Grade K-1 Year 3: Changing Lifestyles

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What is an environment?

In this lesson students will learn about living and nonliving things in their local environment.

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On successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to: classify living and nonliving things; observe, draw, label, and classify living and nonliving things in the local environment.

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What helps plants and animals live in places?

In this lesson students will learn about animals using camouflage as an adaptation to hide.

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On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to: describe camouflage; explain how animals protect themselves using camouflage by writing about and/or labeling drawings.

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How do plants and animals need each other?

In this lesson students will learn how plants and animals including humans need each other in a local environment.

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On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to: describe how plants and animals need each other; draw and label a picture of how local plants and animals need each other to survive.

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What is a natural resource?

In this lesson students will learn about water as a natural resource. They will investigate how water is used in their local community.

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On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to: observe and describe local sources of water; draw and label or write about a picture of two ways water is used in their life.

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How can we protect natural resources?

In this lesson students will learn about protecting natural resources. . They will investigate how to reduce, reuse, and recycle in their community.

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On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to: describe ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle materials in their local area; design and create a toy by reusing materials

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Community Project

In this culminating project, students use scientific processes and inquiry, along with local knowledge to identify and propose a solution to a local problem.

On successful completion of all units in Theme 3 (Changing Lifestyles), students will be able to answer the following question with detail and specific examples appropriate to their age group: How can my community adapt to a changing landscape?

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