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Grades 3-5 Teacher Guide

Chock-full of instructional tools, our Nature Unleashed Teacher Guide equips you to help your elementary students meet several Missouri grade-level expectations through the study of Missouri’s ponds, forests and prairies.

Grades 3-5 Teacher Guide Introduction

Browse the Nature Unleashed table of contents, unit timeframes, lesson plan components, field safety precautions, work sheets, activities, assessment strategies, resource and GLE lists and more. More

Grades 3-5 Teacher Guide Lesson One

It’s all Connected includes vocabulary, objectives, notes, transparency masters, activities and an assessment tool to help you teach how living and non-living things combine to form an ecosystem. More

Grades 3-5 Teacher Guide Lesson Two

Using three Missouri ecosystems as examples, It’s What’s Inside That Counts includes lots of resources and one GLE to help you teach how ecosystems develop through the interactions of living and non-living things. More

Grades 3-5 Teacher Guide Lesson Three

Packed with classroom tools and covering five GLEs, Having What it Takes—to Survive equips you to teach how specialized structures in plants and animals help them survive in specific ecosystems. More

Grades 3-5 Teacher Guide Lesson Four

Including lots of resources and covering six GLEs, Chain of Foods helps you teach how the sun’s energy passes through an ecosystem’s producers and consumers, and how the loss of one population affects the whole food chain. More

Grades 3-5 Teacher Guide Lesson Five

Including lots of classroom resources and covering two GLEs, You Eat What?! helps you teach students about ecosystem consumers, scavengers and decomposers. More

Grades 3-5 Teacher Guide Lesson Six

Loaded with classroom tools and covering two GLEs, You Want Flies with That? helps you teach concept of predator and prey in relationship to other organisms in an ecosystem. More

Grades 3-5 Teacher Guide Lesson Seven

With lots of classroom tools and covering one GLE, It All Makes Sense equips you to teach how an ecosystem’s populations constantly rebalance in response to natural forces or manmade disturbances. More

Grades 3-5 Teacher Guide Lesson Eight

Lots of classroom tools and one GLE help you teach that Humans Are Organisms, Too and can create beneficial or harmful effects on living and non-living parts of the ecosystem. More

Title: Grades 3-5 Teacher Guide Appendices

Additional Nature Unleashed teaching resources include a depth-of-knowledge chart, performance-event template, scoring guides for writing and speaking, field-trip planning guide, pre- and post-test, assessment item bank, and ecosystem cards key for chapter 5. More

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