2023 - 2024 Muddy Sneakers Expedition Guide
The 2023 - 2024 Muddy Sneakers Expedition Guide offers and overview of each expedition available this school year. For each topic, you'll find information about what to expect including sample activities, NC Essential Science Standard correlation, and vocabulary terms.
The 2023 - 2024 Muddy Sneakers Expedition Guide offers and overview of each expedition available this school year. For each topic, you'll find information about what to expect including sample activities, NC Essential Science Standard correlation, and vocabulary terms.
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SELECTION AND ADAPTATION GAME<br />
5.L.3.2<br />
Representing a population of a chosen species, students will play a game that<br />
illustrates how natural selection can affect the inheritance of traits, and how<br />
adaptations can be crucial to an organism's survival.<br />
CAMOUFLAGE<br />
5.L.3.2<br />
This fun activity connects inherited and acquired traits to the relationships of predators<br />
and prey.<br />
BUILD A BIRD<br />
5.L.3.2<br />
Students will create a bird choosing various adaptations for beak, feathers, feet, etc.<br />
that affect what and how it eats and where it lives.<br />
INHERITANCE & ADAPTATION<br />
NC ESSENTIAL STANDARD AND<br />
CLARIFYING OBJECTIVES<br />
5.L.3<br />
5.L.3.1<br />
5.L.3.2<br />
Understand why organisms differ from or are similar to<br />
their parents based on the characteristics of the<br />
organism.<br />
Explain why organisms differ from or are similar to their<br />
parents based on the characteristics of the organism.<br />
Give examples of likenesses that are inherited and some<br />
that are not.<br />
INHERITANCE & ADAPTATION<br />
15<br />
*Activities that are most likely to take place during the expedition.
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