5th Grade Science Heather Cheslock Biomes 5th Grade Science Heather Cheslock

Objectives Know the 7 main biomes. Know where they are located. Know from each Biome, 2 types of vegetation that can be found there. 2 types of animals that can be found there. What the climate is like in each biome.

Group Project / Activity Break up the class into 7 groups with 5 kids in each group. Assign each group one biome to answer basic questions on. Have them find pictures and take their answers to the questions and put together a power point to present to the class.

Basic Questions What are Biomes? What are the 7 main Biomes? Where are they located? What types of vegetation can be found there? What types of animals can be found there? What kind of climate can be found there?

TEKS §112.7. Science, Grade 5. (9) Science concepts. The student knows that adaptations may increase the survival of members of a species. The student is expected to: (A) compare the adaptive characteristics of species that improve their ability to survive and reproduce in an ecosystem; (B) analyze and describe adaptive characteristics that result in an organism's unique niche in an ecosystem; and (C) predict some adaptive characteristics required for survival and reproduction by an organism in an ecosystem.

References http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=6148