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Big Idea:
Big Idea:
Organisms respond to changes in their internal and external environments in order to maintain stable internal conditions.
Student Expectations:
Student Expectations:
Priority TEKS
Priority TEKS
7.13(A) [Supporting] investigate how organisms respond to external stimuli found in the environment such as phototropism and fight or flight.
7.13(B) [Supporting] describe and relate responses in organisms that may result from internal stimuli such as wilting in plants and fever or vomiting in animals that allow them to maintain balance.
Focus TEKS
Focus TEKS
7.7(C [Supporting] demonstrate and illustrate forces that affect motion in everyday life such as emergence of seedlings, turgor pressure, and geotropism.
Ongoing TEKS
Ongoing TEKS
7.1(A) [Tools To Know] Demonstrate safe practices during laboratory and field investigations
7.1(B) [Tools to Know] Practice appropriate use and conservation of resources, including disposal, reuse, or recycling of materials.
7.2(A) [Tools To Know] The student is expected to plan and implement comparative and descriptive investigations by making observations, asking well defined questions, and using appropriate equipment and technology.
7.2(E) [Ways to Show] analyze data to formulate reasonable explanations, communicate valid conclusions supported by the data, and predict trends.
7.4(A) [Tools To Know] use appropriate tools to collect, record, and analyze information, including life science models, hand lens, stereoscopes, microscopes, beakers, Petri dishes, microscope slides, graduated cylinders, test tubes, meter sticks, metric rulers, metric tape measures, timing devices, hot plates, balances, thermometers, calculators, water test kits, computers, temperature and pH probes, collecting nets, insect traps, globes, digital cameras, journals/notebooks, and other
7.4(B) [Tools To Know] use preventative safety equipment, including chemical splash goggles, aprons, and gloves, and be prepared to use emergency safety equipment, including an eye/face wash, a fire blanket, and a fire extinguisher.
Student Learning Targets:
Student Learning Targets:
- I will identify responses by plants and animals to internal and external stimuli.
- I will discuss how plant and animal responses help maintain homeostasis.
- I will write about how organisms respond to their internal and external environments in order to maintain homeostasis.
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- How do plants respond to environmental stimuli?
- How do plant responses to internal and external stimuli allow plants to maintain homeostasis?
- How do animals respond to internal and external stimuli?
- How do behaviors help animals maintain homeostasis?
Extra Information:
Extra Information:
Adopted Textbook: Texas STEM, McGraw-Hill
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