SC15.3.6
Create representations to explain the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans (e.g., flowering plants, frogs, butterflies), including commonalities such as birth, growth, reproduction, and death
Create representations to explain the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans (e.g., flowering plants, frogs, butterflies), including commonalities such as birth, growth, reproduction, and death
Unpacked Content
UP:SC15.3.6
Vocabulary
- Create
- Explain
- Representations
- Unique
- Diverse
- Commonalities
- Life cycles
- Organisms
- Birth
- Growth
- Reproduction
- Death
Knowledge
Students know:
- Organisms are born, grow, reproduce and die in a pattern known as a life cycle.
- Organisms have unique and diverse life cycles.
- An organism can be classified as either a plant or an animal.
- There is a causal direction of the cycle (e.g., without birth, there is no growth; without reproduction, there are no births).
Skills
Students are able to:
- Create representations to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
- Explain the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans.
- Explain commonalities of organisms such as birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Patterns of change can be used to make predictions about the unique life cycles of organisms.
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Developing and Using Models
Crosscutting Concepts
Patterns
