Description
Teaches the role of turtles in maintaining water quality in rivers and lakes, and identifies problems and solution to help turtle populations at risk to survive. Helps students understand the importance organisms and animals play in keeping ecosystems clean. Also explores how ecosystems are a system of many different, and that many different aspects of the environment need to be protected in order to provide clean water.
Ontario Curriculum Connections
Science and Technology
Understanding Life Systems, Grade 4 (Habitats and Communities)
- analyse the positive and negative impacts of human interactions with natural habitats and communities, taking different perspectives into account, and evaluate ways of minimizing the negative impacts
- identify factors that affect the ability of plants and animals to survive in a specific habitat
- demonstrate an understanding of habitats as areas that provide plants and animals with the necessities of life
- demonstrate an understanding of a community as a group of interacting species sharing a common habitat
- describe structural adaptations that allow plants and animals to survive in specific habitats
- identify reasons for the depletion or extinction of a plant or animal species (e.g. changes in or destruction of its habitat), evaluate the impacts on the rest of the natural community, and propose possible actions for preventing such depletions or extinctions from happening
- describe structural adaptations that allow plants and animals to survive in specific habitats
- explain why changes in the environment have a greater impact on specialized species than on generalized species
- demonstrate an understanding of why all habitats have limits to the number of plants and animals they can support
Understanding Life Systems, Grade 6 (Biodiversity)
- describe ways in which biodiversity within and among communities is important for maintaining the resilience of these communities
- demonstrate an understanding of biodiversity as the variety of life on earth, including variety within each species of plant and animal, among species of plants and animals in communities, and among communities and the physical landscapes that support them
- describe ways in which biodiversity within species is important for maintaining the resilience of those species
