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Course: 3rd grade reading & vocabulary > Unit 3
Lesson 1: Building knowledgeWelcome to the Extreme Environments unit!
Your environment means everything around you. The weather, the landscape, and the types of plants and animals that live there are all part of your environment. Some places on earth have extreme environments—places that are incredibly hot or cold, or that have intense storms. These extremes can affect life dramatically!
In this unit, you will:
- Learn about extreme environments
- Read stories that take place in those environments
- Think about how living somewhere with extreme weather affects how people live
By:
- Watching videos to help you understand what good readers and writers do
- Reading and answering questions about literary and informational texts
- Learning new academic words
In order to answer the essential question: How does climate affect life?
Want to join the conversation?
- Why do we learn things like this?(14 votes)
- It's important to know about things like extreme weather, eventually you'll be in a situation where you'll have to deal with something like a bad thunderstorm! It is very good to be prepared!(30 votes)
- how dose climate affect life?(13 votes)
- Your climate can tell a lot of things about where you live, because organisms adapt to their surroundings. The easiest example of this is camouflage. If you take any animal living on ice caps, it'll probably be white. If you do the same for an animal in the desert, it'll probably be sand-colored.
For people, the climate can affect how you dress, what sort of food you eat, your main income source, and a whole bunch of things like that.(16 votes)
- How hard and easy is it?(13 votes)
- It all depends on your mindset, if you set your mind on learning it, it will be less difficult then if you set your mind on not wanting to learn it.(11 votes)
- Are environments important(6 votes)
- Yes your environment is important but my current environment outside has thunder(4 votes)
- also david is funny lol(6 votes)
- I don't understand what 'also David is funny lol' means.(2 votes)
- What do you have to do(5 votes)
- Watch more videos about nature(3 votes)
- How can plants and animals adapt to live in extreme environments?(5 votes)
- david is funny(4 votes)
- I do not understand. please confirm(2 votes)
- Why do we call it extreme weather?(3 votes)
- because it may harm us(2 votes)