2nd Quarter
IB Unit: Sharing the Planet
An organism's survival depends on its ability to adapt to its changing environment
Standards for this quarter
4.L.1 Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats.
4.L.1.1 Give examples of changes in an organism’s environment that are beneficial to it and some that are harmful.
4.L.1.2 Explain how animals meet their needs by using behaviors in response to information received from the environment.
4.L.1.3 Explain how humans can adapt their behavior to live in changing habitats (e.g., recycling wastes, establishing rain gardens, planting trees and shrubs to prevent flooding and erosion).
4.L.1.4 Explain how differences among animals of the same population sometimes give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing in changing habitats.
Family fun to support the unit: Go on a hike with your child and look at all the plants and animals you see. Talk about how they are adapted to live in the environment that they do. What special features help the to survive? what happens when the weather changes? How do they adapt? Remember to talk about what you do to adapt when our environment changes.
Take a look at the world around us and what footprint we as people can leave- good and bad- pollution, resource waste, landfills, recycling wastes, establishing rain gardens, planting trees and shrubs to prevent flooding and erosion.
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