Zoom Program featuring Willow the Barn Owl and Topper the Burrowing Owl

This program explores concepts related to the following Next Generation Science Standards and Cross Cutting Concepts:

• LS2.C: Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience

  When the environment changes in ways that affect a place’s physical characteristics, temperature, or availability of resources, some organisms survive and reproduce, others move to new locations, yet others move into the transformed environment, and some die. (secondary to 3-LS4-4)

• LS2.D: Social Interactions and Group Behavior

  Being part of a group helps animals obtain food, defend themselves, and cope with changes. Groups may serve different functions and vary dramatically in size.

• LS4.C: Adaptation
  For any particular environment, some kinds of organisms survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. (3-LS4-3)

• LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans
  Populations live in a variety of habitats, and change in those habitats affects the organisms living there. (3-LS4-4)

•  LS3A: Inheritance of Traits

  Many characteristics of organisms are inherited from their parents. (3-LS3-1)

  Other characteristics result from individuals’ interactions with the environment, which can range from diet to learning. Many characteristics involve both inheritance and environment. (3- LS3-2)

• LS3.B: Variation of Traits

  Different organisms vary in how they look and function because they have different inherited information. (3-LS3-1)
  The environment also affects the traits that an organism develops. (3-LS3-2)

• LS4.B: Natural Selection
  Sometimes the differences in characteristics between individuals of the same species provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing. (3-LS4-2)