Beavers!

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Science

Grade(s)

2, 3

Overview

Learn how beavers are nature’s amazing engineers. This self-paced lesson is full of beautiful beaver videos, awesome fact-filled infographics, and all you can soak in about beavers, beaver dams, and beaver lodges.

Science (2015) Grade(s): 2

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Obtain information from literature and other media to illustrate that there are many different kinds of living things and that they exist in different places on land and in water (e.g., woodland, tundra, desert, rainforest, ocean, river).

Vocabulary

Literature
Media
Diversity
Habitats
Woodland
Tundra
Desert
Rainforest
Ocean
River

Knowledge

Students know:

Plants and animals are diverse within different habitats.

Skills

Students are able to:

Obtain information from literature and other media.
Illustrate the different kinds of living things and the different habitats in which they can be found.

Understanding

Students understand that:

There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land and in water.

Scientific and Engineering Practices

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns

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.

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

CR Resource Type

Lesson/Unit Plan

Resource Provider

PBS

License Type

Custom

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Approved Date

2021-03-29

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