Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
Crosscutting Concepts
Structure and Function
Knowledge
Students know:
- How plants use their external parts to survive, grow and meet their needs.
- How animals use their external parts to survive, grow and meet their needs.
- People can imitate how plants and animals survive and grow to help us solve a human problem.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Design a device that attempts to solve a human problem.
- Use materials to imitate external structures of plants and animals.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- The shape and stability of structures of natural and designed objects are related to their function.
Vocabulary
- materials
- design
- solution
- human problem
- imitate
- external parts
- survive
- needs
- insulation
- mimicry
- camouflage
- protection
- ask
- plan
- imagine
- create
- improve
