Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Wild City Search: An Urban Ecosystem Game

Subject Area

Science

Grade(s)

3

Overview

Players are challenged to investigate a city neighborhood and explore relationships among living and non-living things in this interactive game from PLUM LANDING. Plum provides short prompts that encourage students to find animals and plants, consider how they meet their needs in a city environment, and discover connections among living and non-living things.

    Science (2015) Grade(s): 3

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    Obtain and combine information to describe that organisms are classified as living things, rather than nonliving things, based on their ability to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce, and maintain stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment.

    Unpacked Content

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    Vocabulary

    • Organisms
    • Living things
    • Nonliving things
    • Growth
    • Resources
    • Reproduce
    • Stable conditions
    • Internal conditions
    • External environment

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Resources obtained and used by living things.
    • Organisms can be classified as living things based on the following: their ability to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce, and maintain stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment.
    • The life cycles of different organisms can look different, but all follow a pattern.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Obtain information from a variety of resources to describe organisms that are classified as living things, rather than nonliving things.
    • Combine information to describe that organisms are classified as living things, rather than nonliving things.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Patterns can be used when determining that organisms are living things.

    Scientific and Engineering Practices

    Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

    Crosscutting Concepts

    Patterns
    Link to Resource

    CR Resource Type

    Interactive/Game

    Resource Provider

    PBS
    Accessibility
    License

    License Type

    CUSTOM
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