Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.A.1.3.4

Continuum of Activities

The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.

This continuum of activities offers:

Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
Questions/activities that grow in complexity
Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance

Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content

S4.A.1.3.4 S4.A.1.3.4

Explain what happens to a living organism when its food supply, access to water, shelter, or space is changed (e.g., it might die, migrate, change behavior, eat something else).

Activities

Define organism.
Define habitat.
Name the four things an organism depends on its habitat for.
List two ways that people can change a habitat.
List two ways that nature can change a habitat.

Predict two things that you think might happen to the animals living in a forest if people destroyed it to build a shopping mall?
Fish need clean water to live. What do you think would happen to the fish if people polluted their habitat? What could the fish do to survive?

Frogs usually live in wet habitats. What would a frog need to do in order to survive if the pond where it lived dried up?
Bears hibernate during the winter. What conclusion can you draw about why bears hibernate during the winter instead of the summer? Explain your thinking.

Answer Key/Rubric

An organism is any living thing
Habitat is the place where organisms live
Organisms depend on their habitat for food, water, shelter, and space.
Answers include, but are not limited to: cutting down trees, pollution, building houses or roads
Answers include, but are not limited to: change in weather (seasons), fires, drought, floods
Student realistically predicts two or more things that will happen to the animals. The response addresses sources of food, water, shelter, and space.
Student can make an accurate prediction and can give two or more solutions in order for the fish to survive.
Answers will vary. Use this rubric to evaluate student responses.

Needs Improvement or Reinforcement	Basic Understanding	Mastery
Student cannot suggest realistic solutions for the frogs.	Student can give one solution in order for the frogs to survive.	Student can give two or more solutions in order for the frogs to survive.

Answers will vary. Use this rubric to evaluate student responses.

Needs Improvement or Reinforcement	Basic Understanding	Mastery
Student cannot draw an accurate conclusion.	Student can draw an accurate conclusion.	Student can draw an accurate conclusion and clearly explain their reasoning.