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| Program Time: 1.5 hours |
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| Students will visit several communities at Wolf Creek, including the forest, meadow, pond, and wetland while discovering the many interrelationships between the plants and animals in these communities. |
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Compare human communities to natural communities; explain that both people and animals need air, water, food, living space, shelter, and light to survive.
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Discover which animals live in different habitats by looking for animal signs. |
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Compare the activities of Ohio's common animals such as squirrels, chipmunks, deer, butterflies, bees, and ants during the different seasons by describing changes in their behaviors and body coverings. |
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Investigate the different structures of plants and animals that enable them to live in different environments (e.g. lungs, gills, roots, leaves). |
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Explain that food is a basic need of plants and animals; plants use sunlight to produce their own food, and animals eat plants or other animals for food; food is important, because it is a source of energy; share simple food chains such as grass-meadow, vole-coyote, and nuts-squirrel-hawk. |
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Compare life cycles of different animals that live in Ohio including birth to adulthood, reproduction, and death (e.g. egg-caterpillar-chrysalis-butterfly). |
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Relate animal structures to their specific survival functions (e.g. obtaining food, escaping, or hiding from enemies). |
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Classify animals according to their characteristics (e.g. body coverings and body functions). |
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