Science 4: Organism Structures

Animals have special body parts to help them catch and eat their food.

Animals move in different ways to find food, escape danger, and explore new places

Animals are made up of different parts or structures. These structures help the animals to survive in their environment.

Animals have parts on the outside of their bodies, called external structures, that help them to survive and get the things they need to grow and reproduce.

Learn what the outside of bodies and why different animals have different outside structures.

Learn why some animals have scales and how scales help them survive

What are wings for? Why do some animals have them?

In this handout, you can lfind out about how do green plants get their food

Kai makes punk-rock cabbage to show us how plants drink water. It’s a colourful result!

We’ll explore how taxonomy and systematics help us understand what plants are and where they come from.

Plant knowledge in particular has always been central to Indigenous lifeways. These plant activities are meant to support this kind of experiential and relational learning.

We discuss the terms vascular vs nonvascular and how they relate to plants before exploring some general categories of plants

Learn about how the structures of a plant help them to survive in their environments.

Watch this video to learn more about the different parts of flowers and how each part does a certain job. Take the quiz after you watch the video.

Watch this video about how plants adapt to different environments. After you watch the video, you can take the quiz to test what you have learned.

This slideshow of images describes the jobs that the roots and stems have to keep a plant healthy. There's a quiz to test your learning.

Discover the adaptations that allow cacti to not only survive, but thrive, in some of the harshest desert climates on Earth. Related Lesson

What are plant roots? And what are their three main functions?

Devon Ritter explores how animals use their senses of touch, hearing, sight, and smell to survive in different environments. Teacher resources accompany this video

Read this ebook to learn all about how different animals use their senses in different ways.

Some animals have special senses that humans don't have. Let's learn about them!

Many animals use the same five senses as we do, but these creatures take that beyond the next level.

A stimulus is any change or signal that an organism can recognize and react to. The reaction to that stimulus is called a response.

When animals or fungi attack, plants are ready, with a whole series of internal and external defenses that make them a less appealing meal — or even a deadly one. Related Lesson

Scientists have discovered that plants have their own type of nervous system that allows them to respond to stimuli

These South American plants can mimic other trees, and it's possible that they can do this because they can SEE.

Why do some flowers close at night and open during the day? What gives plants this innate sense of time? Related Lesson

A lively presenter engages kids in learning about the interesting lives of plants

n this activity student will record sounds at different levels (low, medium and high) and code creatures to make those sounds when clicked on in Scratch. Finding Sheet; Coding Sheet

In this lesson, students will design their own plant with the appropriate adaptations for survival.

While doing 5 activities, students will explore how their 5 sense create sensory input for their brain

Students design and construct a sound shield while applying their knowledge of sound properties Slides; Handout; Rubric