Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
Crosscutting Concepts
Patterns
Knowledge
Students know:
- Young animals are very much, but not exactly, like their parents.
- Plants are very much, but not exactly, like their parents.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Use observations as evidence to identify similarities and differences between parents and offspring and between offspring and other members of the same species.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Patterns can be used as evidence that individuals of the same kind of plant or animal are recognizable as similar but can also vary in many ways.
Vocabulary
- identify
- observation
- similarities
- differences
- offspring
- parents
- members
- species
- evidence
- pattern
