Organisms Targeted Grade Level -- 1 Developed by National Science Resource Center Distributed by Carolina Biological Supply Company

 

Organisms Module Overview

This unit provides hands-on experiences that help students develop an understanding of and sensitivity to living things. Students create and maintain a woodland habitat containing pine seedlings, moss, pill bugs, and Bess beetles or millipedes. They also set up and observe a freshwater habitat into which they introduce Elodea and Cabomba plants, pond snails, and guppies. By placing both plants and animals within each habitat, students have the opportunity to observe how these organisms coexist. Through studying the needs and characteristics of a variety of organisms, the students are able to draw conclusions about how living creatures are similar and different. In a final lesson, students apply what they have learned about organisms to humans, exploring how human beings are similar to and different from other living creatures.

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These module web pages were initially created by Angie Whittington, Chestnut Grove, Decatur City Schools and Patsy Bryant, Cotaco Elementary, Morgan County Schools. Please address comments or questions to hasp@dcs.edu.

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