Third grade- Life ScienceThird grade- Life Science

By: Lee Ann WhitneyBy: Lee Ann Whitney

Table of ContentsTable of Contents

• Let’s InvestigateLet’s Investigate• What do living things need to surviveWhat do living things need to survive

• ActivitiesActivities

• EcosystemsEcosystems• HabitatsHabitats• Animal needsAnimal needs• Specific habitats for animalsSpecific habitats for animals• Animal reportAnimal report• Video clipVideo clip• Georgia Performance StandardsGeorgia Performance Standards

Let’s investigateLet’s investigate

What is an ecosystem?What is an ecosystem? What is a habitat?What is a habitat? What do animals need to live?What do animals need to live? Where do they get the things they need to Where do they get the things they need to

live?live? How can you use observation to find out how How can you use observation to find out how

an animal lives?an animal lives?

Ecosystems

What do living things What do living things need to survive?need to survive?

Choose one living Choose one living thing you observed thing you observed and write down what and write down what in that environment in that environment or habitat gives the or habitat gives the living thing what it living thing what it needs to survive.needs to survive.

ActivityActivity

You may work alone, You may work alone, in a pair or a group up in a pair or a group up to 4 students. We will to 4 students. We will be observing be observing organisms in their organisms in their habitat outside.habitat outside.

When you get outside When you get outside take your string and take your string and place it on the ground place it on the ground in circle.in circle.

ActivityActivity

Make a list of all the Make a list of all the things you observe in things you observe in your circle.your circle.

Write the items in the Write the items in the correct place on the correct place on the chart.chart.

LivingLiving NonlivingNonliving

GraphsGraphs

We will make a We will make a graph together of the graph together of the living and nonliving living and nonliving things you found in things you found in the environment.the environment.

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Let’s Investigate

Ecosystems Ecosystems

An ecosystem is the An ecosystem is the living and nonliving living and nonliving things in an things in an environment that environment that affect each other. affect each other. Ecosystems include Ecosystems include the interactions that the interactions that occur among living occur among living things.things.

EcosystemsEcosystems

frogs

sunlight

pond

cattails

air

waterrocks

soil

ducks

fish

HabitatHabitat

A habitat is the A habitat is the specific place where specific place where an organism lives. A an organism lives. A habitat provides an habitat provides an organism with all its organism with all its needs and includes needs and includes nonliving and living nonliving and living things. There are things. There are many habitats in an many habitats in an ecosystem.ecosystem.

What do animals needWhat do animals need

food

water

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Animals need to live in Animals need to live in their specific habitatstheir specific habitats

Where am I?This is not my habitat.Why do I need to livein India and not Georgia?.

Why animals need to live Why animals need to live in specific regionsin specific regions

External features ofanimals that allow

them to live in specificregions

Body CoveringSize and relative

scale of bodyparts

Movement Food gathering

Why are there no Why are there no penguins in Georgia?penguins in Georgia?

Choose an animal that Choose an animal that lives in a place other than lives in a place other than Georgia. Do a report about Georgia. Do a report about that organism, its needs, its that organism, its needs, its habitat, and why, based on habitat, and why, based on its needs and features, it its needs and features, it lives somewhere other than lives somewhere other than Georgia. For example, Georgia. For example, penguins do not live in penguins do not live in Georgia except in zoos or Georgia except in zoos or animal parks. You would animal parks. You would find out why an animal in find out why an animal in not native to Georgia, what not native to Georgia, what it needs to live, and its it needs to live, and its habitat.habitat.

Animal ReportAnimal Report

Click on reportfor printable version

Animals and HabitatsAnimals and Habitats

Georgia Performance StaGeorgia Performance Standardsndards

S3L1. Students will investigate the habitats of S3L1. Students will investigate the habitats of different organisms and the dependence of different organisms and the dependence of organisms on their habitat.organisms on their habitat.

S3CS1. Students will be aware of the S3CS1. Students will be aware of the importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, and skepticism in science and will exhibit these and skepticism in science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to understand how the traits in their own efforts to understand how the world works.world works.

Georgia Performance Georgia Performance StandardsStandards

S3CS4. Students will use ideas of system, S3CS4. Students will use ideas of system, model, change, and scale in exploring scientific model, change, and scale in exploring scientific and technological matters.and technological matters.

S3CS5. Students will communicate scientific S3CS5. Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.ideas and activities clearly.

S3CS8. Students will understand important S3CS8. Students will understand important features of the process of scientific inquiry. features of the process of scientific inquiry.