Grade Two through Grade 12
This program will reveal some of the extremes of the Animal Kingdom. Do stinkbugs really stink? What primate has an eight foot arm span? What is the largest spider in the world? Come along as we venture into the fascinating world of animal adaptations.
Standards Addressed by this Topic:
Life Sciences
Benchmark B (K-2)
Explain how organisms function and interact with their physical environment.
Grade Two Indicator
6. Investigate the different structures of plants and animals that help them live in different environments.
Benchmark C (K-2)
Describe similarities and differences that exist among individuals of the same kind of plants and animals.
Grade Two Indicator
4. Compare similarities and differences among individuals of the same kind of plants and animals, including people.
Benchmark A (3-5)
Differentiate between the life cycles of different plants and animals.
Grade Four Indicator
5. Describe how organisms interact with one another in various ways.
Benchmark B (3-5)
Analyze plant and animal structures and functions needed for survival and describe the flow of energy through a system that all organisms use to survive.
Grade Three Indicator
2. Relate animal structures to their specific survival functions.
Benchmark C (3-5)
Compare changes in an organism's ecosystem/habitat that affect its survival.
Grade Five Indicators
4. Summarize that organisms can survive only in ecosystems in which their needs can be met (e.g., food, water, shelter, air, carrying capacity and waste disposal). The world has different ecosystems and distinct ecosystems support the lives of different types of organisms.
Benchmark B (6-8)
Describe the characteristics of an organism in terms of a combination of inherited traits and recognize reproduction as a characteristic of living organisms essential to the continuation of the species.
Grade Seven Indicator
8. Investigate the great diversity among organisms.
Grade Eight Indicator
3. Explain how variations in structure, behavior or physiology allow some organisms to enhance their reproductive success and survival in a particular environment.
Benchmark C (6-8)
Explain how energy entering the ecosystems as sunlight supports the life of organisms through photosynthesis and the transfer of energy through the interactions of organisms and the environment.
Grade Six Indicator
8. Describe how organisms may interact with one another.
Grade Seven Indicator
2. Investigate how organisms or populations may interact with one another through symbiotic relationships and how some species have become so adapted to each other that neither could survive without the other.
Benchmark E (9-10)
Explain how evolutionary relationships contribute to an understanding of the unity and diversity of life.
Grade 10 Indicator
14. Relate diversity and adaptation to structures and their functions in living organisms.