Classroom Programs for 4th Grade
Beavers
The New York State mammal is an interesting critter with amazing adaptations. Learn also how a fashion moved people west in America’s early days!
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NY 3.1a Each animal has different structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction.
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PA EE 4.7.4 B.1 Explain how specific adaptations can help a living organism to survive.
Deadly Links
After reviewing the elements in a food chain, students become grasshoppers, shrews, and hawks and discover what happens when pesticides enter a food chain.
- NY 6.1a-c (summarized) Plants are producers. All animals depend on plants. Some animals eat other animals. This sequence is called a food chain.
- NY 7.1c Humans, as individuals or communities, change environments in ways that can be either helpful or harmful for themselves and other organisms.
- PA EE 4.6.4 A.8 Understand the components of a food chain.
- PA EE 4.7.4 B.2 Explain what happens to a living thing when its food, water, shelter or space is changed.
- PA EE 4.8.4 C Explain how human activities may change the environment.
Plight of the Bluebird
Students explore the decline and remarkable comeback of the New York State bird, the bluebird, through an interactive game.
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NY 7.1c Humans, as individuals or communities, change environments in ways that can be either helpful or harmful for themselves and other organisms.
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PA EE 4.8.4 C Explain how human activities may change the environment.
