Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Engage in Argument from Evidence
Crosscutting Concepts
Systems and System Models; Structure and Function
Knowledge
Students know:
- Internal and External structures serve specific functions within plants and animals.
- The functions of internal and external structures can support survival, growth, behavior and/or reproduction in plants and animals.
- Different structures work together as part of a system to support survival, growth, behavior, and/or reproduction.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Articulate an explanation from evidence explaining how the internal and external structures of plants and animals function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
- Determine the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence collected, including whether or not it supports a claim about the role of internal and external structures of plants and animals in supporting survival, growth, behavior, and/or reproduction.
- Use reasoning to connect the relevant and appropriate evidence to support an argument about the function of the internal and external structures of plants and animals.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Plants and animals have both internal and external structures that serve various functions in growth, survival, behavior, and reproduction.
Vocabulary
- argue
- articulate
- evidence
- internal
- external
- structure
- survival
- function
- behavior
- reproduction
