1st Grade Plants and Animals Unit Blueprint
Lesson 16: Taking a Look at Ourselves
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Essential & Unit Questions* 1 Benchmarks 2 Formative and Summative Assessments 3 Using Assessments to Monitor Student Learning
How are plants, animals, and humans alike and different?

What are the basic needs of plants, animals, and humans?

5A(K-2)#1: Some animals and plants are alike in the way they look and in the things they do, and others are very different from one another.

5E(K-2)#1: Plants and animals both need to take in water, and animals need to take in food.

5C(K-2)#2: Most living things need water, food, and air.

Related to 6A(K-2)#2: People have different external features, such as the size, shape, and color of hair, skin, and eyes, but they are more like one another than like other animals.

  • Group Humans chart on similarities and differences (See Preparation Steps 5 & 6 on page 184 in Teacher's Guide and Procedure Steps 1-5 on page 185 in Teacher's Guide.)
  • Comparing Humans with Other Animals and Plants Venn Diagram
  • Summative Assessment: Independent student drawing and writing (See Final Activities Step 1 on page 185 in Teacher's Guide.)
 Humans Chart
  • Do students identify several similarities and differences between humans without teacher prompting?
  • Do their lists include things humans need or do rather than just physical features (without teacher prompting)?

Venn Diagram
Are students able to identify similarities among plants, animals, and humans? (need water, food, air, and a place to live; they grow and change)

Summative Assessment
Do students accurately complete the sentence starters?

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* Essential/Unit questions are major questions driving the unit. They are directly aligned with the benchmarks. No single lesson addresses each question in its entirety. By the end of the unit, students should be able to answer these core questions.

1. For conceptual benchmarks.
2. Bolded sections indicate portion of benchmark addressed
3. Unless noted as a Summative Assessment, the assessments are formative and should be used to guide teaching and learning.

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