All of YMCA Camp Cherokee’s Environmental Education classes are adjustable to your students’ needs. We have hands on activities for students who are just beginning school to those entering high school. Read below to find out more!
Habitats and Adaptations
Goal: Students will observe and explain the habitats around them and adaptations that help animals survive.
Objectives:
Students will construct explanations of what helps different animals survive (2.L.5A.2).
Students will construct explanations and find examples of characteristics of organisms that are inherited from parents and the environment (4.L.5A.4).
Students will construct explanations for and experience how camouflage allows animals to survive in the environment (4.L.5B.3).
Topics:
Adaptations
Habitat
Abiotic
Biotic
Erosion
Deposition
Producers
Consumers
Decomposers
Mastery:
Students will identify and explain the need for physical adaptations.
Students will observe and infer about the habitats in our forest.
Students will experience, through activities, how adaptations help animals.
