For School Groups
- School Program : Ecosystems
- Costs 13.00 per student
- Takes about 1.50 hours
- Designed for 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade and 8th grade
- Theme: Force and Motion, Natural History, Sustainable Design, Natural Science
Description
All creatures live in a web of resources that support or suppress their growth. Create a dynamic model of an insect’s or bird’s world. Suspend a magnetized creature on a pendulum. Add food and shelter (with magnets) that attract the creature and predators and hazards that repel it. The creature navigates a complex and fascinating path.
Meets Connecticut Science Standards
- 3.2: Organisms can survive and reproduce only in environments that meet their basic needs.
- 4.2: All organisms depend on the living and non-living features of the environment for survival.
- 4.4: Electrical and magnetic energy can be transferred and transformed.
Meets Next Generation Science Standards
- 2-LS2 : Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics. LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems. Plants depend on water and light to grow. (2-LS2-1). Plants depend on animals for pollination or to move their seeds around. (2-LS2-2)
- K-ESS3: Earth and Human Activity KESS3-1: Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.. KESS3-2: Ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather. ETS1.A : Asking questions, making observations, gathering information are helpful in thinking about problems.
For Families
- Essential Experiment: Attracting Opposites
- Makes a great birthday party for !
- Available as a Walk-in project
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