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What does an animal's skull tell us about the type of food it eats, where it lives and how it thrives? Find out in this exciting session about predator and prey relationships! Students will use animal skulls to explore the role and function of specific species in the ecosystem. Students will gain a first-hand understanding of how population dynamics, competition for resources, and carving out a niche work in the ecosystem, based on the interactions of predators and the prey they eat.
Required Materials: None
Optional Materials: Use the Learning & Discussion guide to track your learning. Educators and parents can check answers with the answer key.
Tech Requirements: Hosted on Zoom
Recording: Run, Duck, Hide! Zoom Recording
Bonus! Guess that Animal video
Guess that Animal series video
Binocular/Monocular vision demo
Key Terms & Vocabulary
Herbivore Omnivore Carnivore Predator Prey
Niche Camouflage Adaptation Food chain Resources
Competition Binocular Monocular
NC Standard Course of Study Alignment for grades 4 through 8
Science
4th Grade
4.L.1 Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats.
4.L.2 Understand food and the benefits of vitamins, minerals and exercise.
5th Grade
5.L.1 Understand how structures and systems of organisms (to include the human body) perform functions necessary for life.
5.L.2 Understand the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystem.
5.L.3 Understand why organisms differ from or are similar to their parents based on the characteristics of the organism.
6th Grade
6.L.2 Understand the flow of energy through ecosystems and the responses of populations to the biotic and abiotic factors in their environment.
7th Grade
7.L.1 Understand the processes, structures and functions of living organisms that enable them to survive, reproduce and carry out the basic functions of life.
7.L.2 Understand the relationship of the mechanisms of cellular reproduction, patterns of inheritance and external factors to potential variation among offspring.
8th Grade
8.L.3 Understand how organisms interact with and respond to the biotic and abiotic components of their environment.
ELA
3rd Grade
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).
4th Grade
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.
By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
5th Grade
By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
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