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MS-LS1-5 2014
MS-LS1-5: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of
organisms. [Clarification Statement: Examples of local environmental conditions could include availability of food, light, space, and
water. Examples of genetic factors could include large breed cattle and species of grass affecting growth of organisms. Examples of
evidence could include drought decreasing plant growth, fertilizer increasing plant growth, different varieties of plant seeds growing
at different rates in different conditions, and fish growing larger in large ponds than they do in small ponds.] [Assessment Boundary:
Assessment does not include genetic mechanisms, gene regulation, or biochemical processes.]
Essential Questions
What is growth of an organism?
What affects can an environment
or genetics have on growth?
Enduring Understandings
Students will understand that factors
either genetically or environmentally
affect growth. Humans have begun to
breed larger animals and plants using
genetic and environmental factors.
Common Core Standards
Connections
Describe the environmental
conditions or factors that may
lead to a change in a cell’s
genetic information or to an
organism’s development and
how these changes are passed on.
ELA/Literacy: RST.6-8.1 RST.6-8.2
RI.6.8 WHST.6-8.1 WHST.6-8.2
WHST.6-8.7 WHST.6-8.8 WHST.6-8.9
SL.8.5
21st Century Life and
Careers Standards
CPI #
9.3HL.1-.6
9.3ST.1-.6
Student Lab: Student will place plants in different environments: Inside,
outside, different amount of light, different amounts of water and compare
the growths of each plant. Students will then construct a table and cite textual
evidence to explain why these results were produced.
RAFT/Tiered Lessons:
Where can evidence of this be
seen during your everyday life?
Content Statements
Labs, Investigation, and Student Experiences
Mathematics: 6.EE.C.9 6.SP.A.2
6.SP.B.4
9.1.8.A.1
9.1.8.A.2
9.1.8.A.3
9.1.8.A.4
9.1.8.B.1 9.3.8.B.2
9.1.8.B.2 9.3.8.B.6
9.1.8.C.1 9.3.8.B.16
9.1.8.C.2
9.1.8.C.3
Modifications (ELLs, Special Education, Gifted and Talented)
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Differentiated instruction
Cooperative learning groups
Stations
Peer tutoring
Follow all IEP modifications/504 plan
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List environmental factors that contribute to an organism’s well-being
and development
Resources:
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Annenberg Media’s Teachers’ Resources offer short video courses
covering essential science content for K-6 teachers.
http://www.learner.org/resources/series179.html
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Pearson’s LabBench program offers an interactive site that allows
students to explore the content associated with this CPI.
MS-LS1-5 2014
9.1.8.E.1
Desired Results
Students will comprehend that the environment controls factors of life and
life has adapted in that environment to strive, survive and reproduce.
Human have begun to control animals and plants genetically not to fit the
environment but to fit our needs as a species.
To show evidence of meeting this CPI, students may answer the following
question:
1.
Widespread use of chemical pesticides has been linked to harmful
mutations in many wild frog populations. For a mutation to affect
the next generation of frogs, it must have altered the genetic code in
the frog’s:
1.
2.
3.
4.
skin cells
cardiac cells
muscle cells
reproductive cells
The process by which all the different kinds of living things have changed
over time:
1. evolution
2. parasitism
3. biotic factor
4. compound
Things such as predators, landscape features, and climate can all act to
create change in organisms through natural selection. What are these factors
called?
1. Mutations
2. Selection Factors
3. Limiting Factors
http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/lab7/intro.ht
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Text:
McGraw-Hill Science (Grade 6)
Jun 2002
by Daniel and Hackett
Glencoe Science, Level Green, Student Edition
Nov 19, 2001
by McGraw-Hill
Glencoe Science: Lvl Blue
Jan 2, 2005
by Alton Biggs
MS-LS1-5 2014
4.
Biotic factors
means that organisms with traits best suited to their environment
are more likely to survive and reproduce.
1. Evolution
2. Natural Selection
3. Big Bang
4. Unnatural Selection
http://www.helpteaching.com/questions/Evolution/Grade_7