Target Performances
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Lesson 6 – Explaining Other Examples of Animals Growing, Moving, and Functioning (students as explainers) |
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Activity 6.1: Explaining Other Examples of Animals Growing, Moving, and Functioning |
Students develop integrated accounts of how other animals (salmon, mealworms, dolphins) grow, move and function through the processes of digestion, cellular respiration, and biosynthesis. |
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Activity 6.2 Comparing Animals and Flames |
Students compare how matter moves and changes and how energy changes in ethanol burning vs. a child growing, moving and functioning (connecting macroscopic observations with atomic-molecular models and using the principles of conservation of matter and energy). |
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Activity 6.3: Functions of All Animals |
Students develop integrated accounts of how all animals grow, move and function through the processes of digestion, cellular respiration, and biosynthesis. |
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Activity 6.4: Animals Unit Posttest |
Students show their end-of unit proficiencies for the overall unit goal: Questioning, investigating, and explaining how animals move and change matter and energy as they live, move, and grow. |
NGSS Performance Expectations
Middle School
- MS. Matter and its Interactions. MS-PS1-1. Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures.
High School
- HS. From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes. HS-LS1-2. Develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions within multicellular organisms.
- HS. From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes. HS-LS1-6. Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for how carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen from sugar molecules may combine with other elements to form amino acids and/or other large carbon-based molecules.
- HS. From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes. HS-LS1-7. Use a model to illustrate that cellular respiration is a chemical process whereby the bonds of food molecules and oxygen molecules are broken and the bonds in new compounds are formed resulting in a net transfer of energy.