Web Resources for 4th Grade Science Standard 4-2 Organisms and Their Environments: The student will

demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and patterns of behavior that allow organisms to survive in their own distinct environments. (Life Science) 4-2.1 Classify organisms into major groups (including plants or animals, flowering or nonflowering plants, and vertebrates [fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals] or invertebrates) according to their physical characteristics. Type Teacher Web Resource 18 interactive options about plants 6 interactive options about animal classifications Student Students can research about different classifications The different parts of plants Video teachertube video 2.22 The animals talk about their characteristics Song Game animal classification song Help solve plant mystery by identifying different parts of plant 6 different games about classifying organisms

4-2.2 Explain how the characteristics of distinct environments (including swamps, rivers and streams, tropical rain forests, deserts, and the polar regions) influence the variety of organisms in each. Type Web Resource Teacher
Print out pages of different animals that live in water Print out activities for habitats and biomes

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Students can learn about swamps and its organisms Students learn about rivers and streams and its organisms

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Video showing different animals in different habitats Magic School Bus Explores the World of Animals

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Down in the Jungle Song Play games of all habitats on brain pop jr

4-2.3 Explain how humans and other animals use their senses and sensory organs to detect signals from the environment and how their behaviors are influenced by these signals. Type Teacher Student Video Web Resource
Teachers can learn about tons of animals and their senses Students can learn about tons of animals and their senses You Tube Video about human senses You tube video about animal senses

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Human senses song Book about animal sense

4-2.4 Distinguish between the characteristics of an organism that are inherited and those that are acquired over time. Type Teacher Web Resource
Mini lesson on inherited and acquired characteristics Power Point about characteristics

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10 Questions assessment adaptations and survival http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP27i05-vTg

4-2.5 Explain how an organisms patterns of behavior are related to its environment (including the kinds and the number of other organisms present, the availability of food and other resources, and the physical characteristics of the environment).

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Web Resource Animal adaptations Lessons on organisms, their adaptations and their environments Learn about animal adaptations Learn about habitats How animal camouflage works teacher tube adaptation song Adaptation game

4-2.6 Explain how organisms cause changes in their environment. Type Teacher Student Web Resource 14 interactive lessons Learn about chain reactions Plants and animals in the local environment Learn about animal migration You Tube Animal Adaptation Video You Tube Adaptations, Characteristics and Habitats Adaptation Game Flash cards of vocabulary

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