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Subject Area - 3:
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
  • Standard Area - 3.1: Biological Sciences
  • Organizing Category - 3.1.A: Organisms and Cells
  • Grade Level - 3.1.4.A: GRADE 4
Standard - 3.1.4.A8

MODELS

Construct and interpret models and diagrams of various animal and plant life cycles.

  • Assessment Anchor - S4.A.2

    Processes, Procedures, and Tools of Scientific Investigations

    • Anchor Descriptor - S4.A.2.2 Identify appropriate instruments for a specific task and describe the information the instrument can provide.
      • Eligible Content - S4.A.2.2.1 Identify appropriate tools or instruments for specific tasks and describe the information they can provide (e.g., measuring: length - ruler, mass - balance scale, volume - beaker, temperature - thermometer; making observations: hand lens, binoculars, telescope).
  • Assessment Anchor - S4.B.1

    Structure and Function of Organisms

    • Anchor Descriptor - S4.B.1.1 Identify and describe similarities and differences between living things and their life processes.
      • Eligible Content - S4.B.1.1.4 Describe how different parts of a living thing work together to provide what the organism needs (e.g., parts of plants: roots, stems, leaves).
      • Eligible Content - S4.B.1.1.5 Describe the life cycles of different organisms (e.g., moth, grasshopper, frog, seed-producing plant).
  • Assessment Anchor - S4.B.2

    Continuity of Life

    • Anchor Descriptor - S4.B.2.1 Identify and explain how adaptations help organisms to survive.
      • Eligible Content - S4.B.2.1.1 Identify characteristics for plant and animal survival in different environments (e.g., wetland, tundra, desert, prairie, deep ocean, forest).
    • Anchor Descriptor - S4.B.2.2 Identify that characteristics are inherited and, thus, offspring closely resemble their parents.
      • Eligible Content - S4.B.2.2.1 Identify physical characteristics (e.g., height, hair color, eye color, attached earlobes, ability to roll tongue) that appear in both parents and could be passed on to offspring.
  • Assessment Anchor - S4.B.3

    Ecological Behavior and Systems

    • Anchor Descriptor - S4.B.3.1 Identify and describe living and nonliving things in the environment and their interaction.
      • Eligible Content - S4.B.3.1.1 Describe the living and nonliving components of a local ecosystem (e.g., lentic and lotic systems, forest, cornfield, grasslands, city park, playground).
    • Anchor Descriptor - S4.B.3.2 Describe, explain, and predict change in natural or human-made systems and the possible effects of those changes on the environment.
      • Eligible Content - S4.B.3.2.1 Describe what happens to a living thing when its habitat is changed.
      • Eligible Content - S4.B.3.2.2 Describe and predict how changes in the environment (e.g., fire, pollution, flood, building dams) can affect systems.
      • Eligible Content - S4.B.3.2.3 Explain and predict how changes in seasons affect plants, animals, or daily human life (e.g., food availability, shelter, mobility).
  • Assessment Anchor - S4.D.2

    Weather, Climate, and Atmospheric Processes

    • Anchor Descriptor - S4.D.2.1 Identify basic weather conditions and how they are measured.
      • Eligible Content - S4.D.2.1.1 Identify basic cloud types (i.e., cirrus, cumulus, stratus, and cumulonimbus) and make connections to basic elements of weather (e.g., changes in temperature, precipitation).
      • Eligible Content - S4.D.2.1.2 Identify weather patterns from data charts or graphs of the data (e.g., temperature, wind direction, wind speed, cloud types, precipitation).
      • Eligible Content - S4.D.2.1.3 Identify appropriate instruments (i.e., thermometer, rain gauge, weather vane, anemometer, and barometer) to study weather and what they measure.
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