Upper Elementary
Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.
Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.
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.
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.
Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.