Unit
1
Seeking Shelter
Timeline
- Lesson 1A: 2.5 hours
- Lesson 1B: 3 hours
- Unit 1 Review:
- Summative Assessment: 10 minutes
- Putting It All Together: 45 minutes
Essential Statements
- I can feel warmth from the sun and light.
- I can tell you why some animals seek warmth in the sun.
- I can measure the temperature of the air using a Fahrenheit thermometer.
Essential Questions
What causes something to get warmer?
How do animals use heat to stay warm?
Vocabulary
- Amphibians — cold-blooded animals that have smooth, moist skin and that often need fresh water or cool, moist habitats (Lesson 1B)
- Bird — warm-blooded animal covered with feathers and lays hard-shelled eggs (Lesson 1B)
- Cold-blooded — animals that get their heat from the outside weather, including reptiles and amphibians (Lesson 1B)
- Energy — the ability to do work (Lesson 1A)
- Fahrenheit — scale people often used in the United States to measure the temperature (Lesson 1B)
- Heat energy — amount of energy within something (Lesson 1A)
- Mammals — warm-blooded animals with fur or hair, nurse young, and have live births (Lesson 1B)
- Prediction — the best guess you have based on the information you know (Lesson 1A)
- Reptiles — cold-blooded animals that have dry, scaly skin and that often live in warm, dry habitats (Lesson 1B)
- Temperature — the measurement of how hot or cool it is (Lesson 1A)
- Thermometer — the tool to measure the temperature; how hot or cool it is (Lesson 1B)
- Warm-blooded — animals that keep the same body temperature no matter the weather, including mammals (people) and birds (Lesson 1B)