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“Amazing Adaptations” is Lyon Arboretum’s Grade 3 field trip, which explores how adaptations allow different plants to survive in different habitats. We highlight habitats and adaptations that are present in Hawaiʻi to encourage your students to connect the larger concept of “adaptations” to our unique island home.
Your access fee supports the Lyon Arboretum Education Department so we can continue to support Hawaii’s schools and our community by providing educational resources.
This bundle was designed with the following NGSS standard in mind:
- 3-LS4-3. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
- Note: These resources are not designed to directly address this standard on their own, but to provide the evidence for your students to construct their arguments featuring plants, both familiar and novel, that can be found in our state.
- Interactive!
- Designed with in-person classroom use and distance learning in mind.
- Place-based! Examples of native Hawaiian plants and their adaptations are emphasized in the plant adaptations slide activity
- Your access fee supports the Lyon Arboretum Education Department so we can continue to support Hawaii’s schools and our community by providing educational resources.
The bundle includes
- Plant Adaptations video (approx 2 minutes long)
- Plant Adaptations slide activity (interactive, featuring native Hawaiian plants)
- Online review game (match the adaptation to the challenge it evolved to overcome; self-grading)
- Mr. Tim Talks Plants (learn about carnivorous plants with Mr. Tim, one of Lyon’s plant scientists)
- Habitat personality quiz (take our personality quiz to learn which habitat suits you best)
How much does it cost, and how do I get it?
Our Amazing Adaptations Digital Resources bundle is available for FREE!
To get the bundle:
You can order the bundle directly from us. You can share the resource with your grade level, but we would appreciate knowing who is using our resources.
Direct Purchase instructions:
- Fill out our Google Form with your name, email address, phone number, and school name
- We will email you with the link to access your bundle after we receive your information
How do the bundle and an in-person visit complement each other?
An in-person field trip will provide an opportunity to explore a real rainforest and observe the rainforest plants’ adaptations up close. We also have other themed gardens to explore and identify other adaptations.
If you are planning an in-person field trip to the Arboretum, we encourage you to use the activities offered in this digital bundle as pre- or post-field trip activities, either to introduce the lesson or to review what you learned at the Arboretum.
If you plan to use the digital bundle activities in your classroom prior to your in-person visit, please be sure to contact us ( LyonEdu@hawaii.edu) and let us know! We would be thrilled to work with you to modify your in-person field trip to spend more time outside exploring the Arboretum, get up close and personal with the seeds featured in the digital activities, or whatever best suits your class’s needs!
Do you have more resources like this?
Yes! Please visit our K-12 Education page for information about all our digital resources!
Contact us
Other questions, comments, or concerns? Please contact us at LyonEdu@hawaii.edu