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How Organisms Shape Habitats
CONCEPTUALConstruct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals can change the environment to meet their needs
Mastery Evidence
- Give at least three examples of organisms changing their environment (beaver dams, bird nests, plant roots breaking rock)
- Explain why organisms change their environment (to meet needs for shelter, food, water)
- Construct an argument with evidence showing how a specific organism changes its environment
Assessment Prompt
“Can [child] explain how a beaver builds a dam that changes a river into a pond, or how tree roots can crack rocks apart?”
Curriculum Standards1 alignment
K-ESS2-2Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) K-5codes onlyStandard code — full text not included in this dataset.
Prerequisites1
- What Living Things NeedhardAges 5—7
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- What Living Things Need hard
Must understand what organisms need before explaining how they change environments to meet those needs
- Living Things Vocabulary soft
Describing what plants and animals need to survive uses life processes vocabulary: nutrition, growth, sensitivity
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