3-LS4-2: Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in…

Survival Clues: Fossils, Groups and Changing Habitats Grade 3

Four no-materials lessons on what helps living things survive: reading fossil cards from Antarctica to the Himalaya to work out what places were like long ago, a predator-and-prey game on why animals live in groups, a camouflage hunt on printed bark and sand, and case files on what happens when a habitat changes. Everything runs on printed sheets.

• Why do some animals in a family survive better? 45–60 min

  Students play hungry birds hunting printed beetles of two colours on dark bark and pale sand, then read cards on thorny plants, thick fur and long-tailed birds. They explain how small differences between animals of the same kind help some survive, find mates and have young.

Printable practice for 3-LS4-2

These pages practise a closely related idea; the match to 3-LS4-2 is partial.

• Survival Clues: Fossils, Groups and Changing Habitats workbook included with the unit

  1 word wall, 1 English-support page, 1 practice page, 1 reading, 1 unit review, 1 unit test, with answer keys.

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