To live and grow, plants need light, water and nutrients from the soil. Flowering plants must be pollinated in order to produce seeds. Many plants are pollinated by bees. A flower's pollen sticks to a bee, but some rubs off when the bee feeds at other flowers. Students understand the process of scientific investigation and design, conduct, communicate about, and evaluate such investigations.
Students know and understand common properties, forms, and changes in matter and energy.
Students know and understand the characteristics and structure of living things, the process of life, and how living things interact with each other and their environment. Students understand that science involves a particular way of knowing and understand common connections among scientific disciplines. In the Plant Growth and Development kit, assessment is an ongoing, integral part of instruction. Embedded assessments are woven into the unit and provide an ongoing profile of student progress and thinking. Specific guidelines for a variety of assessments are found within the lessons.