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Can You Dig It?

Classroom Resource Information

Title:

Can You Dig It?

URL:

https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/plum14.sci.life.canyoudigit/can-you-dig-it/

Content Source:

PBS

Type:

Interactive/Game

Overview:

Players take on the role of bilbies, rabbit-sized Australian marsupials, as they race through the landscape looking for food and avoiding predators—and trying not to run into rocks—in this interactive game from PLUM LANDING™. They also learn about the bilby’s life cycle and the plants and animals that share its ecosystem.

Content Standard(s):

Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: 3

5 ) Obtain and combine information to describe that organisms are classified as living things, rather than nonliving things, based on their ability to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce, and maintain stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment.

NAEP Framework

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

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.

NAEP Statement::
L8.7: The number of organisms and populations an ecosystem can support depends on the biotic resources available and abiotic factors, such as quantity of light and water, range of temperatures, and soil composition.

Unpacked Content

Scientific And Engineering Practices:

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Crosscutting Concepts: Patterns

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

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Obtain information from multiple sources and combine it to describe that organisms are classified as living things rather than nonliving things.

Teacher Vocabulary:

Organisms
Living things
Nonliving things
Growth
Resources
Reproduce
Stable conditions
Internal conditions
External environment

Knowledge:

Students know:

Resources obtained and used by living things.
Organisms can be classified as living things based on the following: their ability to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce, and maintain stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment.
The life cycles of different organisms can look different, but all follow a pattern.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Obtain information from a variety of resources to describe organisms that are classified as living things, rather than nonliving things.
Combine information to describe that organisms are classified as living things, rather than nonliving things.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

Patterns can be used when determining that organisms are living things.

AMSTI Resources:

AMSTI Module:
Heredity and Diversity

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.3.5- Classify common objects as living, rather than nonliving, based on their ability to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce, and adapt to the environment.

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

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).

Tags:

bilbies, bilby, ecosystem, life cycle, marsupial, survival

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Author:

Stephanie Carver

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Can You Dig It?