Concepts of Trees
Teachers want to keep these ideas in mind throughout the unit to help guide instruction and to emphasize with learners.
- All organisms have basic need. Trees need water, nutrients in the soil, light, and air.
- Organisms have different structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction.
- Trees have life cycles that include growth from seed, developing into mature trees, and formation of new seeds.
- All animals depend on plants. Many animals depend on trees for food or shelter.
- Organisms cause changes to their environment.
- Resources are things we get from living and nonliving things to meet our needs.
Inquiry Skills
Inquiry skills are those skills students use to make sense of their science investigations. They tell what the students will actually be doing in science. The Inquiry Skills for Trees are:
Comparing
Communicating
Observing
Predicting
Questioning
Recording (pictures and Words)
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