November 2025

I'm So Picky!

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Help the Pika Pick Flowers!

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Academic Standards

 

Learning Objective:

Children will examine how a pika’s behavior in autumn helps it survive the winter.


Science Focus:

animal behavior and characteristics, animal adaptations


Page 4 Skill:

read a map

 

Vocabulary:

dens, survive

 

CCSS:

RI.2.1 key details; RI.2.2 identify the main topic; RI.2.4 determine meanings of words; RI.2.5 text features; RI.2.10 read informational texts; RF.2.3 decode words; RF.2.4 read on-level texts; W.2.2 writing; SL.2.1 collaborative conversations; SL.2.3 ask and answer questions

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