Strand B. Life Systems; Growth and Changes in Animals

The What is an Insect? e-book explores the amazing world of insects while showing the characteristics and diversity of insects.

Students develop their observation and comparing and contrasting skills as they explore the size of dinosaurs.

Students will use observing and sorting & classifying skills to learn that dinosaurs are extinct animals that share common characteristics.

Different members of a species can have different traits. You can see this in a species found at your local pet store - guppies!

Play a game of hide and seek to discover how animals can hide in plain sight!

Animals have some unique adaptations to stay warm. Discover what conduction of heat and insulation have to do with staying warm!

Students develop and apply the skills of questioning, sorting & classifying and making connections as they explore food chains in different habitats.

Students develop and apply collaboration & communication and computational thinking skills to learn the ways in which animals adapt to their environments.

Students develop sorting & classifying and comparing & contrasting skills as they investigate the life cycles of animals.

20 images of animal pairs such as polar bears, turtle, dogs and birds in their juvenile and adult stages of life