1st Grade Plants and Animals Unit Blueprint
Post-Unit Assessment
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Essential & Unit Questions* 1 Benchmarks 2 Formative and Summative Assessments 3 Using Assessments to Monitor Student Learning
What are the basic needs of plants, animals, and humans? 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.

Record Sheet 1-A: My Living Thing (See Procedure Steps 1-3 on pages 193-195 in Teacher's Guide.) Do students drawings include the following:
  • A water source
  • A place suitable to live
  • A source of food if its an animal
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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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