With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorize information, and provide a list of sources.
Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources...
Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information
about a topic, using a clear
central idea and genre
characteristics and craft;
Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information
about a topic, using a clear central
idea and genre characteristics and craft;
Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information
about a topic, using a clear central
idea and genre characteristics and craft;
Compose informational texts, including multi-paragraph essays that convey information about a topic, using a clear controlling idea or thesis statement and genre characteristics and craft;
Explore and describe examples of traits that are
inherited from parents to offspring such as eye color and shapes of leaves and
behaviors that are learned such as reading a book and a wolf pack teaching
their pups to hunt effectively; and
Compare the structures and functions of different
species that help them live and survive in a specific environment such as
hooves on prairie animals or webbed feet in aquatic animals; and
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Animals That Adapt - Research Project & Report
Updated: 04 Jan 2024
Strengthen your students' understanding of conducting research with an Animal Adaptations research project.
Strengthen your students' understanding of conducting research with an Animal Adaptations research project.
Wrap Up Your Animal Adaptations Unit With a Research Project!
Are you looking for a fun (and challenging) way to have your students demonstrate their learning near the end of your unit on cool animal adaptations? If so, you’ve found the perfect tool for doing that… the research project and presentation! This student inquiry task puts your students in the drivers to do all of the heavy lifting and research it takes to teach a topic to a classmate through the presentation of their learning via informational report. This inquiry task takes students step by step through the research project, setting them up for an end-of-unit presentation.
Setting Up Your Animal Adaptations Projects
This resource includes:
a detailed description of the task
a graphic organiser for recording information
a planning sheet for the information report.
Students will participate in the following scenario to kick off their research and then use a variety of tools to research and record their learning about the adaptations held by a chosen animal.
Imagine you are a reporter for National Geographic magazine. You have been asked to write a detailed information report to feature in a special edition of the magazine dedicated to animals and their environments.
A series of graphic organisers and research tasks will guide the students through the stages needed to produce a complete information report.
Download, Print, and Research Animals with Cool Adaptations!
Get your students started on showing what they know about animals with cool adaptations. Click the download button to download the quick-print PDF resource file.
Even More Animal Adaptations Activities
Before you go, make sure you grab these fantastic animal adaptation resources.
Display these informative posters in your 2nd grade classroom to remind students of the five ways animals and plants adapt to seasonal changes in their environment.
With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorize information, and provide a list of sources.
Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources...
Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information
about a topic, using a clear
central idea and genre
characteristics and craft;
Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information
about a topic, using a clear central
idea and genre characteristics and craft;
Compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information
about a topic, using a clear central
idea and genre characteristics and craft;
Compose informational texts, including multi-paragraph essays that convey information about a topic, using a clear controlling idea or thesis statement and genre characteristics and craft;
Explore and describe examples of traits that are
inherited from parents to offspring such as eye color and shapes of leaves and
behaviors that are learned such as reading a book and a wolf pack teaching
their pups to hunt effectively; and
Compare the structures and functions of different
species that help them live and survive in a specific environment such as
hooves on prairie animals or webbed feet in aquatic animals; and
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