Content Standard: A. CLASSIFYING LIFE FORMS
Students will understand that there are similarities within the diversity of all living things. 

Common Assessment(s)
 

Performance Indicators Students will be able to:	Essential Elements (Specific grade level learning objectives)			Suggested Performance Activities	Suggested Classroom Assessments	Vocabulary
1. Compare systems of classifying organisms including systems used by scientists.	Classify creatures in local ecosystem as consumers vs. producers. How does animal group breed, eat, move, defend self. What adaptations has a specific animal undergone.			Chewonki pond study. Chewonki animal study.	Students will describe on examination how an animal's adaptations allow it to function and survive in its world/environment. Check journal entries. Check post activities/written and drawn.	adaptation structural behavioral survival