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Adapt Island!

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COMBINED RATING

4.4 Stars

TEACHERS (71)

4.4

STUDENTS (65089)

4.4

LENGTH

15 Minutes

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Description

You have arrived on Adapt Island! Angry Robots have appeared on this once relaxing island. You'll need to Adapt in order to bring peace to the island and help the friendly animals that live there. Discover a mystical power that allows you to choose which adaptations you would like to help you on your journey!

Vocabulary Words

adaptation

survival

behavioral adaptation

structural adaptation

predator

hibernation

physical traits

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Adaptation. Suitable for Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5.

Main Concepts

Changes to an organism’s habitat can sometimes benefit it and sometimes harm it.

Survival is the ability of an organism to stay alive in its environment.

Groups of birds migrate in the winter to survive temperature changes in their environment.

Animals use different methods to store food, find shelter, defend themselves, and rear young.

Different organisms need different things from their environments in order to survive.

Migration is a behavioral adaptation in which animals move to a new temporary habitat to meet their needs.

Some examples of traits in plants and animals are size, color, texture, shape, and patterns.

If an environment fully meets the needs of an organism, the organism can survive well there.

When an environment changes, some adaptations that helped an organism survive in the previous environment may no longer help it survive.

An instinctual response is a behavior that an animal does automatically without thinking about it.

A habitat is the place in which an animal or plant naturally lives.

Learned experiences can change animal behavior and affect animal traits as they develop.

Hibernation is a behavioral adaptation that allows an animal’s body activities to slow down during the winter.

An adaptation is a trait that allows an organism to survive in its environment.

Some organisms can thrive in one kind of habitat and not in another.

A trait is a characteristic of an organism.

Behavioral adaptations are activities that organisms perform to meet their life needs.

Plants and animals are adapted to the environments in which they live.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

What is the difference between a physical trait and a behavioral trait? What is an adaptation? Why are adaptations important to the survival of a living thing?

After the Game

What were some of the adaptations that you could choose during the game? How do the adaptations you chose during the game help those animals survive in their environment? What are some adaptations that animals may have that were not included in the game (think about fish and animals in other types of habitats)?

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Lexile Level

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