Exploring Native Plant Adaptations

Possible Connections to NGSS

Performance Expectations

K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants, animals and humans need to survive.

1-LS3-1: Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.

2-LS4-1: Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.

3-LS4-4: Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environmental changes and types of plants and animals that live there may change.

4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

5-LS1-1: Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.