Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.B.1.1.1
Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.B.1.1.1
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- Define digestion.
- Define respiration.
- Name three organisms that carry out respiration.
- Compare and contrast the ways that animals get food and water and the ways plants get food and water.
- Summarize the process of respiration.
- How is respiration related to digestion?
Answer Key/Rubric
- Digestion is the process of breaking down food into tiny particles for cells to use for energy.
- Respiration is when an animal breathes in oxygen and breathes out carbon dioxide.
- Animals carry out respiration. Examples include but are not limited to dogs, cats, elephants, bears, fish, people, giraffes, horses, lions
- Similarities include, but are not limited to:
- Both get food and water from their environment.
- Both move nutrients and water throughout their systems to survive.
Differences include, but are not limited to:
- Plants absorb nutrients and water through their roots. Animals drink water through their mouths.
- Plants make their own food. Animals must eat food from other sources.
- Acceptable responses might include, but are not limited to:
- Air is breathed in
- Oxygen is removed from the air in the lungs
- Oxygen enters the blood through the blood vessels in the lungs
- Oxygen is transported through the blood to the body
- Waste, such as carbon dioxide, is exhaled by the lungs
- Acceptable responses might include, but are not limited to:
- Respiration and digestion are both needed for the survival of an animal
- Respiration provides oxygen
- Digestion provides water and nutrients
- These processes are connected through the blood stream
- Oxygen enters the blood stream through blood vessels in the lungs. Nutrients and water enter the blood stream through blood vessels in the digestive system.
- Oxygen, nutrients, and water are all transported throughout the body through the blood in blood vessels.
- Oxygen, nutrients, and water are needed to support an animal.
