Environmental Changes and Species Survival

Environmental Changes and Species Survival

🧠 What This Unit Covers:

This engaging, hands-on unit helps students explore how environmental changes—like drought, flood, deforestation, or pollution—can affect whether animals thrive, adapt, or go extinct. Students investigate the role of traits in survival using cause-and-effect reasoning, supported by rich visuals and simplified language.

📦 What’s Included:

✅ 6 Complete Lessons 
✅ Pre- and Post-Test Assessments
✅ Vocabulary with Visual Supports
✅ Experiments: “Who Will Survive the Change?” (with observation charts)
✅ Environmental Change Cards (drought, flood, fire, deforestation, pollution)
✅ Comic Strips & Picture Prompts
✅ Species Case File Investigations
✅ Sorting & Matching Activities
✅ Speech Bubble Conversations for expressive language
✅ Adapted Reading Passages
✅ Cause & Effect Activities + Check for Understanding Questions

💬 Why Teachers Love It:

• Easy to prep and teach

• Created specifically for students with cognitive disabilities

• Includes symbol-supported visuals for nonreaders

• Builds vocabulary, comprehension, and scientific thinking

• Reinforces alternate assessment skills

🎯 Skills Covered:

• Trait-based survival

• Environmental impact on species

• Adaptation, extinction, and natural selection

• Using evidence to support claims

• Scientific observation and communication

Some instructional text and visual elements on this page were generated or adapted with the assistance of AI technology (OpenAI’s ChatGPT), and reviewed by SpecialEdSimplified for accuracy and alignment with instructional goals.

🔒 Please Note: This product is for single classroom use only. If multiple teachers will be using this resource, please purchase additional licenses. 

These activities are based on Common Core Standards. Price and Willoughby, LLC make no guarantees regarding student test performance.