Adaptations
Adaptations
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Adaptations

Adaptations

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The Adaptation FIELD Kit is a unique way of educating your students about local animal and plant adaptations. Students will be intrigued every step of the way through the interactive, inquiry-based learning, and hands-on experience. This kit includes surprise puzzles of an animal or plant that will be followed by questions and a "show and tell" of animal or plant artifacts (biofacts). To end your day, indoor and outdoor activities will be provided to continue your students learning and inspire a connection to nature.

Adaptations kits are:

  • Adaptations I - Eagle, Skunk, Beaver, Snake 
  • Adaptations II - Bee, Wild Rose, Deer, Bat

Adaptations kit includes:

    • The rental is for your school 
      • as many teachers at your school may use this kit within the rented week(s) time
    • A lesson plan (including topics on living and non-living, needs to survive, habitats, and animal and plant adaptations)
    • Felt animal and plant adaptation puzzles
    • Biofacts (such as skulls, plant material, and tracks) for an eagle, deer, bat, skunk, bee, wild rose, snake, and beaver.
    • Including North America's First People's meanings and the importance of an eagle, beaver, and deer. Additionally, aligns with First Peoples Principals of Learning.
    • Indoor and outdoor optional activities (includes magnifying glasses to take outside and explore)

Check out this five-minute video to learn more about the Adaptations kit: 

Cost to rent:

The rental cost for one week is $175

Plus: 
Refundable deposit $200
Shipping $100+ (depending on where you are located)
Pick up and drop off within Calgary - Free 

*Price is subject to change

Testimonial

We were able to use the Adaptations kit for one afternoon. As soon as the natural animal artifacts were displayed, my K/1 class was fully engaged! Kenzie has spared no expense to collect the most relevant hands-on resources to complement this kit. The thinking and observations the students shared while looking at and touching the artifacts were so much more insightful, focused and enthusiastic - and then they wanted to see what other goodies were in the kit!
Our class loved the field kits! Students were engaged and all of the artifacts sparked a lot of curiosity and questions! Thanks!

How do you order a FIELD Kit?

A. First, you would check out all the Kits online at fieldkits.ca and discover which kit would be best suited for your school. 
B. Then email me at fieldkits@gmail.com or via the website with your name, school, desired kit and preferred amount of weeks and preferred rental dates. 
C. Once these details are confirmed I will send a contract. Please read, sign and return via email.
D. I will then send an invoice via email through the process of "Square."
E. Your kit will be shipped to you and before it arrives you will receive an email with further instructions on how to open the kit and how to prepare for its departure. 

 

Curriculum Competencies:

British Columbia

Kindergarten

    • Basic needs of plants and animals
    • Adaptations of local plants and  animals
    • Living things make changes  to accommodate daily and seasonal cycles
    • Demonstrate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world
    • Observe objects and events in familiar contexts
    • Ask simple questions about familiar objects and events
    • Make exploratory observations using their senses
    • Experience and interpret the local environment
    • Transfer and apply learning to new situations
    • Share observations and ideas orally 
    • Recognize First Peoples stories (including oral and written narratives), songs, and art, as ways to share knowledge

Grade 1:

    • Classification of living and non-living things
    • Names of local plants and animals
    • Structural features of living things in the local environment
    • Behavioural adaptations of animals in the local environment
    • Demonstrate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world
    • Observe objects and events in familiar contexts
    • Ask questions about familiar objects and events
    • Make simple predictions about familiar objects and events
    • Experience and interpret the local environment
    • Communicate observations and ideas using oral or written language, drawing, or role-play
    • Compare observations with those of others
    • Recognize First Peoples stories (including oral and written narratives), songs, and art, as ways to share knowledge

Alberta 

Kindergarten:

  • The child demonstrates curiosity, interest and a willingness to learn about the environment and community
    • Explores and investigates objects and events in the environment
    • Shows awareness of similarities and differences in living things, objects and materials
    • Demonstrates awareness of the properties of objects and events in the environment, by:
      • describing some properties
      • sorting objects according to common properties; e.g., colour, size, shape and texture
    • Arranging objects or events in logical order
    • Matching objects or events as being the same as or going together
    • Distinguishing between similar objects, based on one or more characteristics
    • Becomes aware of the relationship between cause and effect
    • Generates ideas to make personal sense of objects, events and relationships.
  • The child uses materials in the environment and community and becomes aware of how others use materials.
    • Explores and responds to the design and properties of a variety of natural and manufactured materials and objects
    • Describes the function of some common objects found in and around the home and the community
    • Demonstrates some ways of organizing materials; e.g., collecting, arranging, creating and transporting
    • Selects and works with a variety of materials to build structures; e.g. blocks, wood and clay
    • Manipulates or uses materials for a purpose; e.g., water, sand, wood and fabric
    • Uses sand, water, blocks and other manipulatives to explore scientific and aesthetic concepts
    • Uses simple tools in a safe and appropriate manner
    • Recognizes the need to care for materials, and uses materials without wasting them
    • Begins to use some technology appropriately in learning activities and to communicate with others
    • Becomes aware of the importance of protecting the environment.
  • The child demonstrates awareness of self and similarities and differences between self and others.
    • Becomes aware of colours, shapes, patterns and textures in the environment
    • Recognizes changes in weather and some ways people and animals adapt to the seasons; e.g., different clothes and migration
    • Describes a variety of homes; e.g., for people, animals, birds
    • Recognizes familiar animals and their characteristics and surroundings; e.g., farm and zoo
    • Identifies familiar shapes and symbols in the environment and community; e.g., circles, squares, stop signs and traffic lights
    • Identifies familiar sounds in the environment and community; e.g., school, home, weather, animals and machine
  • Recognize First Peoples stories (including oral and written narratives), songs, and art, as ways to share knowledge

      Grade 1:

      Needs of Animals and Plants

      • Describe some common living things, and identify needs of those living things.
        • Observe, describe and compare living things.
        • Contrast living and nonliving things.
        • Identify ways in which living things are valued; e.g., as part of a community of living things; as sources of food, clothing or shelter.
        • Classify some common local plants and animals into groups on the basis of visible characteristics; e.g., adaptations for survival, such as claws, beaks, prickles.
        • Identify examples of plants and animals that are normally under human care (domesticated) and those that are normally independent of human care (wild).
        • Identify the requirements of animals to maintain life; i.e., air, food, water, shelter, space; and recognize that we must provide these for animals in our care.
        • Recognize that some plants and animals must adapt to extreme conditions to meet their basic needs; e.g., arctic and desert plants and animals.
        • Give examples of ways in which animals depend on plants and ways in which plants depend on animals; e.g., particular plants may serve as a source of food and shelter, animals may help spread pollen and seeds.
      • The child uses materials in the environment and community and becomes aware of how others use materials.
        • Explores and responds to the design and properties of a variety of natural and manufactured materials and objects
        • Describes the function of some common objects found in and around the home and the community
        • Demonstrates some ways of organizing materials; e.g., collecting, arranging, creating and transporting
        • Selects and works with a variety of materials to build structures; e.g. blocks, wood and clay
        • Manipulates or uses materials for a purpose; e.g., water, sand, wood and fabric
        • Uses sand, water, blocks and other manipulatives to explore scientific and aesthetic concepts
        • Uses simple tools in a safe and appropriate manner
        • Recognizes the need to care for materials, and uses materials without wasting them
        • Begins to use some technology appropriately in learning activities and to communicate with others
        • Becomes aware of the importance of protecting the environment. 
      • Recognize First Peoples stories (including oral and written narratives), songs, and art, as ways to share knowledge