Life Science
The chapters in this unit are:
1 Plant Structure and Function
2 Animal Structure and Function
3 Energy in Ecosystem
4 Surviving in the Environment
Chapter one lessons are:
1. How are Plants grouped?
2. What are the parts of a flower?
3. How do flowers make seeds and fruit?
4. What is the life cycle of a flowering plant?
Chapter 1 Vocabulary
Classify, conifer, dicot seed, dormant, embryo, fertilization, monocot seed, ovary, ovule, pistil, pollen, pollination, reproduce, sepal, spore, and stamen
The following sites on the web will offer the following:
Dictionary: http://www.m-w.com/
This site will also share the top ten web sites for the word and a thesaurus
Science web site: http://www.sfscience.com/english/grade_4/index.htm
This site is from Scott Foresman and shares addition learning about the chapter.
Chapter 2 lessons are:
1. How are animals alike and different?
2. How do animals with backbones vary?
3. What characteristics do animals get from their parents?
Chapter 2 Vocabulary
Amphibian, backbone, behavior, exoskeleton, gills, instinct, mammal, molt, reflex, reptile, response, stimulus
The following sites on the web will offer the following:
Dictionary: http://www.m-w.com/
This site will also share the top ten web sites for the word and a thesaurus
Science web site: http://www.sfscience.com/english/grade_4/index.htm
This site is from Scott Foresman and shares addition learning about the chapter.
Chapter 3 lessons are:
1. What is an ecosystem?
2. How do plants get energy?
3. How do other living things get energy?
4. What are food chains and food webs?
Chapter 3 Vocabulary
Carbon dioxide, carnivore, chlorophyll, consumer, decomposer, ecosystem, food chain, food web, habitat, herbivore, omnivore, photosynthesis, predator, prey, producer, scavenger
The following sites on the web will offer the following:
Dictionary: http://www.m-w.com/
This site will also share the top ten web sites for the word and a thesaurus
Science web site: http://www.sfscience.com/english/grade_4/index.htm
This site is from Scott Foresman and shares addition learning about the chapter.
Chapter 4 lessons
1. What structures help plants and animals survive?
2. What behaviors help animals survive?
3. How do changes in the environment affect survival?
4. Do all plants and animals?
Chapter 4 Vocabulary
Adaptation, camouflage, endangered, extinct, fossil, hibernation, host, migration, parasite, pollution, recycle, symbiosis
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