Elicit non-trivial dialogue from students. Guide students to reflection and analysis of the experience. Encourage students to share their perceptions and beliefs. Summarize and review similarities and differences.

Have the children listen to three scenarios:

Objective: To have the children examine the different ways living things cope.

Activity: Have the children listen to the following three scenarios:
1. A picnic is planned by your family, but it is raining buckets. You all decide to spread blankets on the screened in porch, play koosh ball, cook hot dogs on the barbeque, play a guessing game and award prizes.
2. A wood chuck is burrowing a new tunnel. He comes up under a big rock, he pushes and pushes, he cannot move it. He turns around and builds a new tunnel and goes around the rock
3. Climbing roses are growing along a fence. They hit the side of a brick wall and runs along the walk. The roses climb up and over the wall to the other side and keep going.
Ask what is happening in all three examples. Discuss

Assessment: Do the children see the coping mechanisms in each of the stories? Do they get the concept, that organisms learn to cope?