In this lesson, students learn about habitats and how plants, prey, and predators interact based on their needs. Students see how factors like warming temperatures and human interactions can alter habitats and affect wildlife.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students watch trail camera clips to note the biodiversity in a habitat.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students play the Biodiversity Game to simulate the interactions between living things.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students sketch a picture showing an interaction they had during the game and explain it using cause and effect language.

In this lesson, students use a base number to compare the numbers of extinct, endangered, and vulnerable species and consider how to help protect animals and plants.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students estimate the number of living things in a group to get a sense of the large number of species in the world.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students write numbers to represent the number of living things on the IUCN's Red List.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students compare and contrast numbers to compare groups of living things, reflecting on how to help living things in their community.

In this lesson, students learn about how people are protecting living things and create their own plan to protect living things.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students learn about how artists are helping species in critical categories on the Red List.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students watch a video illustrating the actions taken by humans to help protect a species.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students design a solution to help a living thing. 

In this lesson, students investigate why sea level rise is occurring and consider how people’s actions can alter its course.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students complete a coloring activity to represent the changes in sea level rise, offer ideas about why this is happening, and discuss its implications and their feelings about it.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students test their ideas about why the sea level is rising, discover their misconceptions, and confirm predictions.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students link art to awareness and brainstorm ideas for how to spread knowledge about sea level rise in their own community.

In this lesson, students learn about science experiments, design and execute an experiment to learn about what plants need to survive, and communicate their findings to others.

Step 1 - Inquire:  Students observe the differences between freshwater, brackish water, and saltwater in order to make predictions about what plants need to survive.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students design and carry out an experiment to test their predictions about what plants need to survive. 

Step 3 - Inspire: Students use their findings to add information to their art project.

In this lesson, students reflect on how salt affects plants, learn how some communities are finding ways to grow plants in saltier conditions, and create a mural to share their learning with the community.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students reflect on the results of the experiment in Lesson 3 and the effects of salt on plants.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students read about the effects of salinity on crops around the world and consider the requirements for plant survival in a different context.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students combine knowledge from Lessons 1-4 of the unit and create a mural to educate their community.

In this lesson, students read charts and graphs about weather, climate, and climate change and represent data in a graph.

Step 1 - Inquire: Students compare types of data representation using a matching game.

Step 2 - Investigate: Students analyze data representation in relation to their understanding of weather, climate, and climate change.

Step 3 - Inspire: Students represent data in a graph and make predictions based on evidence.