Parents and Offspring
Timeline
- Lesson 8A: 2 hours
- Lesson 8B: 1.5 hours
- Lesson 8C: 2 hours
- Unit 8 Review:
- Summative Assessment: 10 minutes
- Putting It All Together: 30 minutes
Essential Statements
- I can identify how seedlings and adult plants are the same and different.
- I can identify how animal parents and their offspring are the same and different.
- I can explain how mother animals find their babies.
Essential Questions
- Do young plants look like their parents?
- Do young animals look like their parents?
- How do some animal mothers locate their babies?
Unit
8
Vocabulary
- Characteristics – a trait, quality, or property that makes something different (Lesson 8B)
- Flower – the part of a plant that makes a seed or many seeds (Lesson 8A)
- Life Cycle – the different stages a plant or animal goes through to make another one like it (Lesson 8A)
- Roost – a place where birds and bats rest (Lesson 8C)
- Seedlings – a baby plant, a sprout (Lesson 8A)
- Seeds – a living organism that can make a plant if conditions are right (Lesson 8A)
Essential Reading
Lesson 8A
- The Dandelion Seed ; ; Lesson 8A