Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Engaging in Argument from Evidence
Crosscutting Concepts
Cause and Effect
Knowledge
Students know:
- Plants and animals meet their needs.
- Plants change their environment to meet their needs.
- Animals change their environment to meet their needs.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Gather data (evidence) to support a claim that plants and animals alter the environment when meeting their needs.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Systems in the natural and designed world have parts that work together like the plants and animals within their environments.
Vocabulary
- Gather
- Evidence
- Support
- Plant
- Animal
- Provide
- Needs
- Alter
- Environment
- Claim
