Match a place to a need

Supplied materials

• For younger learners, an adult may read each direction aloud; pointing, drawing and spoken explanations count as responses.
• Paper, drawing space or a browser document.
• Reference card A: water habitat for the supplied fish. Reference card B: grassy place for the supplied grass-eater.
• Assessment case 1: Which scientific label fits the specifically described step or feature? Supplied case: Fish needs water to swim.
• Assessment case 2: Which scientific label fits the specifically described step or feature? Supplied case: Rabbit needs grass to eat.
• Assessment case 3: Which scientific label fits the specifically described step or feature? Supplied case: Bird needs the listed nesting cover.
• Assessment case 4: Which scientific label fits the specifically described step or feature? Supplied case: Seedling needs the listed sunny growing patch.
• Assessment case 5: Which scientific label fits the specifically described step or feature? Supplied case: Second fish needs open pond water.
• Assessment case 6: Which scientific label fits the specifically described step or feature? Supplied case: Second grass-eater needs meadow grass.

Learn the idea

A habitat is a place with resources and conditions. A pond and meadow offer different resources. The pretend cards describe needs so you can match without guessing.

Pond means water habitat for the supplied fish. Meadow means grassy place for the supplied grass-eater. Tree hole means covered nesting place for the supplied bird. Sunny garden means light and growing space for the supplied plant.

For pond, look for the clue “water habitat for the supplied fish.” For meadow, look for “grassy place for the supplied grass-eater.” More than one process can happen in a real situation. Answer about the one described in this question.

1. Read or listen to the four science words and what each means. Say how the first two differ.
2. Choose two of the short cases. Point to the clue that helps you choose a science word for each one. You may draw or say your answer.
3. Answer each practice question. Say which clue helped you, then check the explanation.
4. Use the extra task to make two examples that show different science words. Draw or say what makes each one fit.

Check your reasoning

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Take it further

Create one new case showing pond and one showing meadow. Expected: the first explicitly shows “water habitat for the supplied fish”; the second explicitly shows “grassy place for the supplied grass-eater.” Explain the distinction by drawing, speaking or writing. A label without a matching feature is incomplete.

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