Core Content:
3.4.1 Students will explain the basic needs of organisms.
(food, water, shelter, air)
**Students will identify several organisms and their
environmental needs and assign them to appropriate
homes.
3.4.2 Students will understand that things in the environment
are classified as living, nonliving, and once living. Living
things differ from nonliving things.
**Students will classify vertebrates into the categories by
characteristics studied. Discuss how this helps them live
in their environments.
3.4.3 Students will compare the basic structures and functions
of plants and animals that contribute to growth,
reproduction, and survival.
**Describe plant and animal characteristics and make
inferences about how they are adapted to their habitats.
**Investigate animal structures that aid in its survival
(claws, poison, camouflage)
3.4.4 Students will compare a variety of plant and animal life
cycles to understand patterns of the growth, development,
reproduction, and death of an organism.
**Frog life cycle as part of pond study. Compare to other
life cycles. Sequence life cycle of the frog. (tree---forest)
4.6.1 Students will describe basic relationships of plants and
animals in an ecosystem.
**Food chain- ocean Use terms predator, prey
**Discuss photosynthesis and how the food chain begins
with the sun and the plant making food.
4.7.1 Students will describe the cause and effect relationships
existing between organisms and their environments.
**Identify the characteristics of each ecosystem.
**food chain, pictures of each environment
**structures and functions of animals