.C Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
SC.5.8.2.A Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, and motion and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.
6th Grade
SC.6.9.3.A Construct an argument based on evidence for how plant and animal adaptations affect the probability of successful reproduction.