Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Planning and Carrying out Investigations
Crosscutting Concepts
Systems and System Models
Knowledge
Students know:
- Different types of sense receptors detect specific types of information within the environment.
- Sense receptors send information about the surroundings to the brain.
- Information that is transmitted to the brain by sense receptors can be processed immediately as perceptions of the environment and/or stored as memories.
- Immediate perceptions or memories processed by the brain influences an animal's actions or responses to features in the environment.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify different ways animals receive, process, and respond to information.
- Identify evidence of different ways animals receive, process, and respond to information to be investigated.
- Plan ways to Investigate different ways animals receive, process, and respond to information.
- Collect and communicate data of different ways animals receive, process, and respond to information.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Sensory input, the brain, and behavioral output are all parts of a system that allows animals to engage in appropriate behaviors.
Vocabulary
- investigate
- evidence
- transmit
- perception
- receptors
- senses
- sensory information
- process
- memories
