Post-Visit Activities : Helping Wildlife Communities : Standards Supported
Third - Fifth Grade Online Curriculum : Communities

Grade Level

Standards

3rd Grade

3-1.2, 3-1.3, 3-2.2, 3-2.3, 3-2.4

4th Grade

4-2.1, 4-2.2, 4-2.5, 4-2.6

5th Grade

5-1.6, 5-1.7, 5-2.3, 5-2.5, 5-3.6
* Bold standards are the main standards addressed in this activity.
** Research performed by students could influence standards addressed in this activity.

Third Grade Indicators

3-1.2 Classify objects or events in sequential order.
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.
3-2.2

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

4-2.1

Classify organisms into major groups (including plants or animals, flowering or nonflowering plants, and vertebrates [fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals] or invertebrates) according to their physical characteristics.

4-2.2 Distinguish among observations, predictions, and inferences
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).

4-2.6

Explain how organisms cause changes in their environment.

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Fifth Grade Indicators

5-1.6 Evaluate results of an investigation to formulate a valid conclusion based on evidence and communicate the findings of the evaluation in oral or written form.
5-1.7

Use a simple technological design process to develop a solution or a product, communicating the design by using descriptions, models, and drawings.

5-2.3

Compare the characteristics of different ecosystems (including estuaries/salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests, and grasslands).
5-2.5 Explain how limiting factors (including food, water, space, and shelter) affect populations in ecosystems.
5-3.6

Explain how human activity (including conservation efforts and pollution) has affected the land and the oceans of Earth.