Students will closely observe live animals and habitat clues, generate evidence-based wonderings about how environments shape survival, and begin documenting observations that will guide later investigation and design work.

Students will turn observations from the animal visit into focused adaptation questions, make a simple evidence-based hypothesis, and build a peer-reviewed plan for what they will observe, compare, and record in the next phase.

Students will gather and organize adaptation evidence from observations, images, and texts; document findings in traceable notebooks and charts; test the quality of their records through peer and teacher critique; and revise their evidence-collection plan before moving into analysis.

Students will organize their adaptation evidence into clear visuals, test their conclusions against peer questions and contradictory examples, revise their team animal design using feedback, and prepare evidence-based explanations that connect habitat adaptation to neighborhood action and personal resilience.

Students will share their final animal adaptation learning with families and school guests, explain evidence from their investigation and design work, and complete a brief oral and visual reflection connecting adaptation in habitats to how they respond to challenges in their own lives.