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Kindergarten

Earth's Systems

 

Students who demonstrate understanding can:

Performance Expectations
 

 

Construct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs. K-ESS2-2

Clarification Statement and Assessment Boundary

Clarification Statement: Examples of plants and animals changing their environment could include a squirrel digs in the ground to hide its food and tree roots can break concrete.

Assessment Boundary: none

Science and Engineering Practices

Engaging in Argument from Evidence

Engaging in argument from evidence in K–2 builds on prior experiences and progresses to comparing ideas and representations about the natural and designed world(s).

Construct an argument with evidence to support a claim. (K-ESS2-2)

Disciplinary Core Ideas

ESS2.E:  Biogeology

Plants and animals can change their environment. (K-ESS2-2)

Crosscutting Concepts

Systems and System Models

Systems in the natural and designed world have parts that work together. (K-ESS2-2)

Common Core State Standards Connections

ELA/Literacy
  • RI.K.1 - With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (K-ESS2-2)
  • W.K.1 - Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book. (K-ESS2-2)
  • W.K.2 - Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. (K-ESS2-2)