Grade: Upper Elementary
TurfMutt Lesson Plans Grades 3-5
Essential questions:
- How do plants absorb carbon and help lower global warming?
- Do we water plants or do plants water the world around them?
- How does having a lot of plants in your home add moisture to the air? Do you think the green plants in your yard are transpiring water right now?
- Do you think all plants transpire water the same way? What do you think happens to the water that evaporates into the air outside?
- What is the water cycle?
- What does the word wildlife mean? What does wildlife need to survive? What are some examples of wildlife that live around us?
- What animals or insects live in our backyards and communities? How are their needs met?
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A backyard wildlife habitat scavenger hunt, learning about the water cycle, and putting on a dramatic play to defeat carbon creep await students in grades 3-5 in these fun lesson plans from TurfMutt.
Next Generation Science Standards covered are:
- Standard 3. Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: Environmental Impacts on Organisms (Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all)
- 4-LS1-1. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction
- 4-ESS3-2. Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans
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