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: 

https://youtu.be/4U0_33W7_70

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

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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