4th Grade: UV Animal Shelter
Overview
Students use pipe cleaners and uv sensitive beads to create an animal and then design a structure that will protect the animal and keep it from changing colors in the sun.
Instructor Directions
Grade Level 4: UV Animal Shelter
Inspired by https://buggyandbuddy.com/sun-shelter/
| Driving Question / Scenario | Can you design and build a shelter that will protect a UV sensitive animal from the sun? |
| Project Summary | Students use pipe cleaners and uv sensitive beads to create an animal and then design a structure that will protect the animal and keep it from changing colors in the sun. |
| Estimated Time | 45-60 min |
| Materials / Resources | Pipe cleaners, uv beads, popsicle sticks, glue, tape, construction paper, and other materials you would like to use to build with |
| Standards | 4.L.1.1 Give examples of changes in an organism’s environment that are beneficial to it and some that are harmful. |
| Project Outline | |
| Ask | Can you build a structure that will protect an animal with UV sensitivities from the sun? |
| Imagine | Imagine that you are working at a zoo and you have been asked to build a habitat for a new animal that has sensitivities to the sun. |
| Plan | You must use the materials made available to you to design and build your structure so that your animal does not change colors when outside. |
| Create | Build your structure and animal. |
| Improve | After testing your animal and structure in the sun, what modifications can be made so that your animal stays white? |
| Closure / Student Reflections | Discuss successes and failures and allow students to share their structures with the class. |
| Possible Modifications / Extensions | |
| Tags (Subject, robot used, literature) | Science, Adaptations, Animals |
