Life Science: Characteristics and Growth of Organisms

Grade(s): 4

Subject(s): Science

Year: 2014

Title:
Can you find me?
Can you find me?

Lesson

Grades: 4

Students will learn about how animals use camouflage as an adaptation by participating in an inquiry-based assignment.

Sensory Organs
Sensory Organs

Lesson

Grades: 4

Students will be able to complete the lesson on their own through videos and individual research.

Polar Bear Adaptation
Polar Bear Adaptation

Lesson

Grades: 4

Students will learn about animal adaptations by an inquiry project about polar bears.

Bird adaptations
Bird adaptations

Lesson

Grades: 4

Students will engage in a project-based learning lesson to discover how beak adaptations affect what birds eat.

Plant Investigations
Plant Investigations

Lesson

Grades: 4

Students receive foundational information in the previous grade about the plant life cycles. The teacher should begin the discussion assessing student’s prior knowledge about plants including, the...

 Birds of Prey | Eye Wonder
Birds of Prey | Eye Wonder

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Eye Wonder team learns about birds of prey. D.V. visits a center for birds of prey and learns about the different physical attributes of these birds and how they are cared for and released into...
 Snakes, Snakes, Snakes | Project Discovery Revisited
Snakes, Snakes, Snakes | Project Discovery Revisited

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

When the Museum of York County had a special exhibit on snakes, the Project Discovery crew visited the exhibit with naturalist Rudy Mancke of PBS’s NatureScene. There are many myths about snakes, most...
 Meeting Big Backyard Monsters | Project Discovery Revisited
Meeting Big Backyard Monsters | Project Discovery Revisited

Video

Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

The creatures at the South Carolina State Museum are big monsters found in your backyard. Because the bugs are much larger than the actual insects, details, as seen from the perspective of their prey...