Gather evidence to support how plants and animals provide for their needs by altering their environment (e.g., tree roots breaking a sidewalk to provide space, red fox burrowing to create a den to raise young, humans growing gardens for food and building roads for transportation).
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Vocabulary
- Gather
- Evidence
- Support
- Plant
- Animal
- Provide
- Needs
- Alter
- Environment
- Claim
Knowledge
- Plants and animals meet their needs.
- Plants change their environment to meet their needs.
- Animals change their environment to meet their needs.
Skills
- Gather data (evidence) to support a claim that plants and animals alter the environment when meeting their needs.
Understanding
- Systems in the natural and designed world have parts that work together like the plants and animals within their environments.