Prairie-chicken pageant
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/16/g35/prairie35.html
A lesson plan for Grade 5 Science
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- Appropriate grades
- 5
- Subjects
- science (biology and life science, environmental science)
- Provider
- National Geographic
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In this lesson, from Xpeditions, students will learn about the challenges of saving the prairie-chicken in its American habitat. They will study the habits of prairie-chickens and learn about what is being done to save them and to conserve the areas in which they live.
Students will:
- learn about threats to the prairie-chicken and its habitat
- propose creative solutions to prairie conservation issues
- describe conservation challenges of the prairie-chicken
- discuss current efforts to protect prairie-chickens
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 5
- Goal 1: The learner will conduct investigations to build an understanding of the interdependence of plants and animals.
- Objective 1.01: Describe and compare several common ecosystems (communities of organisms and their interaction with the environment).
- Objective 1.02: Identify and analyze the functions of organisms within the population of the ecosystem:
- Producers.
- Consumers.
- Decomposers.
- Objective 1.05: Determine the interaction of organisms within an ecosystem.
- Objective 1.06: Explain and evaluate some ways that humans affect ecosystems.
- Habitat reduction due to development.
- Pollutants.
- Increased nutrients.
