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Prehistoric Planet

10 episodes

Ten roughly 40-minute episodes that treat the last dinosaurs like living wildlife, filmed as a nature documentary rather than a monster movie. Each one takes a single habitat (coasts, deserts, forests, freshwater, ice worlds, islands, oceans, swamps, badlands, and a closing tour of late-Cretaceous North America) and follows the animals that made a living there: a Tyrannosaurus swimming his young out to an island, Pachyrhinosaurus herds crossing polar snow, dwarf dinosaurs shrinking to fit small worlds. Because the framing is habitat, behavior, and structure-and-function rather than trivia, it lands squarely on ecosystems, group survival, and how body parts fit an animal's life. Plan a full period.

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What Prehistoric Planet covers

10 episodes in the library, tagged for 3rd–6th. Heaviest coverage: Science. Between them they line up with 6 distinct standards across 1 framework.

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3rd: 10
4th: 10
5th: 10
6th: 10

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Science: 10

NGSS (Science) 6

3-LS4-1Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.
3-LS4-3Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
3-LS2-1Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
5-LS2-1Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
4-LS1-1Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
4-LS1-2Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.

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