Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
Crosscutting Concepts
Patterns
Knowledge
Students know:
- Resources obtained and used by living things.
- Organisms can be classified as living things based on the following: their ability to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce, and maintain stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment.
- The life cycles of different organisms can look different, but all follow a pattern.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Obtain information from a variety of resources to describe organisms that are classified as living things, rather than nonliving things.
- Combine information to describe that organisms are classified as living things, rather than nonliving things.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Patterns can be used when determining that organisms are living things.
Vocabulary
- Organisms
- Living things
- Nonliving things
- Growth
- Resources
- Reproduce
- Stable conditions
- Internal conditions
- External environment
