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What Will We Find at Shell Cove?

Compare plant and animal kinds in beach dunes and a tide pool, then use observation records to predict future findings.

Grade 2ScienceInteractive · Printable

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: Science
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students compare the kinds of plants and animals observed in two beach habitats.
Students use habitat observations as evidence for predictions about living things.

How to use

Read the observation record together and review what each bar counts. Have students use the records to answer, then share their final predictions.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

2-LS4-1

Compare the variety of plants and animals living in different habitats.

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What Will We Find at Shell Cove?

Compare two beach habitats and use observations to make predictions.

Compare the Cove Records

Read the class record. Use the record and graph to answer the questions.

Two Places at One Beach

A class visited Shell Cove on three mornings. With an adult, students watched two habitats, or places where living things live. One was a sandy dune above the waves. The other was a rocky tide pool that held seawater after the tide went out.

On each visit, students watched the same-sized area in each habitat for ten minutes. They stayed on dry ground and did not touch the living things. They wrote down each different kind of plant and animal they saw. Seeing more ants did not add another kind to the list.

Dune record: Plants—dune grass, beach pea, sea rocket. Animals—ants, beetles, grasshoppers.

Tide pool record: Plants—surfgrass, a plant that grows in seawater. Animals—sea stars, shore crabs, sea anemones, mussels.

The class recorded these same kinds on all three visits. These lists show what the class saw, not every living thing that could be in each habitat.