Children discover how plants and animals (including humans) can change their environments to meet their needs, and learn to identify evidence of these changes.
Changing Environments
Daily schedule and activities
Morning Circle: Introduce the concept of environmental changes
Watch video about how plants change their environment
Sort and count pictures of plant environmental changes
Draw a picture showing how a plant changes its environment
Observe students' understanding of how plants can change their environment and their ability to identify examples.
Students rotate through stations featuring different plants that change their environment, completing activities at each station.
Duration
45 minutes
Materials
Learning Areas
Students create models of animals changing their environment (e.g., birds building nests, beavers building dams, worms making tunnels).
Duration
40 minutes
Materials
Learning Areas
Students act out different ways that plants and animals change their environment while classmates guess what they're portraying.
Duration
30 minutes
Materials
Learning Areas
Students create before and after drawings showing how a plant or animal changed its environment.
Duration
35 minutes
Materials
Learning Areas
Send home a family activity sheet that encourages parents/caregivers to look for evidence of plants and animals changing their environment in their neighborhood or local park.
