Animals that Cooperate Informational Text and HOTS Q Sub Plan Enrichment

Description

2 pages of informational text plus 2 pages of analysis questions about 7 animals that display unique cooperation behaviors.

Learn about the community that honey bees build and how they interact with each other. Read about African elephants and their matriarchal society. Read how emperor penguins and meerkats take turns protecting the other members of their group – penguins by rotating into and out of warmer and colder parts of the pack and meercats by taking turns being the sentinel to watch out for predators. And read about cooperative hunting behaviors as exhibited by orcas, wolves, and wild dogs.

Includes:

• 2 page PDF document
• 2 page worksheet including analysis questions applying what you’ve learned
• answer key
• link to create a copy of the document in your own Google Drive so that you can edit, add or remove questions or assign for students to complete digitally!

When you’re assembling your sub folder, choose a meaningful assignment that will help build scientific literacy. This resource addresses the NGSS standards of critical thinking and communication skills including scientific literacy which apply to all of the benchmarks. In addition to sub plans, this resource is a great early finisher activity or enrichment activity for students during a unit on scientific theory.

It is designed to take 5th-8th graders students one class period to complete independently. No prep or materials required. Also useful for early finishers or for enrichment.

See my other sub plans and enrichment activities here.