Description
Grade 1. In 5 lessons spanning 14 class sessions, the Building Blocks of Science® 3D unit Exploring Organisms introduces students to structure and function in plants and animals and the ties that exist between parents and their offspring. Building Blocks of Science® 3D lessons are structured in 30-minute class sessions, making it easy to fit science into your day. The Exploring Organisms 3-Use Unit Kit with Literacy Set includes a teacher’s guide (item #515742), 18 on-grade student readers (item #515703), 6 below-grade student readers (item #515703BGR), a license for the teacher and students to access online digital resources, and enough supplies and apparatus to teach the unit 3 times to a class of up to 24 students.
Along with hands-on learning, this Building Blocks of Science® 3D unit also provides digital resources to enhance the classroom experience. These components offer an additional method of delivering content, particularly for classrooms with consistent access to computers or tablets. Digital components include digital teacher’s guide, simulations, digital literacy reader, interactive whiteboard activities, interactive student investigation sheets, and assessment. All digital resources for Building Blocks of Science® 3D are accessible at CarolinaScienceOnline.com.
Unit Summary
Our world is composed of living and nonliving things that are in constant interaction. All living organisms have the same basic needs for survival: air, food, water, and shelter (space). How organisms access resources to meet these needs differs greatly. Plants and animals have specific structures to suit their specific needs and environments. Some organisms receive care from their parents that helps them reach adulthood. The hands-on, inquiry-based investigations of Exploring Organisms focus on phenomena that support concepts related to the growth, survival, and reproduction of organisms. Through a series of five lessons, students identify structures that are unique to different organisms, explain life cycles and parent-offspring relationships, and draw conclusions about the characteristics, or traits, of organisms and how those traits indicate family relationships. Students make comparisons between all these concepts and their own human abilities and needs.
Next Generation Science Standards*
The Building Blocks of Science® 3D unit Exploring Organisms (©2019) integrates process skills as defined by the Next Generation Science Standards.