Learning Goals Access Points Weekly Assignments Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will identify living things. Representation: Students will investigate what living things are composed of. Essential Question: What has cells? Identify that all living things are made of cells and cells function in similar ways (cell theory). Identify that the cell is the smallest basic unit of life and that all living things are made of cells. Match parts of common living things to their functions. Weekly Assignment 5: Compare living and non-living things to explain how living things are special (cells: animals, plants, and humans). Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will recognize plants and animals. Representation: Students will create a model of a cell. Essential Question: How are plant and animal cells different? Identify the major parts of plant and animal cells, including the cell membrane, nucleus, and cytoplasm, and their basic functions. Recognize that cells have different parts and each has a function. Match parts of common living things to their functions. Weekly Assignment 6: Create a model of a plant or animal cell, including their major parts and functions (including the cell membrane, nucleus, and cytoplasm). Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will recognize examples of cells. Representation: Students will explore how new cells are created. Essential Question: What is cell division? SC.912.L.16.In.7 Recognize that cells reproduce by dividing to produce new cells that are identical (mitosis) or new cells that are different (meiosis). SC.912.L.16.Su.6 Recognize that cells reproduce by dividing. SC.912.L.16.Pa.6 Recognize that living things produce offspring (reproduce). Weekly Assignment 7: Explain how new cells are created (cell division).
Learning Goals Access Points Weekly Assignments Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will identify examples of medicine. Representation: Students will explain how science can improve our lives. Essential Question: What new foods has science helped create? SC.912.L.16.In.5 Identify ways that biotechnology has impacted society and the environment, such as the development of new medicines and farming techniques. SC.912.L.16.Su.4 Recognize that new medicines and foods can be developed by science (biotechnology). SC.912.L.16.Pa.4 Recognize a food. Weekly Assignment 14: Investigate and report how science is used to develop new food and/or medicine (biotechnology). Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will recognize pictures of babies. Representation: Students will create a presentation showcasing human development. Essential Question: What did I look like when I were younger? Describe the basic process of human development from fertilization to birth. Recognize major phases in the process of human development from fertilization to birth. Recognize the sequence of human development from baby to child to adult. Weekly Assignments 15 & 16: Label the steps in the sequence of human development (baby, childhood, adult). Then, design & present a PowerPoint depicting your examples (using staff pictures). Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will identify examples of ecosystems. Representation: Students will explain how living things are affected by their environments. Essential Question: What is an example of a predator? Identify that living things in an ecosystem are affected by changes in the environment, such as changes to the food supply, climate change, or the introduction of predators. Recognize how animals and plants in an ecosystem may be affected by changes to the food supply or climate. Recognize what happens to plants and animals when they don’t get enough food or water. Weekly Assignments 17 & 18: Research different ecosystems, and create a presentation showing how the living things there can be affected by changes in the environment (disruption to food supply, weather, and introduction of predators).
Learning Goals Access Points Weekly Assignments Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will recognize that people need oxygen to live. Representation: Students will analyze how plants and animals can help each other. Essential Question: How do plants help me? SC.912.L.18.In.4 Recognize that plants give off oxygen that is used by animals and animals give off carbon dioxide that is used by plants. SC.912.L.18.Su.4 Recognize that people and animals breathe in the oxygen that plants give off. SC.912.L.18.Pa.2 Recognize that plants need water, light, and air to grow. Weekly Assignment 22: Create a diagram showing the mutually beneficial relationship between plants and animals in terms of respiration. Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will list sources of water. Representation: Students will explain how plants and animals use water. Essential Question: How much water do I drink every day? SC.912.L.18.In.7 Identify that special properties of water, such as the ability to moderate temperature and dissolve substances, help to sustain living things on Earth. SC.912.L.18.Su.6 Identify the important role of water in sustaining life of plants and animals. SC.912.L.18.Pa.5 Recognize that plants and animals use water to live Weekly Assignment 23: Investigate and report on the importance of water for plants and animals. Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will identify different plants. Representation: Students will compare the life cycles of different plants. Essential Question: How do plants change? Recognize ways that the appearance of humans, their language, and their tools have changed over time. Recognize that humans have changed in appearance over a very long period of time. Recognize that plants and animals change as they age. Weekly Assignments 24 & 25: Sequence and then compare the life cycles of different plants (fruits, vegetables, trees, grass, etc.).
Learning Goals Access Points Weekly Assignments Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will ask questions. Representation: Students will practice helping others who may be ill. Essential Question: How can I help my friends when they are sick? HE.912.B.4.In.d Explain the effectiveness of various ways of asking for and offering assistance to enhance the health of self and others, such as verbalizing, writing, listening actively, and seeking help for a friend. HE.912.B.4.Su.d Describe effective ways to ask for and offer assistance to enhance the health of self and others, such as verbalizing, writing, listening actively, and seeking help for a friend. HE.912.B.4.Pa.d Identify an effective way to ask for and offer assistance to enhance the health of self and others, such as verbalizing, listening actively, and seeking help for a friend. Weekly Assignment 30: Role-play a situation where you help a friend who has signs of an illness (stomachache, toothache, and headache) by asking questions, actively listening, communicating with an adult. Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will identify healthy foods. Representation: Students will describe ways to exercise. Essential Question: Why is an active, healthy lifestyle important? HE.912.B.5.In.2 Explain alternatives to health-related issues or problems, such as the health benefits of menu options, getting enough physical activity, and practicing refusal skills. HE.912.B.5.Su.2 Describe alternatives to health-related issues or problems, such as the health benefits of menu options, getting enough physical activity, and practicing refusal skills. HE.912.B.5.Pa.2 Recognize healthy and unhealthy alternatives to selected health-related issues or problems, such as the health benefits of menu options, getting enough physical activity, and practicing refusal skills. Weekly Assignments 31 & 32: Create a commercial to convince people to stay healthy through the practices of exercise and healthy eating.