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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science

Section:

The student is expected to:

(a) Introduction

4. (D) In life science, students recognize the interdependence of organisms in the natural world. They understand that all organisms have basic needs that can be satisfied through interactions with living and nonliving things. Students will investigate life cycles of animals and identify likenesses between parents and offspring.

Food Web; refer to animal Organism screens

Dependency Web; refer to animal Organism screens

Build-A-

Desert; refer to animal Organism screens

Ecology section: Life Cycle

(b) Knowledge and skills

2. (A) ask questions about organisms, objects, and events observed in the natural world;

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

2. (B) plan and conduct simple descriptive investigations such as ways objects move;

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

2. (C) collect data and make observations using simple equipment such as hand lenses, primary balances, and non-standard measurement tools;

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

CD and Workbook

9. (A) sort and classify living and nonliving things based upon whether or not they have basic needs and produce offspring;

Build-A-

Desert

9. (B) analyze and record examples of interdependence found in various situations such as terrariums and aquariums or pet and caregiver; and

Web Game

Dependency Web

Build-A-

Desert

9. (C) gather evidence of interdependence among living organisms such as energy transfer through food chains and animals using plants for shelter.

Web Game; Adaptations

Study section: Dependency Web

Build-A-

Desert

10.  (A) investigate how the external characteristics of an animal are related to where it lives, how it moves, and what it eats;

Adaptations

Study: Plants, Dependency Web, Animals

Study: Build-A-Desert, Adaptations

Ecology section; Anatomy

10. (B) identify and compare the parts of plants;

Adaptations: Plants; refer to Organism screens

Study: Plant screens; refer to Organism screens

Adaptations / Plants; refer to Organism screens

10. (C) compare ways that young animals resemble their parents; and

Refer to Organism screens

Refer to Organism screens

Refer to Organism screens

Ecology: Life Cycle

10. (D) observe and record life cycles of animals such as a chicken, frog, or fish.

Ecology: Life Cycle