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Habitats & Adaptation

Habitats & Adaptation

Exploring Traits, Behaviors, and Environmental Fit

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Habitats & Adaptation invites students to explore how animals survive, thrive, and adapt within their environments. Through hands-on design challenges and augmented reality exploration, learners investigate the relationship between organism, their traits, and the habitats they call home.

Grades: 3rd-5th
Content hours:12-20
NGSS and CCSS aligned

Class Subscription: 1 teacher login, 28 student logins
School Subscription: 10 teacher logins, 300 student logins

 

 

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With MindLabs Habitats & Adaptation unit, students step into the role of designers and scientists as they explore how organisms meet their needs in diverse environments. Using physical design materials paired with augmented reality simulations, learners adapt organisms, place them into different habitats, and observe how traits like body structure, camouflage, and behavior affect survival.

Rather than memorizing facts, students test ideas, make design choices, and iterate based on what they see. They might redesign an animal to better survive in a desert, adjust features to avoid predators, or experiment with how changes in environment impact success. Each challenge encourages curiosity, creative problem-solving, and evidence-based thinking.

The experience is intentionally open-ended, allowing educators to adapt it for classrooms, after-school programs, museums, or camps. MindLabs’ integrated digital notebook captures student thinking, design decisions, and reflections in real time, giving educators meaningful insight into how learners reason about systems, cause and effect, and adaptation over time.

Habitats & Adaptation supports NGSS-aligned learning while keeping setup simple and engagement high. It’s a joyful way for students to explore life science concepts while practicing the kind of thinking real scientists and engineers use every day.

What's included

Hardware:
Classroom set contains 7 card decks with access for 1 teacher and up to 28 students
School set contains 14 card decks with access for 10 teachers and up to 300 students

Software:
This product includes either a 1, 2, or 3-year license with access to the following:

LMS Platform that includes the following features:
Assign and manage student work
Create and save engineering design projects
Online Notebook for educator feedback and review
Synchronous class newsfeed
Collaborative class discussion and response
Visibility to student-entered self regulation and emotional control inputs
Visibility to student-entered collaboration feedback
Comment on student work
Professional Development Videos
Class Slides and Lesson Plans

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Resources

Product Specs

Subscription Required - 1, 2 or 3 year subscription required to unlock the curriculum and teacher resources.
Compatible Devices - Requires an iPad or tablet with internet access for the AR experiences.
Grade Level - Designed for 3rd to 5th grade
Standards Alignment - NGSS and CCSS
Classroom Setup - ideal for 1:1 or small group learning.

Download the FREE App in the App Store (iPad) or Google Play Store (phone or tablet).

Delta

Meet Delta, a fearless biologist with an unstoppable curiosity for how plants and animals survive and thrive in their environments. From rainforests to deserts, she studies the delicate balance of ecosystems, and what happens when that balance is broken.

But not everyone shares her respect for nature. Dr. Stonebreaker is determined to clear forests, drain wetlands, and reshape the world for his own gain. Delta knows that every action has consequences, and she’s using science to prove it.

In this Habitats and Adaptations unit, students join Delta’s mission to investigate how organisms meet their needs in different environments, and how changes to those environments affect survival. Through hands-on experiments, AR exploration, and evidence-based inquiry, students think and act like scientists as they uncover how living things adapt and depend on one another.

Each lesson builds observation, analysis, and critical-thinking skills while connecting science to real-world challenges. Teachers love how Delta’s story helps students see themselves as problem solvers, capable of using knowledge to protect the world around them.

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Collaboration & SEL Built In

Students share kudos, track emotions, and document learning, fostering teamwork and reflection.

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