Staying Alive (Grades 1-4)
Explore and discover how animals survive in different environments. Learn how size, shape, colour and behaviour help them stay alive, and what we can do to maintain healthy habitats in our communities! The Staying Alive School Program provides students with an extraordinary hands-on opportunity to explore the underwater world by observing, discussing, and touching live aquatic animals in the Aquarium's galleries. Through this experience, the students discover the adaptations animals use to stay alive in the Amazon Rain Forest, the tropical seas, and BC waters. They also pick up some basics about conservation: Everyone can do things to help aquatic animals!
Awesome! Impressed with the knowledge of the volunteers. Surpassed my expectations! Would highly recommend this to other teachers. Thank you. - Christine, Lord Tweedsmuir Elementary
Fall and Winter Semester (Oct-Apr), Tuesdays, 10:00am and 12:30pm, 1.5 hours, $12.00/student, 20-30 students
Prescribed Learning Outcomes:
Grade 1: It is expected that students will:
- Communicate their observations, experiences, and thinking in a variety of ways (e.g., verbally, pictorially, graphically) [Processes and Skills of Science]
- Classify objects, events, and organisms [Processes and Skills of Science]
- Describe the basic needs of local plants and animals [Life Science: Needs of Living Things]
Grade 2: It is expected that students will:
- Classify familiar animals according to their similarities and differences in appearance, behaviour and life cycles [Life Science: Animal Growth and Changes]
- Explain why air, water, and soil are important for living things [Earth and Space Science: Air, Water, and Soil]
Grade 3: It is expected that students will:
- Ask questions that foster investigations and explorations relevant to the content [Processes and Skills of Science]
Grade 4: It is expected that students will:
- Compare the structures and behaviours of local animals and plants in different habitats and communities [Processes and Skills of Science]
- Determine how personal choices and actions have environmental consequences [Life Science: Habitats and Communities]