In Unit 2, students will be reading Informational Texts, Realistic Fiction, and Persuasive texts. Each week students will address one essential Essential Focus Question related to the Unit Theme: Interactions. At the end of this unit, the students will be able to answer the Theme Question: How do plants and animals live together?
Focus Questions:
Week 1: How do patterns in nature help plants and animals?
Week 2: How do living things in a habitat support one another?
Week 3: How can a chain of events affect plants and animals?
Week 4: How does reintroduction of a species affect plants and animals in a habitat?
Week 5: Why is it important for plants and animals to depend on each other?
Theme Vocabulary:
Week 1: associate, prefer, investigate, avoid, nature, patterns, repeat, sequence, symmetry
Week 2: connect, favor, research, dodge, predators, protection, immune, species, emerges
Week 3: prefer, features, investigate, avoid, depended, well-being, population, available, balance
Week 4: prefer, investigate, features, associate, habitat, solitary, multiplied
Week 5: prefer, investigate, features, avoid, associate, food chain, interdependence, camouflage, adaptations, biodiversity
At the end of the unit, students will get the chance to apply what they've learned about interactions in the Week 6 Project: Make Note of It!