• K-2.E-2 Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate and investigate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve an identified problem.

• K-2.E-3 Analyze data from the investigation of two objects constructed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.

• K.LS.2 Describe and compare the physical features of common living plants and animals.

• K.LS.3 Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals need to survive.

• 1.LS.1 Develop representations to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

• 1.LS.2 Develop a model mimicking how plants and /or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. Explore how those external parts could solve a human problem.

• 1.LS.3 Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.

• 1.LS.4 Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.

• 2.LS.1 Determine patterns and behavior (adaptations) of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.

• 2.LS.2 Compare and contrast details of body plans and structures within the life cycles of plants and animals.

• 2.LS.3 Classify living organisms according to variations in specific physical features (i.e. body coverings, appendages) and describe how those features may provide an advantage fur survival in different environments.

• 3.LS.1 Analyze the evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.

• 3.LS.4 Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.

• 4.LS.1 Observe, analyze, and interpret how offspring are very much, but not exactly, like their parents or one another. Describe how these differences in physical characteristics among individuals in a population may be advantageous for survival and reproduction.

• 4.LS.2 Use evidence to support the explanation that a change in the environment may result in a plant of animal will survive and reproduce, move to a new location, or die.

• 4.LS.3 Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction in different ecosystems.

• 5.LS.3 Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.

• 6.LS.1 Investigate and describe how homeostasis is maintained as living things seek out their basic needs of food, water, shelter, space, and air.

• 6.LS.2 Describe the role of photosynthesis in the flow of energy in food chains, energy pyramids, and food webs. Create a diagram to show how the energy in animals’ food used for bodily processes was once energy from the sun.

• 6.LS.2 Describe specific relationships (predator/prey, producer/consumer, parasite/host) and symbiotic relationships between organisms. Construct an explanation that predicts why patterns of interactions develop between organisms in an ecosystem.

• 8.LS.7 Recognize organisms are classified into taxonomic levels according to shared characteristics. Explain how an organism’s scientific name correlates to these shared characteristics.

• 8.LS.8 Explore and predict the evolutionary relationships between species looking at the anatomical differences among modern organisms and fossil organisms.

• 8.LS.9 Examine traits of individuals within a species that may give them an advantage or disadvantage to survive and reproduce in a stable or changing environment.

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