Grade 4 Life Science: Habitats and Communities

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Grade 4 Life ScienceHabitats and Communities

• Created by Melissa Horvath

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Units Components

• 13 Lessons
• Pre-Lesson videos
• Gain an understanding of habitats and communities
• Learn about the four components of habitats that
  are necessary for survival
• Learning outside of the classroom

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Unit Components

• Assessment ongoing and includes a variety of
  tools
• Safety included in every lesson
• Clean up a bucket for all science journals,
  have a designated spot science area in
  classroom

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Outcomes

• HC4.1 Analyze the effects of human activities on
  habitats and communities. (Lessons 1 5, 13)
• HC4.2 Investigate the interdependence of plants
  and animals within specific habitats and
  communities. (Lesson 6 9, 13)
• HC4.3 Compare the structures and behaviours of
  animals and plants that allow them to exist in
  different habitats and communities. (Lessons 9
  13)

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Lesson 1 Habitat Lap Sit

• Outcome HC4.1, Indicator f
• Read The Magic School Bus Hops Home A Book About
  Habitats
• Students will be introduced to four main
  components of a habitat
• Create a circle to represent the interdependence
  of components

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Lesson 2 The Lorax

• Outcome HC4.1, Indicators c, f, h
• Show video of The Lorax
• Students complete and discuss guiding questions

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Lesson 3 Awi Usdi, the Little Deer

• Outcome HC4.1, Indicators a, b, c
• Read Awi Usdi, the Little Deer as a class
• Have a discussion about the connection that First
  Nations traditionally have to the land
• Create own legends using guiding questions
• Share legends with other students

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Lesson 4 What Did Your Lunch Cost Wildlife?
(Part 1)

• Outcome HC4.1, Indicator c
• Examine the foods that students brought for lunch
• Create a chart or web that shows the process that
  the food went through to get to their lunches

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Lesson 5 What Did Your Lunch Cost Wildlife?
(Part 2)

• Outcomes HC4.1, Indicators c, d
• Examine food process charts that they created in
  previous lesson
• Discuss ways to lessen the effect on wildlife and
  the environment
• As a group, create a representation of how people
  can have less of an effect

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Lesson 6 Connections Within the Environment

• Outcome HC4.2, Indicators a, b, c
• Walk around the playground or community and write
  about animals they see
• Discuss relationships between animals and
  environment
• Create a food web as a class

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Lesson 7 Weird Friends

• Outcome HC4.2, Indicator f
• Read book Weird Friends
• Students follow along and fill in benefits of
  each relationship
• Discussion of mutualism

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Lesson 8 Creating Habitats (Part 1)

• Outcome HC4.2, Indicators e, f, k
• Create a habitat using a variety of materials
• Write about their habitat using a guiding sheet
• Write about relationships that are present in the
  habitat

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Lesson 9 Creating Habitats (Part 2)

• Outcomes HC4.2, Indicators f, l
• Complete habitat and written components
• Examine a classmates habitat
• Answer questions about their classmates habitat

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Lesson 10 Special Adaptations

• Outcome HC4.3, Indicators a, b, c
• Go outside to examine different types of
  organisms
• Write and draw about components of habitat
• Identify special adaptations of an organism

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Lesson 11 Identifying Adaptations

• Outcome HC4.3, Indicators d, g
• View a variety of organisms
• Attempt to identify their physical adaptations
• Play an interactive game that focuses on animal
  adaptations

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Lesson 12 Creating Animals

• Outcome HC4.1 Indicators f
• Students given a description of a habitat
• Create a new type of animal that could survive in
  the habitat
• Must identify the adaptations that allow them to
  survive

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Lesson 13 Exam

• Outcomes HC4.1, HC4.2, HC4.3
• Exam that encompasses the entire unit
• Allows students to apply what the know
• Short answer questions
• Similar questions to what students have answered
  in the unit

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Thank-you! ?

• Questions or comments?
• We made it! Enjoy your summer!!?