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Animal Adaptations: A Grade One Science Unit
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Grade One Science: Animals [Core Unit]

Unit OverviewRelated Units
In this unit, a variety of animals are observed and compared; their needs and their adaptation to their environments are studied. The relationships among animals and between animals and humans are described, as is the development of animals from birth or hatching to maturity.

View the unit here.		 Related material will be covered in the grade 2 Core Unit Habitats. That unit will stress the complexity of the environment and how the environment functions as a home for plants, animals, and other living organisms. In the grade 2 Optional Units, Dinosaurs, and Foods, the ideas of change as a natural event and of interdependence of organisms reinforce the concepts of this unit.
The grade 3 Core Unit Animals reiterates the importance of habitat to animals and plants and introduces the part that humans play in the scheme of interdependence.
The grade 4 Optional Unit Vertebrates and Invertebrates, and the grade 6 Optional Unit Growth and Development continue the description of animals that begins in this unit.
Suggested ThemesFactors of Scientific Literacy to Emphasize
animal growth, farm animals, farms, food, homes, living things, pets, ranching
Common Essential Learnings to EmphasizeObjectives:
  • To use a wide range of language experiences for developing the student's knowledge of science. (COM)
  • To promote both intuitive, imaginative thought and the ability to evaluate ideas, processes, experiences, and objects in meaningful contexts. (CCT)
  • To support the development of a positive disposition toward lifelong learning. (IL)
1. Observe and describe many types of animals.
  1. Recognize characteristics which can be used to identify and describe animals.
  2. Identify, by sight or by sound, a wide variety of animals.
  3. Classify animals on the basis of their size, their body coverings, the foods they eat, and their relationships to humans.
  4. Recognize that there are several ways in which the same set of animals may be classified.

2. Describe the basic needs of animals.
  1. Identify some animals which make good pets.
  2. Identify a pet's basic needs.
  3. Compare the needs of other animals with pets.

3. Explain how animals are adapted to their environments.
  1. Describe the habitats of some animals.
  2. Explore the ways that animals adapt to their environments.
  3. Explain how animals depend on their habitats for their basic needs.
  4. Observe, describe, or imitate how animals behave in their natural environments.

4. Describe the development of animals from birth or hatching to maturity.
  1. Describe the physical changes of several animals from the newly hatched or born to the mature adult.
  2. Compare the amount of care needed by the young of several species.
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