Junior - Senior Kindergarten
Students will explore colours, shapes, textures, and the pronunciation and meaning of their names with a particular focus on reptiles and amphibians. Students will also learn where these animals come from and the adaptations that they have to survive in their environment.
Grade 1: Natural Environments
Students will explore the needs and characteristics of living things, with a particular focus on reptiles and amphibians. Students will assess the importance of a healthy environment for reptiles and amphibians, look at basic needs of reptiles and amphibians and how they compare to the basic needs of humans, and compare the physical characteristics of reptiles and amphibians, and compare it to humans and other animals.
Grade 2: Growth and Changes
Students will explore the growth and changes of animals, particularly reptiles and amphibians. They will assess how reptiles and amphibians impact the environment and society. They will compare the physical characteristics of various reptiles and amphibians, how different reptiles and amphibians move, look at the life cycles of various reptiles and amphibians, and examine how they adapt to their environment.
Grade 3: Plant and Animal Interaction
Students will explore how plants interact with reptiles and amphibians. They will assess how plants benefit reptiles and amphibians, thereby making them useful to the environment and society. They will identify the basic needs of plants, the different parts of prehistoric and present-day plants, and the role reptiles and amphibians play in affecting plants.
Grade 4: Habitats and Foodwebs
Students will look at reptiles and amphibians and their habitats. They will assess the impacts of human activities on reptiles and amphibians and their habitats. They will look at what reptiles and amphibians need from their habitats to survive, the interrelationships between reptiles, amphibians, and other living things in an ecosystem, the role of reptiles and amphibians in food webs, and the adaptations they have to survive in specific habitats.
Grade 5: Body systems
Students will look at human body systems (such as the circulatory, respiratory, and digestive systems) and compare them to reptiles and amphibians. They will explore how different environmental needs affect what and how these systems do.
Grade 6: Evolution and Adaptations
Students will explore biodiversity with a particular focus on reptiles and amphibians. They will assess the benefits of biodiversity of reptiles and amphibians, and issues that are affecting these animals. They will explore the distinguishing characteristics of reptiles and amphibians and how they are classified in the classification system. They will explore how and why biodiversity among reptiles and amphibians is essential to their survival, the impacts of invasive species and climate change on reptiles and amphibians, and the interrelationship between reptiles and amphibians and other living things.
Grade 7: Ecosystems and Conservation
Students will explore interactions in the environment with a particular focus on reptiles and amphibians. They will look at the interactions between reptiles, amphibians, and other living things in an ecosystem, identify biotic and abiotic components that affect reptiles and amphibians in an ecosystem, explore the different roles and relationships between producers, consumers, and decomposers, and how matter is cycled within the environment with the help of reptiles and amphibians.
Grade 8: Cells
Students will explore cells, with a particular focus on reptiles and amphibians. They will identify different cell components in animals like amphibians and reptiles, and how they compare to humans. They will explore the organization of cells into tissues, organs, and systems, and how these differ based on the animals' needs and environment (such as how some reptiles use cells to regenerate their tails).
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