Organisms have basic needs.
For example, animals need air, water, and food; plants
require air, water, nutrients, and light. Organisms can survive only in environments
in which their needs can be met. The world has many different environments, and
distinct environments support the life of different types of organisms.
Introduce New Topic
Tell students that animals need food and water
in order to survive. Use the following questions
to facilitate a discussion about what animals eat:
Why do you eat?
Why do you think animals need to eat?
What kinds of foods do you eat?
What kinds of things do animals eat?
How do you get food?
How do you think animals get their food?
Vocabulary
Critically Important-State Assessable
Instructionally Useful
living things
space
basic needs
sunlight
nonliving things
once living
air
dead
water
organisms
food
plants
animals
survive
Big Ideas (Key Concepts)
All living things have basic needs (air, water, food and space).
Nonliving things do not have these basic needs.
Standard: Organization of Living Things
Content Statement
Life Requirements- Organisms have basic needs. Animals and plants need
air, water, food and space. Plants also require light. Plants and animals
use food as a source of energy and as a source of building material for
growth and repair.
Content Expectation
Recognize that living things have basic needs.
Instructional Clarifications:
1. Recognize is to identify as by previous experience or perceive as truth that living
things have basic needs.
2. The needs of living things is limited to air, water, food and space to survive.
3. Living things include plants and animals.
4. Plants require air, water and sunlight to make their own food.
Assessment Clarifications
1. Living things need air, water, food and space to survive.
2. Living things include plants and animals.
Identify and compare living and nonliving things.
Instructional Clarifications
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Identify means recognize the differences between living and nonliving things.
Students identify living things as plants and animals.
Living things need air, water, and food to survive.
Nonliving things do not take in water, food or need air.
Nonliving things include things that once lived and things that never lived (logs
versus rocks).
Assessment Clarifications
1. Students identify living things as plants and animals.
2. Living things need air, water, and food to survive.
3. Nonliving things do not take in water, food or need air.
Inquiry Process, Inquiry Analysis and Communication, Reflection and
social Implications
Inquiry Processes
1 Make purposeful observation of the natural world using the appropriate
senses.
2 Generate questions based on observations using the senses.
3 Plan and conduct simple investigations using the senses.
4 Manipulate simple tools (hand lens, balances) that aid observation and data
collection.
5 Construct simple charts from data and observations.
Inquiry Analysis and Communication
1 Share ideas about the senses through purposeful conversation.
2 Communicate and present findings of observations.
3 Develop strategies for information gathering (ask an expert, use a book,
make observations, conduct simple investigations, and watch a video).
Reflection and Social Implications
1 Demonstrate science concepts about the senses through illustrations,
performances, models, exhibits, and activities.