Amazing Adaptations
Grades Three through Five
Explore the Zoo and discover how plants and animals have adapted for survival.
Standards Addressed by this Topic:
Life Sciences
Benchmark B (3-5)
Analyze plant and animal structures and functions needed for survival and describe the flow of energy through a system that all organisms use to survive.
Grade Three Indicators
2. Relate animal structures to their specific survival functions.
3. Classify animals according to their characteristics.
Grade Four Indicators
2. Relate plant structures to their specific functions.
3. Classify common plants according to their characteristics.
Benchmark C (3-5)
Compare changes in an organism's ecosystem/habitat that affect its survival.
Grade Five Indicators
5. Support how an organism's patterns of behavior are related to the nature of that organism's ecosystem, including the kinds and numbers of other organisms present, the availability of food and resources, and the changing physical characteristics of the ecosystem.