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How Do Living Things Stay Safe and Grow?1-LS1-1 • 1-LS1-2 • 1-LS3-1 • K-2-ETS1-1

In this module students explore similarities and differences between young and adult plants and animals and how behavior and external parts help living things survive. Students begin by completing a card sort activity in which they use patterns of similarities and differences among living things as evidence for their sorting. Next, students observe plants and animals to determine the patterns of similarities and differences between young and adult individuals within a species. Their evidence supports the idea that young and adult plants and animals are similar but not exactly alike. Then students engage in argument from evidence about the similarities and differences

among different species of animals. Students construct an explanation about how to tell apart species of animals. Next, students obtain information about how animal behavior helps offspring survive. They apply this information in a digital simulation of parents and offspring. Students read about how the structure of external parts of plants and animals helps living things survive. They design a device that mimics the structure of a plant or animal in order to solve a simple problem. In the end-of-module science challenge, students play a card game in which they act as plants and animals trying to survive various scenarios. They communicate their choices from the game in a comic strip format.

Concepts and Practices Storyline

Lesson 1: What Am I?Living things can be categorized using patterns of similarities and differences.

Students analyze and interpret data about the patterns of similarities and differences among living things to construct an explanation for a card sort.

Lesson 2: Like Parent, Like OffspringYoung and adult plants look very similar but are not exactly the same.

Students carry out an investigation to determine the patterns of similarities and differences between young and adult plants.

Lesson 3: Cubs and ChicksYoung and adult animals look very similar but are not exactly the same.

Students carry out an investigation to determine the patterns of similarities and differences between young and adult animals.

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Lesson 9: Survive, Behave, and Save! Part 1Animal behavior and external body parts help plants and animals survive.

Students engage in argument from evidence and construct an explanation of how patterns of behavior and the structure and function of plants and animals can help living things survive.

Lesson 10: Survive, Behave, and Save! Part 2Animal behavior and external body parts help plants and animals survive.

Students communicate how patterns of behavior and the structure and function of plants and animals can help living things survive.

9Lesson 4: One of These Things Is Not Like the OtherIndividuals within a species have variation but are recognizable as that species.

Students analyze and interpret data and engage in argument from evidence about the patterns of similarities and differences within and among species.

Lesson 5: Staying AliveParents and offspring behave in ways that help offspring survive.

Students obtain and communicate information about how patterns of behavior help offspring survive.

Lesson 6: Penguin ProtectionAnimal behavior has predictable effects.

Students obtain information from a digital simulation about patterns of penguin behavior.

Lesson 7: Use What You’ve GotExternal body parts of plants and animals help them survive.

Students obtain and communicate information about how the structure and function of external parts helps plants and animals survive.

Lesson 8: Mimic and MakePeople can design solutions that mimic plants and animals to solve problems.

Students define problems and then design solutions that mimic the structure and function of plants and animals.

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Science Challenge

Each lesson is identified by a color.

Grade 1 Life Science: How Do Living Things Stay Safe and Grow? Kit Materials List

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Reusable Items

Smithsonian Science Stories Literacy Series™: Survival Stories On-Grade Reader, Pack of 8 2 Bottle, Plant Mister 1 Card Set, Animal Sorting, Pack of 16 1 Card Set, Banana Plants, Pack of 8 1 Card Set, Survival Game, Pack of 16 1 Card Set, What Am I?, Pack of 8 1 Card Set, Young and Adult Animals, Pack of 8 1 Card, Young and Adult Dama Gazelles 1 Container Lid, Plastic, 16/24 oz, Pack of 8 1 Container, Plastic, 16 oz, Pack of 25 1 Container, Storage, Large, Blue 1 Cup, Culture, Pack of 20 1 Model Set, Assorted Claw/Talon 1 Photo Card Set, Vocabulary 1 Sprayer, Plant Mister 1

Consumable Items Air Line Tubing, with Markings, 25 ft 1 Chipboard, Fine, 8-1/2 x 11 in, Pack of 10 Sheets 1 Cleaner, Pipe, White, 30 cm (12 in), Pack of 100 1 Cotton Ball, Pack of 300 1 Cotton Wick, 4 x 3/8 in, Pack of 16 1 Feathers, Marabou, 4 to 5 in, Pack 1 Felt, Kelly Green, 9 x 12 in, Pk 8 1 Fertilizer, Osmocote® 14, 1 oz 2 Fur, Craft Sheet, 9 x 12 in 4 Note Pad, Self-Adhesive, 3 x 5 in 2 Paper, Waxed, 75-ft Roll 1 Potting Mix, 2-L Bag 2 Toothpick, Round, Box of 250 1 Tray, Foam, 7-1/2 x 9-1/2 in, Pack of 20 1 Wisconsin Fast Plants® Standard Seed (Improved Basic, Rbr), Pack of 501 1

Figure 1 Materials for design solution

Figure 2 Students completing their design solution