Grade+4+Life+Science

Topic: Earth's Living History Content: Changes in an organisms environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful.

Lesson Plans: Migration Lesson @http://migration.pwnet.org/pdf/Migration_Headache.pdf ORC # 3538 @http://www.ohiorc.org/record/3538.aspx ORC# 517 @http://www.ohiorc.org/record/517.aspx ORC# 4877 @http://www.ohiorc.org/record/4877.aspx Changes in Ohio's Environment @https://ims.ode.state.oh.us/ODE/IMS/Lessons/Web_Content/CSS_LP_S03_BC_L04_I09_01.pdf Simulations (project wet) No water off a ducks back @http://www.peelregion.ca/pw/waterstory/pdf/activities/duck.pdf Ethi- Thinking @http://edcollection.wetpaint.com/page/Ethi-thinking To close for comfort pg. 300 in project wild manual

Websites: @http://dnrstate.oh.us/tabid/6005/default.aspx @http://sciencenetlinks.com/lessons/pond-1-pond-life/

Literature: Oil Spill by: Melvin Berger Habitats: Making Homes for Animals and Plants by: Pamela M. Hickman Letting Swift River Go by: Jane Yolen River Friendly River Wild by: Jane Kurtz

Related Vocabulary: Habitat Organism

Topic: Earth's living history Content: Fossils can be compared to one another and to present day organisms according to the similarities and differences

Lesson Plans: ORC# 5255 @http://www.ohiorc.org/record/5255.aspx ORC# 21 @http://www.ohiorc.org/record/21.aspx

Simulations: Make your own fossils @http://www.ehow.com/how_6388806_make-own-fossil-experiment.html

Websites: @http://www.trilobites.info/ @http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/subcategory_topic.php?c=NH&s=GEOL&t=FOSS