Teachers want to keep these ideas in mind throughout the unit to help guide instruction and to emphasize with learners.
Basic Needs
All living things have basic needs.
Habitats
A habitat is the area an organism uses to meet all of its needs.
Adaptations
All organisms adapt to their habitat. They have specific structures and behaviors that enable them to get what they need.
Inquiry Skills
Inquiry skills are those skills students use to make sense of their science investigations. They tell what the students will actually be doing in science. The Inquiry Skills for Habitats are:
Classify
CollectData
Communicate
Compare
Infer
Interpret Data
Design and Conduct Investigations
Observe
Predict
Quantify
Question
Work Cooperatively
