Animal Adaptations Lesson 3

1. Animal Adaptations
Lesson 3: Animal Groups: How Animals Live Together
In this lesson, students review the animal
adaptations that we learned in the two previous
lessons (camouflage, defense mechanism) and
then we discuss if animals use teamwork. Students
review the research process (presearch, research)
and then we read parts of the book Animal Groups:
How Animals Live Together by Etta Kaner to
answer our research question. I pair the reading of
this story with photographs of the animal group
being discussed in the book so the students can
better see and understand how each animal group
works together. I read selected sections of the book
up to page 16.

2. Welcome to the library

3. Yellow-rumped
Cacique birds
and nests
Sani Island,
Rio Napo,
upper Amazon
basin, Ecuador.
1 January, 2015
https://www.sciencesource.com/archive/Yellow-rumped-Cacique-Nests-SS2765067.html#/SearchResult&ITEMID=SS2765067

4. What adaptations do animals
have to protect themselves?

5. camouflage
mechanism
Defense

6. Teamwork

7. Do animals use teamwork?

8. What do you do when you
want to know the answer to
a question?

9. Research

10. Research is what you do
when you want to know the
answer to a…………..

11. question

12. Presearch
Think of a
research question.
Do animals use teamwork?

13. Think about what you already
know about your topic.
Do animals use teamwork?

14. What resources can you use to
find out the answer to our
research question?

15. magazines
Digital
resources
books
places
DVDs/TV

16. Etta Kaner Pat Stephens
2004

17. Teamwork
1

18. https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2013/09/19/how-do-ants-get-their-magnetic-compasses/
2

19. https://asknature.org/strategy/cooperative-herding-catches-more-food/#.Wus8WogvyUk 3

20. 4

21. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/adaptations/Pack_hunter 5

22. 6

23. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/newsroom/features/?cid=nrcseprd1367455
7

24. https://www.arkive.org/cattle-egret/bubulcus-ibis/image-G51405.html
8

25. http://abc7chicago.com/archive/8848121/
9

26. 10

27. 11

28. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-male-elephants-bond-64316480/
12

29. https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/zebra/#zebra-herd.jpg 13

30. Find books
Find your seat
and then…..
Read
Use your shelf marker to: