Objectives and Academic Standards

PreK & K: A Walk in the Desert

Let’s take an imaginary walk through the desert to discover hidden animals and plants. While meeting some of these fascinating desert dwellers, we will identify the special adaptations each has for survival in this dry environment.

Program Objectives:

通过对活体动物、人工制品和互动演示的考察，学生将:

• Develop an understanding of some physical characteristics of the desert environment.
• Identify some common Sonoran Desert plants and animals.
• 确定特定沙漠植物和动物的结构和行为，使它们能够在索诺兰沙漠环境中生存.
• Develop an appreciation for our desert and the creatures that inhabit it.
• Determine measures they can take to help conserve our desert and its life.

Arizona Academic Standards Correlation:

Science Standards:

K.L1U1.6

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about how organisms use different body parts for survival.

K.L1U1.7

Observe, ask questions, 并解释在各种动植物(包括人类)身上发现的特殊结构是如何帮助它们感知和应对环境的.

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Grades 1-2: Saguaro Partners

Did you know saguaros are only found in the Sonoran Desert? Learn how the saguaro is adapted to life here, and explore the important partnerships it shares with other living things. Discover how the saguaro depends on animals for pollination and seed dispersal, and meet the animals that rely on this giant for shelter and food.

Program Objectives:

通过对活体动物、人工制品和互动演示的考察，学生将:

• Identify the basic plant structures of the saguaro and describe their functions.
• Trace the life cycle of a saguaro.
• Identify adaptations of the saguaro that allow it to live in the Sonoran Desert environment.
• Describe relationships between the saguaro and other desert plants and animals.

Arizona Academic Standards Correlation:

Science Standards:

1.L1U1.6

Observe, describe, and predict life cycles of animals and plants.

1.L2U2.7

Develop and use models about how living things use resources to grow and survive.

1.L2U1.8 

构建一个解释，描述生物体如何从环境中获取资源，包括被其他生物体再次使用的材料.

2.L2U1.10

建立一个模型，说明地球上的生命如何依赖来自太阳和其他生物体的能量.

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Grades 2-3: Web of Life

让2022世界杯下注建立一个食物网来探索太阳的能量是如何通过植物“食物工厂”流向生产者的, consumers, and decomposers. Meet live herbivores, carnivores, 更多的是去发现每一种生物所做的重要工作，它们提供食物或向土壤返回养分，从而开始新的循环.

Program Objectives:

通过对活体动物、人工制品和互动演示的考察，学生将:

• Develop an understanding of the concept of energy flow.
• Classify Sonoran Desert species according to trophic levels.
• Create a simple food web using Sonoran Desert plants and animals.
• 确定使动植物在其生态位内生存的生理和行为适应.
• 了解生态系统中生产者和消费者群体之间的相互作用和相互依赖.
• 了解生态系统中生物和非生物成分之间的相互作用和相互依赖.

Arizona Academic Standards Correlation:

Science Standards:

2.L2U1.10

建立一个模型，说明地球上的生命如何依赖来自太阳和其他生物体的能量.

3.L2U1.7 

开发和使用系统模型来描述从太阳到生物体之间的能量流动.

3.L2U1.8

Construct an argument from evidence that organisms are interdependent.

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Grades 3-4: Amazing Arthropods

Introduce students to the incredible diversity of Sonoran Desert insects, arachnids, and other fascinating arthropods. Examine live animals and preserved specimens to learn about anatomy and adaptations. Determine the important roles of various arthropods in desert food chains, pollination, and our ecosystem.

Program Objectives:

通过对活体动物、人工制品和互动演示的考察，学生将:

• Describe and identify features used to classify arthropods.
• Develop an appreciation of the diversity of Sonoran Desert arthropods.
• 了解节肢动物在生态系统中的重要作用，并解释保护它们的原因.
• Identify actions they can take to promote arthropod conservation in their lives.

Arizona Academic Standards Correlation:

Science Standards:

3.L1U1.5

开发和使用模型来解释植物和动物(包括人类)具有内部和外部结构，这些结构具有帮助生长的各种功能, survival, behavior, and reproduction.

3.L2U1.8

Construct an argument from evidence that organisms are interdependent.

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Grades 3-5: Exploring Adaptations

植物和动物展现出令人着迷的各种适应能力，帮助它们在索诺兰沙漠茁壮成长. 研究沙漠植物的结构，揭示它们如何应对这种环境的极端温度和干旱. Then meet some live desert animals and identify their secrets to success as desert dwellers!

Program Objectives:

通过对沙漠植物、活体动物和保存标本的考察，学生将:

• Identify limited water, extreme temperatures, and aridity as challenges to life in the Sonoran Desert.
• 要明白适应是生物种群随着时间的推移所表达的可遗传特征.
• Describe at least 3 adaptations cacti have that enable them to survive the aridity, scant and variable rainfall, and temperature extremes of the desert climate.
• Describe how native shrubs and trees are adapted for desert survival.
• 培养对居住动物在沙漠中生存的行为和生理适应的欣赏.
• Consider what effects rapid environmental change (i.e. global warming) could have on organisms adapted to specific environmental conditions.

Arizona Academic Standards Correlation:

Science Standards:

3.L1U1.5 

开发和使用模型来解释植物和动物(包括人类)具有内部和外部结构，这些结构具有帮助生长的各种功能, survival, behavior, and reproduction.  

5.L4U3.12

基于遗传特征会受到行为和/或环境条件影响的证据，构建一个论点.

