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ADAPTATION
IN NATURE
Goals: This
unit helps students understand how plants and animals adapt to changes
in their environment. They will study how physical characteristics assist
animals and plants to survive. They will be able to identify how plants
and animals adapt to day and night, to different seasons, as well as to
changes in their environment. They will be able to discuss how humans
adapt to changes in their environment and to describe ways we can adjust
to a natural setting without causing major changes.
Objectives: By completing this unit the students will be able to:
- define adaptation.
- identify three
physical characteristics that help plants and animals survive (fawn
spots, bird egg colors, cactus spines, design patterns).
- describe how unique
plant designs, plant locations, or animal homes help plant and animals
survive.
- analyze ways animals
adapt to different environments or seasonal changes (advanced hearing,
long antennae, night vision, change in coloration, thicker fur, migration).
- find three examples
of how plants and animals adapt to natural changes in the environment.
- discuss three ways
humans can adapt to or change their environment.
- evaluate the place
where you live and list changes that humans have made to the environment.
Discuss how those changes might or might not affect wildlife. Discuss
ways humans can live in an environment without causing major changes.
These objectives
will be achieved in three stages:
- Nametags, pre-visit
activities and information - teacher(s) will complete Nametag Activity
and select at least one Pre-visit Activity to do in the classroom before
visiting Wind Cave National Park. Selection of activities will be communicated
to the ranger leading park program.
- Park activities
- ranger directed with assistance and supervision of the teacher and/or
teacher aide.
- Post-visit activities
- teacher(s) will select at least one Post-visit Activity to do in the
classroom after visiting Wind Cave National Park.
Pre-Visit
Preparations:
Nametags
- Who Am I?
Gotta
Have a Habitat
Fit
the Bill
Fit the Bill Graphics
Habitat
Sweet Habitat
Habitat
Sweet Habitat Graphics
Butterfly
Story
Have
to Have a Habitat
Post-Visit
Activities:
Shape
Art of the Past
Adaptation
Artistry
What's
the Difference?
What's
the Difference Graphics
Vocabulary
List
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contact the park at (605) 745-4600. The park has a TTY.
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