Project BioEYES: Micro (4th/5th grades)

Pennsylvania’s Academic Standards for Science and Technology and Engineering Education, 4th/5th grades

3.1.A: Organisms and Cells

• 3.1.4.A2: Describe the different resources that plants and animals need to live. (4th grade)

• 3.1.5.A3: Compare and contrast the similarities and differences in life cycles of different organisms. (5th grade)

• 3.1.4.A8: MODELS Construct and interpret models and diagrams of various animal and plant life cycles. (4th grade)

• 3.1.4.B1: Describe features that are observable in both parents and their offspring. (4th grade)

• 3.1.4.B2: Recognize that reproduction is necessary for the continuation of life. (4th grade)

3.4.A: The Scope of Technology

• 3.4.5.A1: Explain how people use tools and techniques to help them do things. (5th grade)

3.4.E: The Designed World

• 3.4.5.E1: Identify how technological advances have made it possible to create new devices and to repair or replace certain parts of the human body. (5th grade)

Science as Inquiry:

• Design and conduct a scientific investigation and understand that current scientific knowledge guides scientific investigations.

• Use appropriate tools and technologies to gather, analyze, and interpret data and understand that it enhances accuracy and allows scientists to analyze and quantify results of investigations.

• Develop descriptions, explanations, and models using evidence and understand that these emphasize evidence, have logically consistent arguments, and are based on scientific principles, models, and theories.

• Analyze alternative explanations and understanding that science advances through legitimate skepticism.

• Use mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry.

• Understand that scientific investigations may result in new ideas for study, new methods, or procedures for an investigation or new technologies to improve data collection.

Pennsylvania Assessment Anchors and Eligible Content: Science Grade 4

S4.A.2: Processes, Procedures, and Tools of Scientific Investigations

• S4.A.2.1.1: Generate questions about objects, organisms, or events that can be answered through scientific investigations.

• S4.A.2.1.4: State a conclusion that is consistent with the information/data.

• S4.A.2.2.1: Identify appropriate tools or instruments for specific tasks and describe the information they can provide (e.g., measuring: length-ruler, mass- balance scale, volume-beaker, temperature-thermometer; making observations: hand lens, binoculars, telescope).

S4.B.1: Structure and Function of Organisms

• S4.B.1.1.1: Identify life processes of living things (e.g., growth, digestions, respiration).

• S4.B.1.1.2: Compare similar functions of external characteristics of organisms (e.g., anatomical characteristics: appendages, type of covering, body segments).

• S4.B.1.1.3: Describe basic needs of plants and animals (e.g., air, water, food).

• S4.B.1.1.4: Describe how different parts of a living thing work together to provide what the organism needs (e.g., parts of plants: roots, stems, leaves).

• S4.B.1.1.5: Describe the life cycles of different organisms (e.g., moth, grasshopper, frog, seed-producing plant).

S4.B.2: Continuity of Life

• S4.B.2.2.1 Identify physical characteristics (e.g., height, hair color, eye color, attached earlobes, ability to roll tongue) that appear in both parents and could be passed on to offspring.