First Grade Unit: Animal Life
Content Statements and Expectations
Background –
The first grade life science curriculum builds on the students’ prior knowledge of living and nonliving things and the basic needs of all living things. Students explore the development of animals through the basic life cycle, egg, young and adult, and egg, larva, pupa and adult. They make connections between young and adult and recognize characteristics that are passed from parent to young.
Big Ideas (Key Concepts)
• Animals have needs for life (air, water, food, and space).
• Animals have a life cycle that includes egg, young (larva, pupa) and adult.
• Animals share some, but not all characteristics of their parents.
Code Statements & Expectations
L.OL.E.1 Life Requirements – Organisms have basic needs. Animals and plants need air, water, and food. Plants also require light. Plants and animals use food as a
source of energy for growth and repair.
L.OL.01.13 Identify the needs of animals. 3
L.OL.E.2 Life Cycles – Plants and animals have life cycles. Both plants and animals begin life and develop into adults, reproduce, and eventually die. The details of this life
cycle are different for different organisms.
L.OL.01.21 Describe the life cycle of animals including the following stages: egg, young, adult; egg, larva, pupa, adult
L.HE.E.1 Observable Characteristics – Plants and animals share many, but not all, characteristics of their parents.
L.HE.01.11 Identify characteristics (for example: body coverings, beak shape, number of legs, body parts) that are passed from parents to young.
L.HE.01.12 Classify young animals based on characteristics that are passed on from parents (dogs
Content Statements and Expectations
Background –
The first grade life science curriculum builds on the students’ prior knowledge of living and nonliving things and the basic needs of all living things. Students explore the development of animals through the basic life cycle, egg, young and adult, and egg, larva, pupa and adult. They make connections between young and adult and recognize characteristics that are passed from parent to young.
Big Ideas (Key Concepts)
• Animals have needs for life (air, water, food, and space).
• Animals have a life cycle that includes egg, young (larva, pupa) and adult.
• Animals share some, but not all characteristics of their parents.
Code Statements & Expectations
L.OL.E.1 Life Requirements – Organisms have basic needs. Animals and plants need air, water, and food. Plants also require light. Plants and animals use food as a
source of energy for growth and repair.
L.OL.01.13 Identify the needs of animals. 3
L.OL.E.2 Life Cycles – Plants and animals have life cycles. Both plants and animals begin life and develop into adults, reproduce, and eventually die. The details of this life
cycle are different for different organisms.
L.OL.01.21 Describe the life cycle of animals including the following stages: egg, young, adult; egg, larva, pupa, adult
L.HE.E.1 Observable Characteristics – Plants and animals share many, but not all, characteristics of their parents.
L.HE.01.11 Identify characteristics (for example: body coverings, beak shape, number of legs, body parts) that are passed from parents to young.
L.HE.01.12 Classify young animals based on characteristics that are passed on from parents (dogs
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