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Cara Bosler

Kinds of Adaptation | reading - 2 views

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    Reading that can be used to expand students knowledge about the variety of adaptations organisms can possess. Check out the other articles on this page under the heading "other people are reading". Aligns with 4.3.C.a and 4.3.C.b
Cara Bosler

adaptations reading_low.pdf - 1 views

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    Lower level reading on adaptions
Cara Bosler

Adaptation - YouTube - 1 views

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    Cute song helping build background knowledge on adaptations
Cara Bosler

Animal Adaptations - REPOST - YouTube - 1 views

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    Another version of MrParr's adaptation song. More eye appealing.
Cara Bosler

Parrotfish Help Keep Coral Reefs Colorful - 1 views

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    Short description of the fish. Gives students an example of an adaptation helping an organism survive in it's environment (4.3.C.a).
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    These are absolutely amazing. Until my students first watched a school of these "pooping clouds of sand" over the reef, I don't think they truly believed that a significant percentage of the white sand on coral beaches originated in the digestive tract of a parrotfish.
Cara Bosler

Arctic Adaptations - National Geographic Education - 1 views

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    Project based lesson plan. If technology is not available, you could print off the animal resource pages using the National Geographic Animals website and library resources.
Cara Bosler

How to Explain Survival of the Fittest - HowStuffWorks - 2 views

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    Ideas of how to introduce adaptations to students
Cara Bosler

adaptations reading_mid.pdf - Google Drive - 1 views

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    On grade level reading.
Cara Bosler

Newsela | A hotter Earth needs farm animals that can adapt and feed billions of us - 2 views

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    Aligns with 4.3.C.a
charbradley

Natural Selection of Bean Hunters - 4 views

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    Students are given different "adaptations" (spoon, knife, tape, fork, etc) and have 3 minutes to "hunt" for different bean species. Might need to be modified a bit...
Cara Bosler

Newsela | Some clever chimps stage escape at Kansas City Zoo - 1 views

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    Some clever chimps stage escape at Kansas City Zoo
Cara Bosler

Natural Selection - Natural Selection, Evolution, Mutation - PhET - 1 views

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    Simulation **if you get a message that it can't be opened, go to the apple in the upper left, click on system preferences, click on Security and Privacy and then click on Open Anyway at the bottom.
charbradley

Origami Birds and Natural Selection - 6 views

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    Students make "birds" by using straws and paper strips. By the flip of a coin, the "bird" mutates and is tested to see if the mutation is beneficial or not.
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