3.LS3.C.1: Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular ecosystem…

Who Lives Here? Grades 3–4

A schoolyard survey with string squares and hand lenses, sorting animals by their features, life cycles from caterpillar to butterfly, and who can live in which habitat. Students look, count and sketch but never collect or harm. Works in any climate and any country, in a garden, on pavement or in a desert.

• Who can live here, and who can't? 45–60 min

  Teams compare what lives under a board with what lives on the bare ground beside it, and feel which is damper. Then they judge six animals against the schoolyard's food, water and shelter, and argue with evidence which can live here well, which less well and which not at all.

Printable practice for 3.LS3.C.1

These pages practise a closely related idea; the match to 3.LS3.C.1 is partial.

• Who Lives Here? 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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