New York State Learning Standards: Elementary Science


http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/mst/pub/mststa4.pdf


All under Standard 4: Living Environment

Learning Target 1: Students will be able to identify the parts of a plant.

Key Idea 2: Recognize that traits of living things are both inherited and acquired or learned.

2.2a Plants and animals closely resemble their parents and other individuals in their species.

Learning Target 2: Students will be able to distinguish the job of each plant part.

Key Idea 3: Individual organisms and species change over time.

3.1b Each plant has different structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction.

Learning Target 3: Students will determine what characteristics make plants living things.

Key Idea 1: Living things are both similar and different from each other and from nonliving things.

1.1 Describe the characteristics of and variations between living and nonliving things.

Learning Target 4: Students will be able to use background knowledge about themselves to understand the needs of living things.

Key Idea 5: Organisms maintain a dynamic equilibrium that sustains life.

5.1a: All living things grow, take in nutrients, breathe, reproduce, and eliminate waste.

Learning Target 5: Students will be able to describe what will happen if a living plant is deprived of its needs.

Key Idea 5: Organisms maintain a dynamic equilibrium that sustain life.

5.2g The health, growth, development of organisms are affected by environmental conditions such as the availability of food, air, water, space, shelter, heat, and sunlight.

Learning Target 6: Students will be able to display a plant’s life cycle.

Key Idea 4: The continuity of life is sustained through reproduction and development.

4.1a Plants and animals have life cycles. they include beginning of a life, development into an adult, and eventually death.

Learning Target 7: Students will be able to successfully grow a plant providing its common needs.

The successful growth of the plant would depend on all the knowledge learned during the unit.

Key Idea 7: Human decisions and activities have had a profound impact on the physical and living environments.

7.1c Humans, as individuals or communities, change environments in ways that can be either helpful or harmful for themselves and other organisms.

(If students decide not to provide a plants needs in the classroom, there will be a profound impact on the plant)