Pre-Visit Activities : Adaptations : Standards Supported
Third - Fifth Grade Online Curriculum : Communities

Grade Level

Standards

3rd Grade

3-1.1, 3-1.3, 3-2.1, 3-2.2, 3-2.3, 3-2.4

4th Grade

4-1.6, 4-2.2, 4-2.3, 4-2.5

5th Grade

5-2.4, 5-2.5
* Bold standards are the main standards addressed in this activity.

Third Grade Indicators

3-1.1 Classify objects by two of their properties (attributes).
3-1.3

Generate questions such as “what if?” or “how?” about objects, organisms, and events in the environment and use those questions to conduct a simple scientific investigation.
3-2.1

Illustrate the life cycles of seed plants and various animals and summarize how they grow and are adapted to conditions within their habitats.
3-2.2

Explain how physical and behavioral adaptations allow organisms to survive (including hibernation, defense, locomotion, movement, food obtainment, and camouflage for animals and seed dispersal, color, and response to light for plants).
3-2.3 Recall the characteristics of an organism’s habitat that allow the organism to survive there.
3-2.4

Explain how changes in the habitats of plants and animals affect their survival.

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Fourth Grade Indicators

4-1.6

Construct and interpret diagrams, tables, and graphs made from recorded measurements and observations.
4-2.2 Explain how the characteristics of distinct environments (including swamps, rivers and streams, tropical rain forests, deserts, and the polar regions) influence the variety of organisms in each.
4-2.3 Explain how humans and other animals use their senses and sensory organs to detect signals from the environment and how their behaviors are influenced by these signals.
4-2.5

Explain how an organism’s patterns of behavior are related to its environment (including the kinds and the number of other organisms present, the availability of food and other resources, and the physical characteristics of the environment).

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Fifth Grade Indicators

5-2.4

Identify the roles of organisms as they interact and depend on one another through food chains and food webs in an ecosystem, considering producers and consumers (herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores), decomposers (microorganisms, termites, worms, and fungi), predators and prey, and parasites and hosts.

5-2.5

Explain how limiting factors (including food, water, space, and shelter) affect populations in ecosystems.