Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
Unit description: Students examine how animals and plants depend on each other for survival. They explore areas where plants and animals live on land and in water, and how each area is made up of many different kinds of living things.
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Essential Questions and Big Ideas
How do plants and animals depend on each other to survive?
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- Animals depend on plants or other animals for food. (2-LS2-2)
- Designs can be conveyed through sketches, drawings, or physical models. These representations are useful in communicating ideas to other people (secondary to 2-LS2-2)
- Plants depend on water, light and air to grow. (2-LS2-1)
- Some plants depend on animals for pollination and for dispersal of seeds from one location to another. (2-LS2-2)
- There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land and in water. (2-LS4-1)
Prerequisite Skills/Science & Engineering Practices
Plan and conduct an investigation to make a determination, develop a model to illustrate a concept, make observations to compare.