Adaptive Perseverance: Encourage experimentation with design solutions that mimic natural structures.
Learner’s Mindset: Foster curiosity about the natural world and human-made objects, focusing on how their parts serve specific functions.
Critical Thinking: Promote analysis of the structure-function relationship in various contexts.
Collaboration: Students will work in groups to explore and present findings on how different structures serve specific functions in living things and objects.
How does the structure of a plant help it grow and survive?
In what ways do different parts of the human body work together to keep us healthy and moving?
Why do certain objects have specific shapes or parts for their function?
Modeling
Constructing Explanations
NGSS 1-LS1: Structure, Function, and Information Processing
1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.*
1-LS1-2. Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.
1-LS3-1. Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
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