Life Science

Adaptations

    Adaptation is the process where an organism becomes better suited to its habitat.   

    A science lesson & video on animal and plant adaptions for kids in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade.

    Watch the video, play the vocab game, read & respond and take the quiz.

    Organisms develop certain features that aid their survival.

Food Chains and Food Webs

  

   


     Examines the food chain and the interdependence of plants and animals. 01:39 minutes

     Describes how producers, consumers, and decomposers can be linked to one another. 01:29 minutes

     A food chain shows how each living thing gets food.

   Food Webs

     A food web is a diagram that shows how food chains are linked together into more complex feed relationships.

    Learn how organisms consume and transfer energy in an ecosystem

     Every living plant and animal must have energy to survive.

     Marine food webs describe the linkages between all living organisms found in the marine environment.

Learned & Inherited Traits

    Listen to the rap song that tells the difference between inherited and acquired traits.

    Watch a short video, look at examples, and learn the vocabulary.

Six interactive mysteries have a lot of information about plants and how they grow at this site for elementary students.

Learn about the life history and defining characteristics of plants.

Find links to the life cycles of frogs, ants, butterflies, and much more.

Plants provide us with many essentials, like oxygen and food. Plants, like majestic trees and colorful flowers, also add beauty to the world.

Updated 1/25/2024