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Discover what animals live in a pond or wetland. Students will have the opportunity to search for animals in a pond using nets.
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Explain that all organisms need food to survive. Aquatic plants produce their own food using sunlight and aquatic animals eat plants or other animals. Food is needed for energy and for growth.
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Identify pond organisms by using a simple picture key.
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Discover what common aquatic organisms eat (e.g. tadpoles feed on algae and frogs feed on insects).
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Classify pond and wetland animals, including snakes, turtles, birds and mammals, according to their characteristics such as body coverings and body structure.
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Compare life cycles of pond organisms such as egg-tadpole-adult frog and egg-nymph-adult dragonfly. |
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Explain how different pond and wetland organisms survive winter. |
