Week 4: Adaptations

NOS: Scientists search for cause and effect relationships to explain natural events.
Provide picture books and fact books about animal adaptations.
Key Vocabulary: adaptation, camouflage, activist, leader
At the end of this week students will be able to:
 Explain effects of humans interacting with the environment (both positive and negative)
ELD Reading Block Read Aloud Science
Continue Introduce key vocabulary: Hoot Ch. 11 Camouflage Butterfly wings--connect
caterpillar adaptation Why would the to MSB
observations camouflage owl be a sandy Why does a butterfly need to protect
Monday

Language focus: brown color? itself?

“because,” “so” Continue Jigsaw research Project— (camouflage) Study different butterfly wings—how
sentence frames Expert Groups do these help protect it? Would this
butterfly be able to hide here?

Observations Read butterfly camouflage book w/ Hoot Ch. 12 Vision Adaptation lesson-“Seeing is
refer to text activity What would you Believing” (Project WILD, p. 116-117)
Because, so do if you were
Tuesday

sentence frames Continue Jigsaw research Project Roy? Would you

w/ caterpillars lie to help your
friend?

Observations Introduce key vocabulary: Hoot Ch. 13 What was are humans hurting the
Activist What do you think owls’ habitat in Hoot? What are other
language focus: leader Roy should do? ways humans can hurt animal
Wednesday

putting detail habitats?

phrases into Continue Jigsaw research Project “Ethi-thinking” (Project WILD, p.
complete 303-304)
sentences
(jigsaw)
Observations Even with adaptations, sometimes Hoot Ch. 14 Magic School Bus Goes to Seed (S1,
humans change animal habitats and Add details about E11) with watch along activity
Writing make it difficult for them to survive. owl diet to FL
Thursday

complete detail Read about monarch and honey bee poster Flipgrid Journal Response
sentences conservation (TPT) Add animal/plant What would happen if all of the
(jigsaw) names to FL pollinators couldn’t do their jobs?
Continue Jigsaw research Project poster

Observations Read Bug Hotel by Libby Waldon Hoot Ch. 15 “Everybody Needs a Home” (Project
Pretend w/ problem and solution lesson How would WILD, p. 59).
interview /video writing a letter How can we provide
about butterflies Continue Jigsaw research Project help save the food/shelter/water/space for more
Friday

and habitat owls? living things in the courtyard?

conservation Who could we write a letter to?