Chicken Coop

Sustainability connections to the CAS:

• To live and grow, animals obtain food they need from plants or other animals, and plants need water and light. **** Note, kindergarten students cannot handle chickens **

Lessons:

Comparing similarities and differences

Life Cycles from butterflies to chickens

Down on the Farm

Sustainability connections to the CAS:

• All organisms have external parts that they use to perform daily functions
• Young organisms are very much, but not exactly, like their parents, and also resemble other organisms of the same kind

Lessons:

Comparing similarities and differences

Life Cycles from butterflies to chickens

Down on the Farm

Lessons:

Comparing similarities and differences

Life Cycles from butterflies to chickens

Down on the Farm

Sustainability connections to the CAS:

• Organisms have unique and diverse life cycles.
• Being part of a group helps animals obtain food, defend themselves and cope with changes.
• Different organisms vary in how they look and function because they have different inherited information; the environment also affects the traits that an organism develops.
• Sometimes differences in characteristics between individuals of the same species provide advantages in survival and reproduction.

Lessons:

Comparing similarities and differences

Life Cycles from butterflies to chickens

Down on the Farm

Sustainability connections to the CAS:

• Earth has changed over time.
• Organisms have both internal and external structures that serve various functions.

Lessons:

Comparing similarities and differences

Life Cycles from butterflies to chickens

Down on the Farm

Sustainability connections to the CAS:

• Matter cycles between air and soil and among plants, animals and microbes as these organisms live and die.

Lessons:

Comparing similarities and differences

Life Cycles from butterflies to chickens

Down on the Farm

Does Technology Help or Harm the Earth?

Sustainability connections to the CAS:

• Organisms and populations of organisms are dependent on their environmental interactions both with other living things and with nonliving factors.

Lessons and Activities:

Energy Flow in ECO Systems

How Do Animals Obtain Energy

Sustainability connections to the CAS:

• All living things are made up of cells, which is the smallest unit that can be said to be alive.
• Organisms reproduce, either sexually or asexually, and transfer their genetic information to their offspring.

Lessons and Activities:

Energy Flow in ECO Systems

How Do Animals Obtain Energy

Lessons and Activities:

Energy Flow in ECO Systems

How Do Animals Obtain Energy

Sustainability connections to the CAS:

• Organisms use matter and energy to live and grow.
• Organisms interact with the living and nonliving components of the environment to obtain matter and energy.
• Matter and energy necessary for life are conserved as they move through ecosystems.
• Organisms interact in groups to benefit the species.