
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 $325
The rental cost for two weeks (two consecutive weeks) is $525
The rental cost for two weeks (three consecutive weeks) is $675
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