Format
1. Introduction to the topic, ask a couple of questions about what is an adaptation/what you know.
2. 3 kinds of adapations
3. owl butterfly and first animal ambassador
4. zebra pelt and second animal ambassador
5. porcupine quills and third animal ambassador
6. Time is allowed for questions and answers at the end (and throughout the program)
Objectives
1. Students will be able to tell at least one of the 3 main ideas of adaptations
2. Students will be able to compare various adaptations across various taxa
3. Students will be able to use their skills to look at other animals and tell what kind of adaptations they have
Standards Alignment
State Standards
North Carolina Standard Course of Study:
LS.4.1 Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations, and behaviors that enable organisms to survive in changing habitats
LS. 4.1.2 Use models to explain that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information, and respond to the information in different ways.
LS.4.1.3 Engage in argument from evidence to explain how differences among animals of the same population sometimes gives individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing in changing habitats.
LS.5.2 Understand the interdependence of plants and animals within their ecosystem.
LS.5.2.3 Use models to infer the effects that may result from the interconnected relationships of plants and animals to their ecosystem
LS.6.2 Understand the flow of energy through ecosystems and the responses of populations to the biotic and abiotic factors in their environment.
LS.6.2.2 Analyze and interpret data to predict how the abiotic factors (such as temperature, water, sunlight, and soil quality) and biotic factors affect the ability of organisms to grow and survive in different biomes (freshwater, marine, temperate forest, rainforest, grassland, desert, taiga, tundra).