Adaptations

NGSS 1-LS1.A - Disciplinary Core Ideas: Structure and Function

All organisms have external parts. Different animals use their body parts in different ways to see, hear, grasp objects, protect themselves, move from place to place, and seek, find, and take in food, water and air. Plants also have different parts (roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits) that help them survive and grow.

NGSS 1-LS1.A - Disciplinary Core Ideas: Information Processing

Animals have body parts that capture and convey different kinds of information needed for growth and survival. Animal responsd to these inputs with behaviors that help them survive.

Crosscutting Concepts: Structure and Function

The shape and stability of structures natural and designed objects are related to their function

NGSS 3-LS1 - Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

Science and Engineering Practices: Developing and using models Modeling in 3–5 builds on K–2 experiences and progresses to building and revising simple models and using models to represent events and design solutions.

LS1.B: Growth and Development of Organisms

Reproduction is essential to the continued existence of every kind of organism. Plants and animals have unique and diverse life cycles. (3-LS1-1)

NGSS 3-LS4 -2 - Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

Science and Engineering Practices: Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions Constructing explanations and designing solutions in 3–5 builds on K–2 experiences and progresses to the use of evidence in constructing explanations that specify variables that describe and predict phenomena and in designing multiple solutions to design problems.

NGSS 3-LS4 -3 - Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

Science and Engineering Practices: Analyzing and Interpreting Data Analyzing data in 3–5 builds on K–2 experiences and progresses to introducing quantitative approaches to collecting data and conducting multiple trials of qualitative observations. When possible and feasible, digital tools should be used.

NGSS 4-LS1 Construct an argument that plants, and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Science and Engineering Practices: Engaging in Argument from Evidence

Engaging in argument from evidence in 3–5 builds on K–2 experiences and progresses to critiquing the scientific explanations or solutions proposed by peers by citing relevant evidence about the natural and designed world(s).
Construct an argument with evidence, data, and/or a model.

Disciplinary Core Ideas: Structure and Function Plants and animals have both internal and external structures that serve various functions in growth, survival, behavior, and reproduction.

Crosscutting Concepts: Systems and System Models

A system can be described in terms of its components and their interactions.

NGSS 3-LS4 - 2.B - Disciplinary Core Ideas: Natural Selection Sometimes the differences in characteristics between individuals of the same species provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.

NGSS 3-LS4 - 2.C - Disciplinary Core Ideas: Adaptation For any particular environment, some kinds of organisms survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.