Grade Three through Grade Five
To solve this Quest you need to be brave enough to enter the dragon’s lair. There you will receive a message from the dragon that will take you across Asia revealing what you can do to help endangered species. What will YOU do to stop extinction?
Standards Addressed by this Topic:
Life Sciences
Benchmark C (3-5)
Compare changes in an organism's ecosystem/habitat that affect its survival.
Grade Five Indicator
5. Support how an organism's patterns of behavior are related to the nature of that organism's ecosystem, including the kinds and numbers of other organisms present, the availability of food and resources, and the changing physical characteristics of the ecosystem.
Scientific Ways of Knowing
Benchmark B (3-5)
Describe different types of investigations and use results and data from investigations to provide the evidence to support explanations and conclusions.
Grade Five Indicator
4. Identify how scientists use different kinds of ongoing investigations depending on the questions they are trying to answer (e.g., observations of things or events in nature, data collection and controlled experiments).