Plant and Animal Survival Lessons and Activities | Paper and Digital

Students will learn how plants and animals survive and ways humans can protect them. They will learn about stimuli and how plants or animals respond. Best of all, you don't have to plan anything because we did it for you!

This engaging resource includes:

• ways that plants and animals are protected and respected.
• traditional ways First Nations, Métis and Inuit people have cared for plants and animals: seed keeping, controlled burning, fish ladders and hunting and gathering.
• definition and examples of stimuli for plants and animals such as temperature, light, water, food and chemicals.
• responding to stimuli.
• plant responses such as closing leaves, opening leaves, growing toward water and moving toward light.
• animal responses such as migration, hibernation, predator-prey or camouflage.
• interactions between plants and animals and how they depend on each other for survival.
• three complete teacher lesson plans including possible modifications for differentiation.
• student pages and templates.
• answer keys and suggested answers.
• opportunities to extend learning.
• ideas for how to use this resource in the classroom, online, or a mix.
• a digital version of all the student pages that use Google Slides. You must download the PDF file and use the access link in the file to get your digital copy. 
• an alignment guide for Alberta Outcomes.

These lessons align with:

• Alberta Science Curriculum © 2022 Grade 3 (new outcomes)
  

These lessons support:

• any lesson about interactions between plants and animals.
• any lesson about how plants and animals survive.
• any lesson about traditional ways nature is protected.

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Ninja Note: To access the digital version, download the PDF and use the link in that file.