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Overview
Students will interact closely
with some common land and water animals. Students
learn to care for animals over a period of time in
an appropriate classroom habitat. Later students will
be introduced to another animal that is similar to
the first but with differences in structure and behavior.
This process enhances opportunities for observation,
communication, and comparison.
Learning Expectations:
Understand that characteristics of living things help identify
and classify each appropriately
- Develop a growing curiosity and interest in the living world
around them.
- Observe and describe the structures of
a variety of common animals – fish, snails, earthworms,
isopods, and chicks.
- Compare structures and behaviors of different pairs of animals.
- Observe interactions of animals with their surroundings.
- Recognize characteristics of living things.
- Identify patterns.
- Recognize living things found in water.
- Develop awareness of size as an important attribute.
- Develop awareness of the five senses.
- Observe changes in systems.
- Communicate observations and comparisons.
- Acquire vocabulary associated with the structure and behavior
of animals.
- Handle animals carefully, and participate in the care and
feeding of classroom animals.
- Understand science safety and
follow safe practices during investigations
Assessments: - Lab Investigations
- Checklist
- Teacher created assessments
- Performance assessments
- Notebooks/Portfolios
- Unit projects
- Class work
- Teacher observations
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Animals
Two by Two
Full Option
Science System
Module
(FOSS)
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Content: Earth
Science
Develop students’ understanding of
the characteristics of organisms.
- All organisms have basic needs. Animals
need air, food, water, and space to live.
- Animals have different structures that serve different functions
in growth and survival.
- The behavior of an animal is influenced
by cues. Animals
have sense to detect cues and changes in their environment.
- Develop students’ understanding of
life cycles of organisms.
- Animals closely resemble their parents.
- Develop students’ beginning awareness
of organisms and the environment.
- Many animals eat plants.
- Animals react to the conditions of their environment.
- All animals,
including humans, change their environment. Some
changes are detrimental; some are beneficial
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Internet
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