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Title:

Manatees!

URL:

https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/reach-with-stem-manatees/manatees/

Content Source:

PBS

Type:

Interactive/Game

Overview:

Dive in and explore the wet and wonderful world of our friends, the manatees. Practice reading and learning like a scientist reads and learns. Have fun comparing and contrasting text and visual media, and read some very happy news about manatees.

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.

English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 3

26. Use text comparisons (text to text, text to self, and text to world) to make meaning.

a. Use prior knowledge to determine similarities between texts they are reading and texts they have previously read.

b. Compare different versions of the same story.

Unpacked Content

Teacher Vocabulary:

26.

Text comparison
Text to text
Text to self
Text to world
Meaning

26a.

Prior knowledge
Determine
Similarities

26b.

Compare
Versions

Knowledge:

26. Students know:

Comparison is identifying similarities between two things.
Text to text comparison means to identify similarities between two texts.
Text to self comparison means to identify similarities between a text and a personal experience.
Text to world comparison means to identify similarities between a text and a current event or background knowledge.

26a.

Prior knowledge is what they already know.
Information gathered from texts they have previously read becomes part of their prior knowledge.

26b.

Comparison is identifying similarities between two things.

Skills:

26. Students are able to:

Compare two texts to make meaning of the information presented in the text.
Compare a text to their personal experiences to make meaning of the information presented in the text.
Compare a text to a current event or their background knowledge to make meaning of the information presented in the text.

26a.

Use prior knowledge to make comparisons between texts.
Determine similarities between a text they are currently reading and a text that have read in the past.

26b.

Identify similarities between different versions of the same story.

Understanding:

26. Students understand that:

Their comprehension will be enhanced by making multiple connections between texts, themselves, and the real world.

26a.

Their prior knowledge can help make connections between texts.
Each text they read increases their background knowledge, and they can make connections to new texts to improve their comprehension.

26b.

Different authors can produce different versions of the same story.
They can improve their comprehension by making connections between two similar texts.

Tags:

compare, contrast, endangered, living things, manatee

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Author:

Stephanie Carver

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Manatees!