The following essential understandings and guiding questions are to be combined with the specific topics, or units, listed below to create a focus for the topic of study.

Essential Understandings
1. Adaptation is necessary for survival.
2. Adaptations are interrelated to the environment in which a being lives.
3. Adaptations influence others and/or change their surroundings.
4. Adaptations can be found anywhere.

Guiding Questions
1. How is adaptation necessary for survival?
2. In what ways are beings interralated to the environment in which they live?
3. How do adaptations influence others and/or change their surroundings?
4. Why can you find adaptations anywhere?

Units