Understandings: Essential Questions: Students will How did energy from the sun become the understand that… Food provides animals with the energy found in food that is used animals’ materials and energy they need for for body repair, growth, motion, and to body repair, growth, warmth and maintain body warmth? motion. Plants acquire material for How do plants get the materials they need growth chiefly from air, water, and for growth chiefly from air and water? process matter and obtain energy from How does matter move among plants, sunlight, which is used to maintain animals, decomposers, and the conditions necessary for survival. environment? The food of almost any animal can be traced back to plants. Organisms are related in food webs in which some animals eat plants for food and other animals eat the animals that eat plants, while decomposers restore some materials back to the soil. Matter cycles between the air and soil and among organisms as they live and die. Energy can be or “produced,” “used,” by converting stored “released” energy. Plants capture energy from sunlight, which can later be used as fuel or food. Knowledge: Skills: Students will Students will be able know… to… Organisms are related in food webs in Describe the steps of a food chain for which some animals eat plants for animals in an ecosystem. food and other animals eat the Describe how an animal is affected by the animals that eat plants. elimination of a part of a food chain. The energy released from food was Show how energy is transferred from the once energy from the sun that was sun into food into an animal through the captured by plants in the chemical chemical process. process that forms plant matter. Present ideas of ecosystems that can be A healthy ecosystem is one in which described as healthy. multiple species of different types are Describe the growth cycle of plants and the each able to meet their needs in a necessary factors for their growth. relatively stable web of life. Describe the process in which plants turn Plants get the materials they need for matter that is not food into matter that is growth mainly from air and water, not food. soil. Matter that is not food (air, water, decomposed materials in soil) is changed by plants into matter that is food.
Understandings: Students will understand that… Food provides animals with the materials and energy they need for body repair, growth, warmth and motion. Plants acquire material for growth chiefly from air, water, and process matter and obtain energy from sunlight, which is used to maintain conditions necessary for survival. The food of almost any animal can be traced back to plants. Organisms are related in food webs in which some animals eat plants for food and other animals eat the animals that eat plants, while decomposers restore some materials back to the soil. Matter cycles between the air and soil and among organisms as they live and die. Energy can be “produced,” “used,” or “released” by converting stored energy. Plants capture energy from sunlight, which can later be used as fuel or food. Essential Questions: How did energy from the sun become the energy found in animals’ food that is used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth? How do plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water? How does matter move among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment? Knowledge: Students will know… Organisms are related in food webs in which some animals eat plants for food and other animals eat the animals that eat plants. The energy released from food was once energy from the sun that was captured by plants in the chemical process that forms plant matter. A healthy ecosystem is one in which multiple species of different types are each able to meet their needs in a relatively stable web of life. Plants get the materials they need for growth mainly from air and water, not soil. Matter that is not food (air, water, decomposed materials in soil) is changed by plants into matter that is food. Skills: Students will be able to… Describe the steps of a food chain for animals in an ecosystem. Describe how an animal is affected by the elimination of a part of a food chain. Show how energy is transferred from the sun into food into an animal through the chemical process. Present ideas of ecosystems that can be described as healthy. Describe the growth cycle of plants and the necessary factors for their growth. Describe the process in which plants turn matter that is not food into matter that is food.