The student will investigate how living things interact with one another and with nonliving elements of their environment.

I

Recognize that humans have five senses and be able to discriminate among these.

The Senses

Sensory Concentration

Get an Earful

Hearing Class Activity

Taste Class Activity

Smell Class Activity

Touch Class Activity

I Know That Vision and Sound

Sound and Hearing

Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment 

The student will investigate how living things interact with one another and with nonliving elements of their environment.

Living Things Need Each Other

D

Use the senses to explore the environment.

I

Collect information about organisms that occupy specific environments.

The Wild Habitat

Habitats.ppt

I

Provide examples of pollutants in a specific environment.

Clean the Air

Pollution Quiz

Smog City

Pollution Prevention Guide

Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment

The student will investigate how living things interact with one another and with nonliving elements of their environment.

I

Categorize objects as living or nonliving.

Leaf Classification

Sorting and Classifying Leaves

Living and Nonliving

BBC Schools:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/living_things.shtml

D

Determine how animals interact with the living and nonliving elements in their environment through the senses.

The Senses

BBC Schools:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/living_things.shtml

I

Determine how organisms interact with the nonliving elements of their environment.

Oil Spills

BBC Schools:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/living_things.shtml

D

Recognize different types of pollutants.

Grade 3

The student will investigate how living things interact with one another and with nonliving elements of their environment.

D

Examine an object’s characteristics to determine if the object is living or nonliving.

Ourselves

A

E

Distinguish between living and nonliving things in an illustration.

D

Explain how plants and animals depend upon each other and the nonliving elements of an environment to meet basic needs.

Master Bug Theater

A

E

Select the plants and animals found in a specific environment.

A

E

Identify the sense used to collect specific information.

The Senses

D

Describe how environments are affected by various kinds of pollution.

Tour the Rainforest

A

E

Identify the environment that has been impacted by pollutants.

Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment

The student will investigate how living things interact with one another and with nonliving elements of their environment.

I

Examine and relate how plants and animals interact with each other and their environment.

Food Chain

Science Vocabulary Lesson

Food Chain

Affecting Environments

A

E

Select plants and animals found in a specific environment.

Habitats

Habitat Game

Habitat Spellchecker

Wild Connection

A

E

Recognize how plants and animals interact with each other in their environment.

Interdependence and Adaptation

EcoKids

I

Provide evidence and give examples of environmental changes caused by living things.

EcoKids

Clean Up Your World (click Skip Advertisement)

A

E

Identify ways that organisms affect their environment.

Reptile Adaptation

Grade 5

The student will investigate how living things interact with one another and with nonliving elements of their environment.

D

Classify specific kinds of relationships among plants and animals within an ecosystem.

Explore the Fantastic Forest

Ecokids online: http://www.ecokidsonline.com/pub/eco_info/topics/frogs/chain_reaction/index.cfm#

NASA Biomes: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/Biome/plantindex.html

A

E

Determine various types of plant and animal relationships within an ecosystem.

The Environment and Ecosystems

D

Predict the consequences of a human action on the environment.

Ecosystems, biomes, and habitats

A

E

Identify environmental changes caused by living things.

Eco-Explorer

Internet Resource:  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/14/g35/

A

E

Predict the effects of human actions and/or natural disasters on the environment.

It Stinks! Extinction

Tiki the Penguin: http://tiki.oneworld.net/penguin/pollution/pollution_home.html

EPA Kids Page: http://www.epa.gov/kids/

Internet Resource:  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/15/g35/living.html 

Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment

The student will investigate how living things interact with one another and with nonliving elements of their environment.

Key

Reporting

Category

A

IL

Distinguish between commensalism, parasitism, and mutualism.

D

Distinguish between predators and prey.
The Living Sea Predators and Prey

Predator or Prey?

A

IL

Recognize how animals and plants are interdependent.
Interdependence and Adaptation Lesson Plan
The Food Chain

Food Chains and Food Webs

Chain Reaction

A

IL

Predict whether an organism can survive in a particular ecosystem.

Form and Function
Build A Beast

D

Interpret how humans impact ecosystems.

Interactions Between Living Things and Their Environment

The student will investigate how living things interact with one another and with nonliving elements of their environment

Key

Reporting

Category

D

Characterize the major biomes according to specific environmental features and identify the organisms commonly found in these areas.

Biomes

K-4 Biomes Module

Kids Do Ecology Biomes

What’s It Like Where You Live?

Movie:  Land Biomes

Biome Scavenger Hunt

Biome Song 1

Biome Song 2

Ecosystem/biome games

Biome Basics

A

IL

Distinguish among commensalisms, parasitism, and mutualism.

Symbosis

A

IL

Identify the earth’s major biomes.

Major Biomes of the World

Brain Pop – Land Biomes

World biomes

World biomes

A

IL

Choose the appropriate biome for an organism, given a description.

Mission: Biomes

Aquatic Ecology Lesson

A

IL

Identify biotic and abiotic factors in a biome.

Living and non-living things quiz