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COMMON FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT PLANNING TEMPLATE
--FIRST DRAFT-Grade Level or Course: 4th Grade Science
Authors: Ken Martinelli
Assessment Topic:
Animal & Plant Adaptations
Selected Power Standards: List standards by number and include the full text
here. Then “unwrap” to identify what students need to know and be able to do.
Underline the concepts (important nouns or noun phrases) and circle the skills
(verbs).
B3: Describe how different plants and animals are adapted to obtain air,
water, food and protection in specific land habitats.
B4: Describe how different plants and animals are adapted to obtain air,
water, food and protection in water habitats.
BINQ2: Seek relevant information in books, magazines and electronic
media.
GLEs:
1. Compare and contrast the external features and behaviors that
enable different animals and plants (including those that are extinct)
to get food, water and sunlight; find mates; and be protected in
specific land and water habitats.
2. Explain how behaviors such as hibernation, dormancy and migration
give species advantages for surviving unfavorable environmental
conditions.
3. Give examples of ways animals benefit from camouflage.
4. Evaluate whether an adaptation gives a plant or animal a survival
advantage in a given environment.
5. Design a model of an organism whose adaptations give it an
advantage in a specific environment.
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Graphic Organizer of “Unwrapped” Concepts and Skills
Concepts: Need to Know about Plant/Animal Adaptations
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Adaptation – Behavioral, Structural
Advantage
Camouflage
Hibernation
Migration
Predators
Leaves
Drought
Skills: Be able to do
(Next to each skill, write number in parentheses indicating approximate level of
Bloom’s Taxonomy of thinking skills. Refer to Bloom’s Taxonomy resource in
supporting documents.)
Describe (2)
Seek (1)
Big Ideas from “Unwrapped” Power Standards
1. Animals have adaptations for getting food such as specialized teeth,
beaks, claws, smell and tongues. Behavioral adaptations include
following herds, spinning webs or stalking.
2. Protection for animals and plants include camouflage, sharp quills, hard
shells, antlers, spines, thorns and toxins.
3. Plants have adaptations for surviving in different environmental conditions
including dropping leaves, needle-shaped leaves or storing water in thick
stems.
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Essential Questions Matched to Big Ideas
1. What are some adaptations animals have that help them get food?
2. What are some ways animals and plants protect themselves?
3. How do plants adapt to their environment?
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