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A Museum of Science Traveling Program
Animal Adaptations
Description
Animal Adaptations is a 50-
minute presentation that helps
students observe and identify
evolutionary changes in living
animals and animal skulls. It is
designed to build on NGSS-
based curricula.
NGSS: Next Generation Science Standards
Needs
We bring all materials and
equipment, including a
camera, video projector, and
screen. Access to 110-volt
electricity is required.
Space Requirements
The program can be set up in any room with at
least 25´ by 25´ of cleared floor area. All sessions
must be taught in the same room.
Goals: Observing Animals
Students observe up to three
live animals, from a variety of
classes, in a very intimate
setting.
Goals: Adaptations
The students identify
common characteristics
like how animals get their
energy, avoid predators
and reproduce. They
understand these are
adaptations for survival.
Goals: Classification
A secondary goal is to clarify
how adaptations are used as
the basis of biological
classification.
Goals: Skull Activity
The program culminates with
an activity. The students
observe a variety of animal
skulls and try to identify the
adaptations that determined
that animal’s diet .
Goals: Science Skills
Both the presentation and
activity exercise science
process skills, such as
observation, making valid
predictions, and data
collection.
Program Details
• Can only be booked for
school groups during the
school year.
• Only available for third- or
fourth-grade students
studying the program
content.
Program Details
• Capacity is two classes (50
students) per session.
• Up to three consecutive
sessions can be taught per
day.
Program Restrictions
• Maximum time offsite is 6
hours
• Maximum range is 100 miles
from MoS
• Not possible to split schedules
around lunch
• Not offered from mid-
December through mid-March
• Teaching spaces must have
temperatures between 70 and
85 degrees Fahrenheit
NGSS Connections• 3-LS3-1. Provide evidence, including through the analysis of data,
that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that
variation of these traits exist in a group of similar organisms.
• 3-LS3-2. Distinguish between inherited characteristics and those
characteristics that result from a direct interaction with the
environment. Give examples of characteristics of living organisms that
are influenced by both inheritance and the environment.
• 3-LS4-2. Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the
variations in characteristics among individuals within the same
species may provide advantages to these individuals in their survival
and reproduction.
• 3-LS4-3. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular
environment some organisms can survive well, some survive less
well, and some cannot survive.
NGSS Connections• 3-LS4-4. Analyze and interpret given data about changes in a habitat
and describe how the changes may affect the ability of organisms that
live in that habitat to survive and reproduce.
• 3-LS4-5. Provide evidence to support a claim that the survival of a
population is dependent upon reproduction.
• 4-LS1-1. Construct an argument that animals and plants have internal
and external structures that support their survival, growth, behavior,
and reproduction.
NGSS Scientific and Engineering
Practices
• Asking questions and defining problems.
• Developing and using models.
• Analyzing and interpreting data.
• Constructing explanations and designing solutions.
• Engaging in argument from evidence.
• Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information.
2019 – 2020 Prices
Sessions per Day Price
1 Session $450
2 Sessions $550
3 Sessions $650
No mileage fees charged in New England in 2019-20 School Year.
Animal Adaptations
For information/reservations:
mos.org/travelingprograms
617-589-0354
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