Plants and Animals in Habitats

This game required students to move the cursor over the screen, click, and collect eight different living things in a woodland and pond scene so the can be sorted by habitat: woodland or pond. A magnifying glass click reveals more information about each object: description, where it lives, what it eats, what it's eaten by, and a fact. Then the pictures can be sorted into a woodland or pond food chain.

This game is extremely student friendly. It has a help button that highlights and explains each part of the game. Students can read the text or click audio and have every part of the game read. Arrows can be clicked to make the game slightly harder or easier. A quiz is also included. This game supports understanding that plants and animals need a place to live and grow. Additionally, this game supports understanding that animals need pants or other animals for food in order to grow.

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Standards & Objectives

Academic standards

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.5: Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or...
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.3: Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text...
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.5: Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information...
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.6: Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.3: Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters...
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.9: Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.
GLE 0107.3.1: Recognize that plants and animals are living things that grow and change over time.
GLE 0501.6.3: Explore the organizational structures of informational texts.
GLE 0501.8.2: Experience various literary genres, including fiction and nonfiction, poetry, drama, chapter books, biography/autobiography, short stories, folk tales, myths,...
SPI 0501.5.2: Identify stated or implied cause and effect relationships in text.
TSS.ELA.5.RI.CS.6: Analyze the similarities and differences in points of view of multiple accounts of the same event or topic.
TSS.ELA.5.RI.IKI.9: Integrate information from two or more texts on the same topic in order to build content knowledge.
TSS.ELA.5.RI.KID.3: Explain the relationships and interactions among two or more individuals, events, and/or ideas in a text.
TSS.ELA.5.RL.CS.6: Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.
TSS.ELA.5.RL.IKI.9: Compare and contrast stories in the same genre on their approaches to similar themes and topics.
TSS.ELA.5.RL.KID.3: Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in a text.

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References

Contributors:

Becky Holden

Originator:

Ayers Institute for Learning & Innovation