Design a new living thing and explain how it would acquire food, water, and air 0207.1.1

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1. Alien Assembly - What do aliens look like? You decide. Use the parts to build your very own alien.
2. Build a Dinosaur - interactive game from Scholastic.com using parts of several dinosaurs - students can click and put the parts together to create a dinosaur that really existed, or create an imaginary dinosaur of their own
3. Build Your Own Caterpillar - Build a caterpillar with the tools for surviving in its environment. Look at the environment and then choose the parts that will help your caterpillar have the best chance for survival.
4. Draw an Alien in its Natural Habitat - [designed for grade 3] Students will be able to apply what they have learned about living things, structures of living things and how living things sense and respond to their environment by creating a habitat and an alien that could live in that habitat.
5. Find My Legs - Help the spider find its legs by clicking on the right set of legs. After finishing the spider you will have another animal to help.
6. What is a Living Thing, and How Does a Living Thing Respond to Its Environment? - [Unit Overview - 6 lessons] - In this unit students are given time to think about and discuss the fundamental question, "What is a Living Thing?" They are also introduced to a process for planning science investigations on the topic of how different living things interact with their environment.

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