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Interactions Between Living Things
and Their Environment
1.2.2
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(based
on Tennessee Curriculum Standards) | Internet
Resources |
Use
the senses to explore the environment. 1.2.2 | - Amazing Animal Senses - let your students compare animal senses to human senses
- Christmas Bear and his Five Senses - [this link opens in a new window] Students teach Christmas Bear how to use his five senses to learn about his surroundings. (Author - Sandi King)
 
-
 Five Senses - A very complete online unit plan (bilingual - Spanish) that integrates all subject areas based around learning the 5 senses. 
- Five Senses and Four Seasons Quilt - Students will help make a Five Senses and Four Seasons quilt and cinquain poem.
- Learning to Look - five activities in one, introducing students to sensory investigation
- Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World - reading level is too high for your students, but this site is packed full of great information for their teacher
- Stick Out Your Tongue and Say Aah - full of good information to help a teacher plan a unit
- Teaching Children About the Five Senses - from Nibbles ... Ideas for Families presented by University of Illinois Extension
- The Senses - experiments and activities for kindergarten and above
- Touching - presented by The Franklin Institute
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Collect
information about organisms that occupy specific environments. 1.2.3
| - Critter
Craze - [this link opens on a new page] This lesson introduces the concepts of basic needs, grouping, and
habitats. (Author - Laurie Ayers)
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Match Animals to their
Habitat - [this link opens on a new page] select one of the twelve habitats at Animal Universe and choose
animals that live in that habitat (select Maybe Later on the
registration screen)
- Snuffy's Safari (Sesame Street) - [this link opens on a new page] travel to one of three environments and search for animals that live there using Sunffy's binoculars.
- Squish the Fish - [Reading skills required] Help Squish travel out across the reef to find his lunch. He needs to find friends who will help him hide from his nemesis, Big Tooth Blob. Learn about shape, color, and behavioral adaptations for survival.
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Provide examples
of pollutants in a specific environment. 1.2.4 |
- How bad is the air
you breathe? Learn how the air becomes dirty. (a quiz is included)
 - Learn
about pesticides. Are they good? What are they used for? (a quiz is included)
- Take
a test about how you use water! Twenty five questions that will help you be
a better user of water.
- What
is a hazardous waste? How does garbage effect you? (a quiz is included)
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| Food Production
and Energy for Life
1.3.1
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Recognize
the basic needs of living things (e.g., food, water, sunlight, and air). 1.3.1 |
- Critter
Craze - [this link opens on a new page] introduces the concepts of basic needs, grouping, and habitats (Author
- Laurie Ayers)
- Growing
Plants - give water to the plants in this interactive game from the BBC
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 Identify
Basic Needs of Living Things - You may want to remove some slides from
this show before using it. |
Diversity and Adaptation Among Living Things
1.5.1 | 1.5.2
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Observe
and note differences among plants and animals of the same kind. 1.5.1 |
- Ants
are not all alike - take a look at some of them
- Frogs
- See how differently from each other these frogs look and sound
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Recognize the
environment in which an organism is typically found. 1.5.2 |
- The Farm - [Reading skills required] Visit several areas of the farm and notice the different types of things which live there. This is an excellent beginning site that teaches your students about the farm in addition to practicing beginning computer skills such as clicking once and using arrow keys.
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Earth Science Standards  |
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Distinguish
between objects that appear in the day and nighttime sky. 1.7.1 a |
- As
the Earth Turns - [this link opens on a new page] Students learn that day and night are caused by the rotation
of the Earth. (Author - Sandi King)
- Sunrise
Sunset - [this link opens on a new page] Students learn about the apparent movement of the sun across the
day sky. Students then learn to relate time of day to the location of the sun.
(Author - Sandi King)
- The
Night Sky Live - best as a whole class activity - click on an asterisk on
the map to see the night sky live from someplace around the world.
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Recognize that
the moon is the closest object in the sky. 1.7.1 b |
- How
Can the Little Moon Hide the Giant Sun? - Students compare two objects at
different distances. Students explore the concept that distance affects how we
perceive the size of objects.
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Recognize that
there are tools for observing objects in the day and nighttime sky. 1.7.1
c | - A
Venn Diagram for recording things seen in the day and nighttime sky
(a worksheet from Science NetLinks)
 
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Observe and
illustrate the position of the sun at different times of the day. 1.7.2
a | - See
where the sun and moon are located - this applet allows students to see exactly
where the sun and moon are located in relation to Earth.
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Recognize that
shadows change length and position during the course of a day. 1.7.2
b | - What
Makes Shadows? Students learn about shadows as they observe and draw the shadow
of a classmate. In the extension activity, students observe and discuss shadows
changing over time.
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Recognize that
weather conditions are constantly changing. 1.8.1 a |
- Air and Weather - Cold, hot, warm, cool, what does the temperature mean to you?
- Control the Weather - [this link opens in a new window] by clicking on different buttons, you decide what the weather will be that day [click to Skip the Ad]
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Describe weather
patterns associated with the seasons. 1.8.1 b |
- Seasonal
Changes Lesson Plans From Scholastic - The activities in this theme unit take
advantage of opportunities for students to practice observation and description
skills, as well as extending students' experience into other curricular areas,
such as language arts and art.
- Winter Wiz Kids - all about winter weather
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Associate temperature,
precipitation, and wind conditions with various types of weather. 1.8.2
a | - Eye
on the Sky - [this link opens in a new window] the scientist (your student) is asked to enter weather observations.
Based on the entries, a summary of conditions is compiled
- Weather
in the Science Lab - Select Weather in the list of labs.
The illustration shows a water cycle. Click on The Weather Maker
near the top of the weather window. Set temperature of two air masses and the
relative humidity. Then see what weather develops. Click on the book
in the bottom left corner to read about weather.
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Identify
the appropriate tool for measuring temperature, precipitation, and wind speed/direction.
1.8.2.b | - Make
Your Own Weather Station - You can become an amateur meteorologist by building
your own weather station and keeping a record of your measurements. Use this as
a class project.
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Distinguish between
land and water environments. 1.9.1 | |
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Use
observable properties to distinguish among a variety of earth materials. 1.10.1
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- How Much Soil is There? - using an apple as an analogy
- Pebbles, Sand, and Silt - find out how earth materials are used all around us
- Rocks and Minerals - from The Franklin Institute
- Rocks and Soils - perform virtual experiments at this BBC interactive site
- Sand -
This web site is all about sand. It is a place where you can learn about sand, see a variety of different kinds of sand, and look at sands from different places around the world.
- Sands of the World - an interactive earth science project
- Soil Science and Worm Composting - lesson plan
- Soil Science Basics - links to other resources (some links are to dead pages)
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Identify
ways that earth resources benefit man. 1.10.2 |
- How
Minerals are Used - Move your cursor over each image to see a common item
made from that mineral.
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a Word document
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