Living Wild: Plant and Animal Adaptations

  • Category: Adaptations
  • Program Type: School
  • Duration: 75 min.
  • Environment: Outdoors
  • Location: SLNSC, On Location
  • Ages: Grade 3
  • Availability: Fall, Spring, Summer

Students learn how animals survive in the wild with a variety of learn-by-doing activities. Students role-play and investigate plant and animal adaptations in outdoor natural communities.

Next Generation Science Standards Connections
  • 3-LS4-3 Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity – Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
  • LS4.C: Adaptation – For any particular environment, some kinds of organisms survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. (3-LS4-3)
  • LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans – Populations live in a variety of habitats, and change in those habitats affects the organisms living there. (3-LS4-4)
Squam Lakes Natural Science Center
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