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Second Trimester - December 12 - March 24
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Plants and Animals and How They use their External parts to Survive, Grow, and meet their Needs
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S.1.LS.1.1 |
Students who demonstrate understanding can use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. |
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1. How do plants and animals adapt to their environment?
2. How can nature inspire solutions to human problems?
3. How can a step by step process help you design or improve a solution to a problem?
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Structure and Function
Use materials to design of a device that solves a specific problem or solution to a problem.
- Human problems can be solved by mimicking plant or animal solutions could include designing clothing or equipment to protect bicyclists by mimicking turtle shells, acorn shells, and animal scales; stabilizing structures by mimicking animal tails and roots on plants; keeping out intruders by mimicking thorns on branches and animal quills; and, detecting intruders by mimicking eyes and ears
Grown and Development of Organisims
- Adult plants and animals can have young. In many kinds of animals, parents and the offsring engage in behaviors that help the offspring survive.
Information Processing
- Animals have body parts that capture and convey different kinds of information nedded for growth and survival. Animals respond to these inputs with behaviors that help them survive. Plants also respond to external inputs.
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- Mimic
- Survive
- Offspring
- Observation
- Living and nonliving
- Habitat
- Environment
- Adaptation
- Organism
- Camouflage
- Protection
- Locomotion
- Food Adaptation
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- Make observations (firsthand or from media) to develop an evidence-based account for natural phenomena
- Use materials to design a device that solves specific problems or a solution to a specific problem
- Build on prior experiences
- Planning and carrying out investigations to answer questions and test solutions
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- PLTW Online Resources
- PLTW Hands-On Manipulatives
- Mystery Science
- Science Spin
- Schoalstic News
- BrainPop
- Common Core Listening Domain
Plants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rJdVQNy6TY
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Student Observation and participation
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Second Trimester - December 12 - March 24
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Structure, Function, and Information Processing
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S.1.LS.1.2 |
Students who demonstrate understanding can read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive. |
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1. What are some ways plants and animals meet their needs so that they can survive and grow?
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Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
- Read grade-appropiate texts and use media to obtain scientific information to detemine patterns in the natural world.
- Scientists look for patterns and order when making observations about the world.
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- Patterns
- Offspring
- Observation
- Survival
- Parts of a plant (stem, root, flower, seed)
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- Make observations (firsthand or from media) to develop an evidence-based account for natural phenomena
- Use materials to design a device that solves specific problems or a solution to a specific problem
- Build on prior experiences
- Planning and carrying out investigations to answer questions and test solutions
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Schoalstic News
BrainPop
Common Core Listening Domain
Additional Resources
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Student Observation and participation
Rubric
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Second Trimester - December 12 - March 24
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Structure, Function, and Information Processing
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S.P.LS.3.1 |
Students who demonstrate understanding can develop a model to describe that some young plants and animals are similar to, but not exactly like, their parents. |
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How are young plants and adult plants simliar? How are they different?
Compare and contrast young and adult animals.
Describe the process of metamorphosis for certain plants and animals.
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Inheritance of Traits
- Some young animals are similar to, but not exactly, like their parents. Some young plants are also similar to but not exactly like their parents.
Variation of Traits
- Individuals of the same kind of plant or animal are recognizable as similiar but also vary in many ways.
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- Adaptations
- Metamorphosis
- Traits
- Observation
- Plant structure
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- Make observations (firsthand or from media) to develop an evidence-based account for natural phenomena
- Build on prior experiences
- Planning and carrying out investigations to answer questions and test solutions
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Schoalstic News
BrainPop
Common Core Listening Domain
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Student Observation and participation
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