Adaptation in the Wildland

Join a ranger on a virtual field trip to the Santa Monica Mountains and experience the transition from an open grassland to an oak woodland. Students will see up close how plants adapt in different habitats and how animals are interwoven into these environments.

*Offered virtually throughout the week.

Content Focus: Adaptations and Habitats.Our distance learning programs will support the concepts of local habitats and adaptations of animals and plants, exchange of energy flow, and the phenomenon that exist in these settings.Topics and Essential Questions:

• Difference between a biome and ecosystem
• Identification of habitats and what may live there
• Human influence on an environment
• Adaptations of plants and animals within the urban wildland interface.

Next Generation Science Standards4-LS1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes4-LS1-1. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.4-LS1-2. Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.

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