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Mosses & Ferns StudyJam

Classroom Resource Information

Title:

Mosses & Ferns StudyJam

URL:

https://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/plants/mosses-and-ferns.htm

Content Source:

Other
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Type:

Interactive/Game

Overview:

Mosses and ferns fall into two types: vascular and non-vascular. Vascular means they have tubes running throughout that can carry water and nutrients. Non-vascular plants, like liverworts, do not have tubes, so they are much smaller.

This resource presents a short slide show about the reproduction of mosses and ferns, which use spores to reproduce. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short test to assess their understanding.

Content Standard(s):

Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: 3

6 ) Create representations to explain the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans (e.g., flowering plants, frogs, butterflies), including commonalities such as birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

NAEP Framework

NAEP Statement::
L4.5: Plants and animals have life cycles. Both plants and animals begin life and develop into adults, reproduce, and eventually die. The details of this life cycle are different for different organisms.

Unpacked Content

Scientific And Engineering Practices:

Developing and Using Models

Crosscutting Concepts: Patterns

Disciplinary Core Idea: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Create representations to explain the unique life cycles of organisms other than humans.
Create representations to explain the diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans.
Identify relevant components (organisms, birth, growth, reproduction, and death) of their representations.
Describe relationships between components in their representations.

Teacher Vocabulary:

Create
Explain
Representations
Unique
Diverse
Commonalities
Life cycles
Organisms
Birth
Growth
Reproduction
Death

Knowledge:

Students know:

Organisms are born, grow, reproduce and die in a pattern known as a life cycle.
Organisms have unique and diverse life cycles.
An organism can be classified as either a plant or an animal.
There is a causal direction of the cycle (e.g., without birth, there is no growth; without reproduction, there are no births).

Skills:

Students are able to:

Create representations to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
Explain the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans.
Explain commonalities of organisms such as birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

Patterns of change can be used to make predictions about the unique life cycles of organisms.

AMSTI Resources:

AMSTI Module:
Heredity and Diversity

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.3.6- Observe and recognize the major stages (birth, growth, reproduction, and death) in the life cycles of organisms other than humans (e.g., flowering plants, frogs, butterflies).

Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: 4

9 ) Examine evidence to support an argument that the internal and external structures of plants (e.g., thorns, leaves, stems, roots, colored petals, xylem, phloem) and animals (e.g., heart, stomach, lung, brain, skin) function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

NAEP Framework

NAEP Statement::
L4.4: When the environment changes, some plants and animals survive and reproduce; others die or move to new locations.

Unpacked Content

Scientific And Engineering Practices:

Engage in Argument from Evidence

Crosscutting Concepts: Systems and System Models; Structure and Function

Disciplinary Core Idea: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Argue from evidence to support that the internal and external structures of plants function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Argue from evidence to support that the internal and external structures of animals function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Teacher Vocabulary:

argue
articulate
evidence
internal
external
structure
survival
function
behavior
reproduction

Knowledge:

Students know:

Internal and External structures serve specific functions within plants and animals.
The functions of internal and external structures can support survival, growth, behavior and/or reproduction in plants and animals.
Different structures work together as part of a system to support survival, growth, behavior, and/or reproduction.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Articulate an explanation from evidence explaining how the internal and external structures of plants and animals function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Determine the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence collected, including whether or not it supports a claim about the role of internal and external structures of plants and animals in supporting survival, growth, behavior, and/or reproduction.
Use reasoning to connect the relevant and appropriate evidence to support an argument about the function of the internal and external structures of plants and animals.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

Plants and animals have both internal and external structures that serve various functions in growth, survival, behavior, and reproduction.

AMSTI Resources:

AMSTI Module:
Animal Studies

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.4.9- Identify basic parts of plants and animals.

Tags:

ferns, fronds, gametophyte, mosses, nonvascular, plants, reproduce, rhizoids, sporophyte, vascular

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Comments

The test may be completed as a whole group or independently on student devices.

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Author:

Hannah Bradley

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Mosses & Ferns StudyJam