Animals Lesson 1: Learning Goals

Target Performances

Lesson 1 – Pretest and Expressing Ideas (students as questioners)

Activity 1.1: Animals Unit Pretest

Students show their initial proficiencies for the overall unit goal: Questioning, investigating, and explaining how animals move and change matter and energy as they live, move, and grow.

Activity 1.2: Expressing Ideas about How Animals Grow

Students ask and record specific questions about changes in matter and energy in response to the unit driving question: What happens when ethanol burns?

NGSS Performance Expectations

This lesson helps students start thinking about all of the unit NGSS Performance Expectations but does not feature a mastery of any of them.