Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Developing and Using Models
Crosscutting Concepts
Patterns
Knowledge
Students know:
- Organisms are born, grow, reproduce and die in a pattern known as a life cycle.
- Organisms have unique and diverse life cycles.
- An organism can be classified as either a plant or an animal.
- There is a causal direction of the cycle (e.g., without birth, there is no growth; without reproduction, there are no births).
Skills
Students are able to:
- Create representations to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
- Explain the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans.
- Explain commonalities of organisms such as birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Patterns of change can be used to make predictions about the unique life cycles of organisms.
Vocabulary
- Create
- Explain
- Representations
- Unique
- Diverse
- Commonalities
- Life cycles
- Organisms
- Birth
- Growth
- Reproduction
- Death
