Kindergarten through Grade Six
The Zoo’s animal ambassadors are accompanied by the SMART Board Interactive whiteboard, adding video, sounds and graphics to provide a true multimedia experience! Learn about the fascinating characteristics and behaviors that help animals survive in their natural habitats.
Standards Addressed by this Topic:
Life Sciences
Benchmark A (K-2)
Discover that there are living things, non-living things and pretend things, and describe the basic needs of living things.
Grade One Indicator
1. Explore that organisms, including people, have basic needs which include air, water, food, living space, and shelter.
Grade Two Indicator
1. Explain that animals, including people, need air, water, food, living space, and shelter; plants need air, water, nutrients, living space and light to survive.
Benchmark B (K-2)
Explain how organisms function and interact with their physical environment.
Kindergarten Indicator
5. Investigate observable features of plants and animals that help them live in different kinds of places.
Grade One Indicator
3. Explore that humans and other animals have body parts that help to seek, find and take in food when they are hungry.
Grade Two indicators
2. Identify that there are many distinct environments that support different kinds of organisms.
3. Explain why organisms can survive only in environments that meet their needs.
6. Investigate the different structures of plants and animals that help them live in different environments.
Benchmark A (3-5)
Differentiate between the life cycles of different plants and animals.
Grade Four Indicator
5. Describe how organisms interact with one another in various ways.
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 Indicator
2. Relate animal structures to their specific survival functions.
Benchmark C (3-5)
Compare changes in an organism's ecosystem/habitat that affect its survival.
Grade Five Indicator
4. Summarize that organisms can survive only in ecosystems in which their needs can be met. The world has different ecosystems and distinct ecosystems support the lives of different types of organisms.
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