Environmental Relationships Readers and Passages
Beaver The Builder Animals
This passage explores NGSS K-ESS2-2 through examples of animals modifying their environment. Students learn how differen...
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How Plants and Animals Change Their World
This passage addresses NGSS K-ESS2-2 by demonstrating how plants and small animals can make significant changes to their...
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Mole's Garden
This passage addresses NGSS K-ESS2-2 by showing how moles unintentionally create beneficial environmental changes. Stude...
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Spider's Web Home
This passage supports NGSS K-ESS2-2 learning through observations of spider web construction. Students discover how smal...
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How Worms, Bees, and Ladybugs Help the Garden
This passage demonstrates how garden organisms form an interconnected system. Students learn how different creatures con...
The Pond Crew
This passage explores how pond organisms form a functioning system. Students discover how different species contribute t...
Ant Colony Home
This passage demonstrates how ant colonies function as a system through division of labor. Students learn how different ...
Desert Home
This passage explores the relationships between desert organisms and their environment. Students learn how different spe...
Forest Friends
This passage demonstrates how forest organisms rely on specific habitat features. Students discover how different specie...
Water for All
This passage demonstrates how water serves as an essential resource for all living things. Students learn how different ...
Earth's Gifts
This passage explores how humans and other living things use Earth's natural resources. Students discover how various na...
Beehive Workers
This passage demonstrates how bee colonies function as systems with specialized roles. Students learn how different type...
Car Parts Team
This passage explores how mechanical systems require cooperation between parts. Students learn how various components co...
Tree Home Layers
This passage explores how tree habitats function as multilayered systems. Students learn how different animals use vario...
School Lunch Team
This passage demonstrates how human systems require cooperation. Students learn how different roles contribute to a func...
Nature Questions
This passage shows how daily observations spark scientific inquiry. Students learn to ask questions about natural phenom...
Sky Watchers
This passage demonstrates how watching weather phenomena leads to scientific questions and investigation. Students learn...