Project BioEYES: Nano (2nd/3rd grades)

Pennsylvania’s Academic Standards for Science and Technology and Engineering Education, 2nd/3rd grades

3.1.A: Organisms and Cells

• 3.1.2.A3: Identify similarities and differences in the life cycles of plants and animals (2nd grade)

• 3.1.3.A2: Describe the basic needs of living things and their dependence on light, food, air, water, and shelter. (3rd grade)

• 3.1.3.A3: Illustrate how plants and animals go through predictable life cycles that include birth, growth, development, reproduction, and death. (3rd grade)

• 3.1.3.B1: Understand that plants and animals closely resemble their parents. (3rd grade)

3.1.B: Genetics

• 3.1.3.B5: PATTERNS Identify characteristics that appear in both parents and offspring. (3rd grade)

3.1.C: Evolution

• 3.1.2.C2: Explain that living things can only survive if their needs are being met. (2nd grade)

Science as Inquiry:

• Ask questions about objects, organisms, and events

• Plan and conduct a simple investigation and understand that different questions require different kinds of investigations.

• Use simple equipment (tools and other technologies) to gather data and understand that this allows scientists to collect more information than relying only on their senses to gather information.

• Use data/evidence to construct explanations and understand that scientists develop explanations based on their evidence and compare them with their current scientific knowledge.

• Communicate procedures and explanations giving priority to evidence and understanding that scientists make their results public, describe their investigations so they can be reproduced, and review and ask questions about the work of other scientists