Describes the physical characteristics that demonstrate how animals…
Describes the physical characteristics that demonstrate how animals adapt to their environment (a lower-grade match: whiskers, owl ears, echolocation).
The Québec Education Program: Science and Technology outcome (Living Things: Systems and interaction) for Grades 1–2 says: “Describes the physical characteristics that demonstrate how animals adapt to their environment (a lower-grade match: whiskers, owl ears, echolocation).” This Fieldbook unit teaches it hands-on, with everyday materials and a printable teacher guide and student sheet for every lesson. Official wording: Québec Education Program: Science and Technology.
Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? Grade 4
Map the most sensitive spots on your skin, find the blind spot in each eye, lose the flavour of a jelly bean by pinching your nose, and build an owl ear. Four lessons on how senses gather information and the brain makes sense of it.
- Where is your skin most sensitive? 45–60 min
Students use a bent paper clip to touch the skin with one point or two, and find the smallest gap they can feel as two on the fingertip, palm, back of the hand and forearm. Then they explain why fingertips are built for reading the world.
- Why do you have two eyes? 45–60 min
Students try to touch a pen cap to a pen tip ten times with one eye covered and ten times with both eyes open, then make a dot vanish into their own blind spot. They explain what two eyes give the brain that one eye can't.
- Can your nose change what you taste? 45–60 min
With eyes closed and noses pinched, students try to name the flavour of a jelly bean and tell a cube of apple from a cube of potato. Then they let go of their noses and explain why most of what we call taste is really smell.
- How do animals sense what we can't? 60 min
Students read about whiskers, echolocation and owl ears, build a paper cone 'owl ear' and test whether it helps them find where a sound comes from. Then they define a problem and invent a sensor or tool inspired by an animal.
Printable practice for this outcome
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- Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? 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.
- Flowers, Fruit and Seeds: How Plants Make More Plants workbook included with the unit
3 English-support pages, 3 practice pages, 3 readings, 1 word wall, 1 unit review, 1 unit test, with answer keys.
- How Your Body Works workbook included with the unit
4 English-support pages, 4 practice pages, 4 readings, 1 word wall, 1 unit review, 1 unit test, with answer keys.
- Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable 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.
- Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook included with the unit
2 readings, 1 word wall, 1 English-support page, 1 practice page, 1 unit review, 1 unit test, with answer keys.
- Groundhog Day Shadow Science free pack
2 mini books, 1 reading, 1 cut-and-paste page, 1 assessment, with answer keys. Free sample.
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Compared with NGSS: 4-LS1-1 (partial).
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