Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Engaging in Argument from Evidence
Crosscutting Concepts
Cause and Effect
Knowledge
Students know:
- Characteristics result from individuals' interactions with the environment, which can range from diet to learning. Many characteristics involve both inheritance and environment.
- The environment also affects the traits that an organism develops.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Support explanations about environmental influences on inherited traits in organisms.
- Use evidence to support an explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Cause and effect relationships are routinely identified and used to explain change such as the possibility that environmental factors may influence an organism's traits.
Vocabulary
- Engage
- Argument
- Evidence
- Justify
- Traits
- Influenced
- Environment
- Cause
- Effect
- Claim
