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Next Generation Science Content Standards

Students who demonstrate understanding can:

K-ESS3-1. Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live. [Examples of relationships could include that deer eat buds and leaves, therefore, they usually live in forested areas; and, grasses need sunlight so they often grow in meadows. Plants, animals, and their surroundings make up a system.]
The performance expectation above was developed using the following elements from the NRC document A Framework for K-12 Science Education:

Developing and Using Models

Analyzing Modeling in K–2 builds on prior experiences and progresses to include using and developing models (i.e., diagram, drawing, physical replica, diorama, dramatization, storyboard) that represent concrete events or design solutions.

ESS3.A: Natural Resources

Systems and System Models

Connections to other DCIs in kindergarten: N/A

Articulation of DCIs across grade-levels:

1.LS1.A ; 5.LS2.A ; 5.ESS2.A

Common Core State Standards Connections:

ELA/Literacy -
SL.K.5 Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail. (K-ESS3-1)
Mathematics -
MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively. (K-ESS3-1)
MP.4 Model with mathematics. (K-ESS3-1)
K.CC Counting and Cardinality (K-ESS3-1)