ways, which may affect their survival. How do Trade Book: How Mountains are The environment may change I can analyze and interpret ecosystems Made in ways that affect a place’s data to describe how an change? Picture Book: Earth Then and Now physical characteristics, ecosystem has changed. ReadWorks text: Invaders of the temperature and available Ecosystem resources. Color picture set Data sets for different places collected over time (physical char., water distribution, temperature, resources) What do fossils Examine fossils from KY Some kinds of plants and I can analyze and interpret tell us about life Book: Fossils of KY guide animals that once lived on data about fossils to provide in the past? Science Mystery Whale in the Earth are no longer found evidence of what – desert anywhere. Fossils provide environments were like long Students make fossils or evidence about the types of ago. Chocolate chip excavation. organisms that lived long ago and also about the nature of their environments. How do Extinction research When an ecosystem changes, I can construct an argument organisms Endangered species research some organisms survive and collected evidence that respond to Migratory animals research reproduce, some move to new explains how organisms changes in an locations, and some may die. respond to changes in an ecosystem? ecosystem. I can describe the relationships between events and organisms’ responses using cause and effect text structure. (RI.3.3)
ways, which may affect their survival. How do ecosystems change? Trade Book: How Mountains are Made Picture Book: Earth Then and Now ReadWorks text: Invaders of the Ecosystem Color picture set Data sets for different places collected over time (physical char., water distribution, temperature, resources) The environment may change in ways that affect a place’s physical characteristics, temperature and available resources. I can analyze and interpret data to describe how an ecosystem has changed. What do fossils tell us about life in the past? Examine fossils from KY Book: Fossils of KY guide Science Mystery – Whale in the desert Students make fossils or Chocolate chip excavation. Some kinds of plants and animals that once lived on Earth are no longer found anywhere. Fossils provide evidence about the types of organisms that lived long ago and also about the nature of their environments. I can analyze and interpret data about fossils to provide evidence of what environments were like long ago. How do organisms respond to changes in an ecosystem? Extinction research Endangered species research Migratory animals research When an ecosystem changes, some organisms survive and reproduce, some move to new locations, and some may die. I can construct an argument collected evidence that explains how organisms respond to changes in an ecosystem. I can describe the relationships between events and organisms’ responses using cause and effect text structure. (RI.3.3)
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