Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Developing and Using Models
Crosscutting Concepts
Systems and System Models
Knowledge
Students know:
- Needs of plants and animals native to Alabama.
- How to construct a model of a natural habitat and can identify and describe the components of the model
- Places where the different plants and animals live.
- The relationship between where plants and animals live and the resources those places provide
Skills
Students are able to:
- Construct a model of interactions that occur in a natural habitat.
- Use a model to represent and describe the relationships between the components.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Systems in the natural environments of Alabama have parts that work together and can be represented.
Vocabulary
- Construct
- Model
- Natural
- Habitat
- Conducive
- Needs
- Plants
- Animals
- Native
- Alabama
