Format
1.) Students are given an introduction to the museum and our Perkins Wildlife Center.
2.) Real specimens, including skulls, skins, and taxidermy mounts are featured.
3.) Students are challenged to use their 5 senses to compare with the ways reptiles use their senses to find food and shelter.
4.) Videos of our animal ambassadors are shown, illustrating different Ohio habitats.
5.) Q & A is handled during the program.
Objectives
• Students will be able to identify what differentiates a reptile from the other animal groups based on their characteristics
• Students will be able to identify adaptations a reptile has in relation to the five senses and how they help them survive
• Students will be able to observe a reptile and determine how it interacts with its environment
Standards Alignment
National Standards
Please see Ohio Standards below.
State Standards
Ohio’s Learning Standards
Grade 1: Life Science - Basic Needs of Living Things
• Living things have basic needs, which are met by obtaining materials from the physical environment
• Living things survive only in environments that meet their needs
Grade 1: English Language Arts
• RI.1.3. Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information
• SL.1.2. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented in various media and other formats (e.g., orally)
Grade 1: Math
• 1.MD.1 Order three objects by length, compare the length of two objects indirectly by using a third object
Grade 2: Life Science - Interactions within Habitats • Ecosystems are sustained by the balanced interactions between its biotic and abiotic factors • Just as living things impact the environment in which they live, the environment impacts living things. • Living things cause changes on Earth • All organisms alive today result from their ancestors, some of which may be extinct. Not all kinds of organisms that lived in the past are represented by living organisms today
Grade 2: English Language Arts
• RI.2.3. Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text
• SL.2.2. Retell of describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented in various media and other formats (e.g., orally)
Grade 2: Math
• 2.MD.1 Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.
• 2.MD.4 Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit
Grade 3: Life Science - Behavior, Growth and Changes
• Plants and animals have life cycles that are part of their adaptations for survival in their natural environments
• Organisms’ physical and behavioral traits affect their ability to survive and reproduce
• Differences in inherited traits give some individuals an advantage in surviving and/or reproducing
Grade 3: English Language Arts
- RI.3.9. Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic
SL.3.3. Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
Grade 3: Math
3.MD.8 Solve real -world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and different areas or with the same area and different perimeters.
Grade 4: Life Science - Earth’s Living History
• Suitable habitats depend upon a combination of biotic & abiotic factors
• Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful
• Fossils can be compared [to one another and] to present-day organisms according to their similarities and differences
Grade 4: English Language Arts
• RI. 4.6. Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in perspective and the information provided
• SL.4.3. identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points
Grade 4: Math
4.MD.1 Know relative sizes of the metric measurement units within one system of units. Metric units include kilometer, meter, centimeter, and millimeter; kilogram and gram; and liter and milliliter. Express a larger measurement unit in terms of a smaller unit. Record measurement conversions in a two-column table