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Living Things

• A Matter

  • A.1 Characteristics of living things

    • A.1.b Describes activities connected to the metabolism of living things (transformation of energy, growth, maintenance of systems and body temperature)

      • Body systems: digestion (5-J.3)

    • A.1.d Describes the types of sexual reproduction in animals (roles of the male and the female)

    • A.1.f Describes types of asexual reproduction in plants (e.g. budding, propagation by cuttings, formation of rootstocks and tubers)

  • A.2 Organization of living things

    • A.2.i Describes the anatomy and the function of the main organs of the female and male reproductive systems

  • A.3 Transformations of living things

    • A.3.d Describes the changes in appearance of animals that undergo a metamorphosis (e.g. butterfly, frog)

      • Read and construct animal life cycle diagrams (6-L.1)
      • Compare animal life cycles (6-L.2)

    • A.3.e Explains the stages of growth and development in humans

    • A.3.f Describes the physical changes that take place during puberty

    • A.3.g Describes the main stages of the evolution of life forms

• B Energy

  • B.1 Sources of energy for living things

    • B.1.d Describes how photosynthesis works

      • How do plants use and change energy? (6-P.1)

    • B.1.e Distinguishes between photosynthesis and respiration

    • B.1.f Explains how water, light, mineral salts and carbon dioxide are essential to plants

      • How do plants use and change energy? (6-P.1)

    • B.1.g Describes agricultural and food technologies (e.g. crossbreeding of plants and their propagation by cuttings, selection and breeding of animals, food production, pasteurization)

  • B.2 Transformation of energy in living things

    • B.2.b Describes an ecological pyramid of a given environment

• C Forces and motion

  • C.2 Motion in plants

    • C.2.a Distinguishes among the three types of motion in plants (geotropism, hydrotropism, phototropism)

    • C.2.b Explains how the types of motion in plants enable them to meet their basic needs

• D Systems and interaction

  • D.3 Interaction between humans and their environment

    • D.3.a Describes the impact of human activity on the environment (e.g. use of resources, pollution, waste management, land use, urbanization, agriculture)

      • Coral reef biodiversity and human uses: explore a problem (6-R.1)
      • Coral reef biodiversity and human uses: evaluate solutions (6-R.2)
      • Evaluate claims about natural resource use: groundwater (6-S.1)
      • Evaluate claims about natural resource use: fossil fuels (6-S.2)

  • D.5 Environmental technologies

    • D.5.a Explains the scientific and technological concepts associated with recycling and composting (e.g. properties of matter, phase changes, physical changes, chemical changes, food chain, energy)

• E Techniques and instrumentation

  • E.1 Use of simple observational instruments

    • E.1.a Appropriately uses simple observational instruments (e.g. magnifying glass, binoculars)

  • E.2 Use of simple measuring instruments

    • E.2.a Appropriately uses simple measuring instruments (e.g. rulers, dropper, graduated cylinder, balance, thermometer)

  • E.3 Design and manufacture of environments

    • E.3.a Designs and manufactures environments (e.g. aquarium, terrarium, incubator, greenhouse)

• F Appropriate language

  • F.1 Terminology related to an understanding of living things

    • F.1.a Appropriately uses terminology related to an understanding of living things

    • F.1.b Distinguishes between the meaning of a term used in a scientific or technological context and its meaning in everyday language (e.g. habitat, metamorphosis)

  • F.2 Conventions and types of representations specific to the concepts studied

    • F.2.a Communicates using appropriate types of representations that reflect the rules and conventions of science and technology (e.g. symbols, graphs, tables, drawings, sketches)