Description
Habitat Unit for third grade. Students will learn about animal habitats and specifically about desert habitat and the animals and plants that live there. Students will learn about adaptations and biodiversity. Students will learn that sometimes habitat changes and animals must adapt or leave the habitat. This resource can be used as a Distance Learning Packet.
This resource addresses the 3rd grade standards for NGSS 3-LS4-3 and 3-LS4-4 It can be used for learning about animal and plant adaptations. This resource includes 5 pages of nonfiction text on habitats and plant and animal adaptations. Students will learn about abiotic and biotic factors and how they interact in an ecosystem. Students will learn that organisms must adapt to their habitat or they will not survive. Specific information is given on desert habitat and adaptations for organisms living there and then students are expected to research another habitat to find out about its characteristics and how animals and plants survive in that habitat. A printable layered book is included that they can fill in the information they gather from their research. This resource includes response pages, interactive notebook flaps and folds, and text-dependent questions. It also includes sorting cards and two task cards that students can use in small groups, partners, or as fast finishers. Answer keys are included. This resource begins and ends with the use of the phenomenon.
This resource is designed specifically to meet the NGSS standards for 3rd-grade Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity: Habitat
NGSS 3-LS4-3. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive
less well, and some cannot survive at all.
NGSS 3-LS4-4. Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.
This resource also addresses Utah SEEd standards
Utah SEEd Standard 3.2.5 Engage in argument from the evidence that in a particular habitat (system) some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. Emphasize that organisms and habitats form systems in which the parts depend upon each other. Examples of evidence could include the needs and characteristics of the organisms and habitats involved such as cacti growing in dry, sandy soil but not surviving in wet, saturated soil. (LS4.C)