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Grades 5-8: Design by Nature

仿生学是一种创新方法，通过模仿大自然经过时间考验的模式和策略，寻求可持续的解决方案，以应对人类面临的挑战. Through experimentation with models, a live animal encounter, and exploration of how animal and plant adaptations have inspired human innovation, students will understand and be inspired to seek solutions to modern sustainability problems.

Program Objectives

Students will be able to:

• 了解仿生学，并举例说明大自然的灵感如何用于人类的创新.
• 调查和描述沙漠植物和动物适应收集和节约水和保持凉爽的一些方法.
• 将沙漠植物和动物的适应性融入他们自己的水和节能沙漠住宅的设计中.

Arizona Academic Standards Correlation:

Science Standards:

5.L4U3.12

基于遗传特征会受到行为和/或环境条件影响的证据，构建一个论点.

5th Grade - Science and engineering practices;  

Analyzing & interpreting data: 

• Analyze data to refine a problem statement or the design of a proposed object, tool or process. 

Using mathematics & computational thinking: 

• 使用数学思维和/或计算结果来比较工程问题的不同解决方案. 

 

Constructing explanations & designing solutions: 

• Use evidence (e.g., measurements, observations, patterns) to construct a scientific explanation or design a solution to a problem 
• Apply scientific knowledge to solve design problems. 

 Engaging in argument from evidence 

• Construct and/or support scientific arguments with evidence, data, and/or a model. 
• 通过引用相关证据来证明某个问题的解决方案是如何满足问题的标准和约束条件的，从而对该解决方案的优点做出断言. 

Science Standards:

6.L2U1.13  

使用证据构建关于人类活动对环境的影响以及它们如何积极和消极地影响生态系统中能源和资源的竞争的论点.

8.E1U3.8

构建并支持关于人类对有限资源的消耗如何影响生物圈的论点.

6-8 Grade – Science and engineering practices;

Analyzing & interpreting data:  

• Analyze and interpret data in order to determine similarities and differences in findings. 

Using mathematics & computational thinking: 

• Use digital tools, mathematical concepts, and arguments to test and compare proposed solutions to an engineering design problem. 
• 使用数学论据来描述和支持科学结论和设计解决方案. 

Constructing explanations and designing solutions: 

• Construct explanations from models or representations. 

Engage in argument from evidence:  

• Construct, use, 在经验证据和科学推理的支持下，提出口头和书面的论据，以支持或反驳对现象的解释或对问题的解决方案. 

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Grades 5-8: Invasive Species

人类正在以前所未有的速度将植物和动物迁移到新的环境中. 发现是什么让非本地物种入侵，并了解这给索诺兰沙漠的标志性植物带来的挑战, animals, and landscapes. Explore solutions to these threats and learn ways that we can all help! (This program requires classroom equipment for a PowerPoint presentation.)

Arizona Academic Standards Correlation:

Science Standards:

5.L4U3.11

Obtain, evaluate, 并传达有关自然和人为引起的栖息地或气候变化如何影响人口的证据.

5th Grade: Science and engineering practice;

Analyzing and interpreting data:

• Interpret data to make sense of and explain phenomena

Using logical reasoning, mathematics, and/or computation:

• 使用数学论据来描述和支持科学结论和设计解决方案. 

6.L2U3.11

使用证据构建关于人类活动对环境的影响以及它们如何积极和消极地影响生态系统中能源和资源的竞争的论点.  

6.L2U3.12

根据证据进行论证，支持导致物种变化的因素以及人类如何影响这些因素的主张.

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All Ages: Desert Reptiles

From lizards, to tortoises, to snakes, meet the remarkable reptiles of the Sonoran Desert. Compare their diverse strategies for movement, defense, and feeding. Discover the unique adaptations that make them hardy desert survivors.

Program Objectives:

通过对活体动物、人工制品和互动演示的考察，学生将:

• Identify the characteristics which separate reptiles from other vertebrates.
• Learn about the desert adaptations of several Sonoran reptiles.
• Understand how ectothermic animals function.
• Acquire an appreciation for our desert and the creatures that inhabit it.

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All Ages: Flying Friends

Birds, bats, and bees are all around us, but what makes them special? 让2022世界杯下注来探索一下它们在空中的适应性，以及它们是如何利用飞行的力量来发挥它们在沙漠生态系统中的独特作用的. We’ll even meet a live feathered friend!

Program Objectives:

通过对活体动物、人工制品和互动演示的考察，学生将:

• 辨别昆虫、蝙蝠和鸟类翅膀之间的区别，以及它们是如何飞行的.
• Understand some of the roles of flighted animals in ecosystems as pollinators, seed spreaders, predators, and more.
• Acquire an appreciation for our desert and the diversity of creatures that inhabit it.

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All Ages: Meet the Neighbors

作为索诺兰沙漠的居民，2022世界杯下注有幸与许多动植物共享沙漠. Some may seem unfamiliar or even a little scary. 2022世界杯下注将探索动物居民的生活方式和有益作用，并学习如何与野生动物成为好邻居.

Program Objectives:

通过对活体动物、人工制品和互动演示的考察，学生将:

• Identify structures and behaviors that plants and animals employ for survival in our desert.
• Understand the importance of plants and animals and their unique roles in desert ecosystems.
• Acquire an appreciation for our desert and the diversity of creatures that inhabit it.
• Learn how we can be good stewards of our desert ecosystem.

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