Interdependent Relationships: Plants, Animals, and Their Environment
Unit description: Students explore what plants and animals need to live, grow and thrive. They learn how plants and animals depend on each other, and how humans can impact the environment they live in.
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Essential Questions and Big Ideas
What do plants and animals need to survive?
All animals need food, air, and water in order to live, grow, and thrive. Animals obtain food from plants or from other animals. Plants need water, air, and light to live, grow, and thrive. (K-LS1-1)
How do plants, animals and humans change the environment they live in?
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- Plants and animals can change their environment.(K-ESS2-2)
- Living things need water, air, and resources from the land, and they live in places that have the things they need. Humans use natural resources for everything they do. (K-ESS3-1)
How can we (humans) reduce the impact we have on living things and the environment?
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- Things that people do to live comfortably can affect the world around them. But they can make choices that reduce their impacts on the land, water, air, and other living things. (secondary to K-ESS2-2),(K-ESS3-3)
- Designs can be conveyed through sketches, drawings, or physical models. These representations are useful in communicating ideas for a problem’s solutions to other people. (secondary to K-ESS3-3)
Prerequisite Skills/Science & Engineering Practices:
Use observations to describe patterns, use evidence to support an argument, use models to show a relationship, communicate ideas for solutions to a problem.