Grade Four

This site gives an excellent description of different habitats and talks about the plants and animals of most of them.

The following sites are excellent for general animal research on plants and animals found in the desert as well as for desert adaptations.*

Desert Animals and Wildlife - http://www.desertusa.com/animal.html -
This site provides profiles of the many different kinds of animals in the desert and their skills of survival.*

Desert Animal Survival - http://www.desertusa.com/survive.html This web site explains how desert animals have learned to survive a hostile environment through physiological and behavioural adaptations.*

Desert Plant Survival - http://www.desertusa.com/du_plantsurv.html -
An excellent summary of how some plants are able to thrive in a desert environment.*

Plant and Animal Adaptation to the Cold
http://www.antarctic.com.au/encyclopaedia/bio/Pl&AnCold.html - is an introduction to the following two sites.*
Plants and Cold Blooded Animals -
http://www.antarctic.com.au/encyclopaedia/bio/ColdBlAn.html - Warm Blooded Animals- http://www.antarctic.com.au/encyclopaedia/bio/WarmBlAn.html -summarizes adaptive measures taken by warm blooded animals to survive the cold.*

http://www.gov.nt.ca/kids/school/school.htm
Animals of the Northwest Territories.*

Information and an Experiment for Tundra Adaptations students can do*
http://www.blm.gov/education/arctic/tundra_adapt.html

http://www.blm.gov/education/arctic/keep_warm.html

http://www.blm.gov/education/arctic/survive.html

At the Sea World site if you click on an Animal on the left there will be an adaptations section with lots of good facts.*

http://www.seaworld.org/infobook.html

This is a very cool matching game involving adaptations*

http://www.quia.com/mc/2373.html

4-1-07 Investigate and describe a variety of local and regional habitats and their associated populations of plants and animals.

4-1-14 Investigate natural and human-caused changes to habitats, and identify resulting effects on plant and animal populations.
4-1-15 Describe how their actions can help conserve plant and animal populations and their habitats.

http://www.fortwhyte.org
Students can learn about the efforts for the environment made by Fort Whyte Centre. The Winnipeg Wild link gives suggestions for helping their community habitats.

4-2-13 Identify technological developments that extend our ability to see and recognize their impact on science.

http://www.brainpop.com/
This site is very busy but turn down the sound and check out the movie on hearing, though it takes forever to load, a quiz happens while you are waiting for the movie to load. Worth a close look.*

4-3-17 Investigate to identify inventions related to sound and describe their impact on society.

4-4-02 Classify rocks and minerals according to student generated criteria
4-4-03 Test to determine characteristics of rocks and properties of minerals, and classify accordingly

Please note that students are classifying according to student generated criteria. Some of the following links relate to that and then go on to common methods of classifying rocks and minerals which will add to the students understanding of the Cluster and further SO's within it. 4-4-08 section sites more specifically discuss classifications due to rock formation. (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic)

4-4-05 Compare rocks and minerals from the local environment with each other and with those from other geological areas.

4-4-07 Describe how characteristics of rocks and properties of minerals determine their uses.

4-4-08 Recognize that there are three types of rock, and describe how each is formed.

4-4-10 Describe how fossils help humans gain a better understanding of Earth's history, including, identifying organisms that are now extinct.