• In order to survive in their environment, plants and animals must be adapted to their environment.

• Individuals within a species must compete with each other for food, water, and shelter

• How do organisms get energy?
  Individuals organisms and species change over time

• Differences within a species may give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing

• Temperature and precipitation and ways animals meet their needs in each of the following habitats:
  · Deserts
  · Wetlands
  · Temperate forests
  · Rainforests
  · Polar regions
  · Grasslands
  · Oceans

Unifying concepts and processes in science
• Systems, order, and organization
• Change, constancy, and measurement
• Form and function

Science and technology
· Wise use of natural resources
· Measuring changes over time

Science in personal and social perspective
Animals can become endangered or extinct because of human activities such as loss of habitat.

People can often learn about things around them by just observing those things carefully, but sometimes they can learn more by doing something to the things and noting what happens.

History and nature of science
• Changes in environments
• A lot can be learned about plants and animals by observing them closely, but care must be taken to know the needs of living things and how to provide for them in the classroom.
• Clear communication is an essential part of doing science. It enables scientists to inform others about their work, expose their ideas to criticism by other scientists, and stay informed
about scientific discoveries around the world.
• Doing science involves many different kinds of work and engages men and women of all ages and backgrounds.

Reading Standard 1
read, write, listen, and speak for information
and understanding
 

Writing:
· read and write for information
· writing to explain
· writing realistic fiction

Math
charts and graphs of populations,
temperatures

Science as inquiry

• Results of similar scientific investigations
  seldom turn out exactly the same.

• Sometimes this is because of unexpected differences in the things being investigated, sometimes because of unrealized differences in the methods used or in the circumstances in which the investigation is carried out, and sometimes just because of uncertainties in observations. It is not always easy to tell which.
   

• Process skills
  · data collection
  · observations
  · predictions
  · investigation
  mathematical reasoning

habitat, compare, organism, environment, adaptation, producer, consumer, decomposers, food chain, predator, prey, population, community, advantage, carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, camouflage, defense mechanism, depend, dependent, impact, influence, characteristics, survival, thrive, utilize, trait

word derivatives---environment/ environmental;
decompose/ decomposer; consume/ consumer;
produce/ producer