Field Trips
- Grade Level:
- Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
- Subject:
- Science
- State Standards:
- AZ Science Standards:
3.L1U1.5
3.L2U1.8
4.L4U1.11
4.E1U1.8
5.L3U1.9
5.L4U3.11
NGSS:
3-LS1-1
3-ESS2-1
4-LS1-1
5-LS2-1
5-ESS2-1
AzSS & NGSS Crosscutting Concepts
Systems & System Models
Patterns
Essential Question:
How do we learn about our environment, where we live, and the world around us? How are all living things (including us) interconnected? How do factors (such as weather, elevation, life cycles, and traditions) affect this interconnectivity?
Field Trip Overview:
Guided by focused observations, senses, and meaning-making, students engage with and explore different environments on the rim of the Grand Canyon. Students look for and self-guide to find and observe examples of adaptations/structures and interactions of plants and animals life cycles.
On this field trip, students will be able to:
- Access their prior knowledge to connect their homes to the canyon environments to interconnectedness of all living things over time.
- Discuss how seasons, weather, environments affect how we interact with where we live.
- Find, observe, and discuss ways in which living things and parts of nature interact and depend on one another in an environment
- Reflect and discuss how we know what we know: meaning-making.
- Provide examples of structures that plants use for survival and examples of both behavioral and physical adaptations.
- Model and explain how organisms interact in different ways and that these interactions are necessary for survival
Ties to Arizona Education Standards and NGSS Standards
Arizona State Science Standards:
3rd Grade Life Sciences: Students understand that plants and animals (including humans) have specialized internal and external structures and can respond to stimuli to increase survival. (Supports Standards 3.L1U1.5 and 3.L2U1.8)
4th Grade Life Sciences: Students develop an understanding of the diversity of past and present organisms, factors impacting organism diversity, and evidence of change of organisms over time. (Supports Standard 4.L4U1.11)
4th Grade Earth and Space Sciences: Students understand how weather, climate, and human interactions can impact the environment. (Supports Standard 4.E1U1.8)
5th Grade Life Sciences: Students develop an understanding of patterns, how information is passed from generation to generation and how environmental features impact the survival of an organism. (Supports Standards 5.L3U1.9 and 5.L4U3.11)
Next Generation Science Standards
- 3-LS1-1: Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction and death.
- 3-ESS2-1: Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
- 4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
- 5-LS2-1: Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment
- 5-ESS2-1: Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.
AzSS & NGSS Grade Band 3-5 Crosscutting Concepts
- Systems and System Models: A system can be described in terms of its components and their interactions.
- Patterns: Patterns of change can be used to make predictions.
Last updated: November 20, 2023