This lesson will help students understand that animals need to adapt to keep up with their changing environment. Students will learn about some environmental changes and how animals adapt to them, as well as exploring terms like migration and camouflage, and what animals do to secure survival. (Most appropriate for grade levels 3-5.)
Science Standards:
3.LS.2: Individuals of the same kind of organism differ in their inherited traits. These differences give some individuals an advantage in surviving and/or reproducing.
4.LS.1: Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful.
5.LS.1: Organisms perform a variety of roles in an ecosystem.