Looking for Life
Timeline
- Lesson 2A: 2 hours
- Lesson 2B: 2.5 hours
- Lesson 2C: 2 hours
- Lesson 2D: 2 hours
- Unit 2 Review
- Summative Assessment: 10 minutes
- Putting It All Together: 30 minutes
Essential Statements
- I can compare what happens to plants when they receive different amounts of light.
- I can compare what happens to plants when they receive different amounts of water.
- I can make observations of the living things in the world around me.
- I can compare different habitats.
- I can observe and identify the diversity of different habitats.
- I can compare different microhabitats.
- I can observe and identify the diversity of different microhabitats.
Essential Questions
- Where would a sunflower grow best in your schoolyard?
- What do plants need to grow?
- Are the numbers of plants and animals different in different places?
- Are the same insects or creepy crawlies always found in the same microhabitats?
Unit
2
Vocabulary
- Diversity — different types of plants and animals in one place (Lesson 2C/2D)
- Energy — the power needed by all living things to grow, develop, and stay alive (Lesson 2A/2B)
- Field guides — books that help the user identify what they are observing in nature (Lesson 2B/2D)
- Forest — a habitat with mostly trees (Lesson 2A/2C)
- Germinate — when a seed starts to grow (Lesson 2A)
- Glade — a habitat that has many rocks, sunlight, and small shrubby trees (Lesson 2C)
- Habitat — where something lives; provides a living thing with food, water, shelter, and space (Lesson 2C)
- Insect — small animals with skeletons on the outside, six legs, one pair of antennae, and a body that is divided into three parts. They may or may not have wings. (Lesson 2D)
- Living thing — something that can grow or reproduce; like a bird, tree, mammal, etc. (Lesson 2C/2D)
- Microhabitat — a small habitat or space where organisms like insects, spiders, and worms may live (Lesson 2D)
- Need — required for survival (Lesson 2A/2B)
- Nonliving thing — something that cannot grow or reproduce but helps living things to survive; like the sun, water, air, rocks, sticks, etc. (Lesson 2C/2D)
- Nutrients — substances that plants get from the soil, such as nitrogen, which a plant needs to grow and be healthy (Lesson 2B)
- Pond — a small body of water surrounded by land (Lesson 2C)
- Prairie — a habitat with mostly grass and some flowering plants (Lesson 2A/2C)
- Roots — the part of a plant usually underground that keeps the plant from moving and gathers water and food (minerals) from the soil (Lesson 2B)
- Sprout — the first leaf seen above the ground after a seed germinates (Lesson 2A/2B)