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Standard - MST4: Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
Key Idea Code - MST4.LE:
Key Idea - MST4.LE4: The continuity of life is sustained through reproduction and development.
Academic Level - MST4.E.LE4:
Performance Indicator - MST4.E.LE4A: Students describe the major stages in the life cycles of selected plants and animals.
Major Understandings - 4.1a : Plants and animals have life cycles. These may include beginning of a life, development into an adult, reproduction as an adult, and eventually death.
Major Understandings - 4.1b : Each kind of plant goes through its own stages of growth and development that may include seed, young plant, and mature plant.
Major Understandings - 4.1c : The length of time from beginning of development to death of the plant is called its life span.
Major Understandings - 4.1d : Life cycles of some plants include changes from seed to mature plant.
Major Understandings - 4.1e : Each generation of animals goes through changes in form from young to adult. This completed sequence of changes in form is called a life cycle. Some insects change from egg to larva to pupa to adult.
Major Understandings - 4.1f : Each kind of animal goes through its own stages of growth and development during its life span.
Major Understandings - 4.1g : The length of time from an animal’s birth to its death is called its life span. Life spans of different animals vary.