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Living Systems 2 Weeks this nine weeks, 4 weeks next nine weeks Week 1: 3.5 A, B Living systems in plants and animals: parts of living systems and their role Week 2: 3.10 A, B Inherited traits of animals

Week 1-living system-plants and animals Engage-TAKScopes dinosour puzzle (sent to printshop), plant lima beans (observe throughout week(s)), get worms Explore-TAKScopes face system (draw parts of face needed to eat), worm lesson from picture perfect (Diary of a Worm in printer closet, lesson outline in your boxes) Explain-Plant Parts diagram/plant stages flip book -printshop-back on Mon. (how the parts form a system) This chart is an example of what to write inside the flip book.
 * The seed is planted it needs dark soil and water || When the seed begings to grow it is call germination. It is sprouting and growing roots. || This is a young plant. It is called a seedling. || This is a maturing plant. It makes its own food. It needs sun, water, air, and soil. ||

Elaborate-TAKScopes activities (Pick one or more: celery lab, non-fiction passage, game) Evaluate-writing prompt []

Week 2-inherited traits (4 days due to half day) Engage(Day 1)-parent/offspring cards-give each student a card (there are 21 matches) and they look for their match. Hand them an index card when they get together and they should write things that are the same and things that are different between the parent/offspring. Amber has 5 sets of these cards so we'll have to pass them around. The activity shouldn't take too long so we can all fit it in. Also, there is a little slideshow on takscopes in their engage portion.
 * Home activity-have students bring in pictures of them and their parents to see inherited traits passed down

Explore(Day 2-3)-alien parent/offspring. TAKScopes suggests having supplies for students to "build" their alien and offspring. You could request donations of stuff for this or be boring like me and just have them draw the parent and child alien. When everyone finishes tape all the parent aliens on one side of the board and the offsprings on the other and take turns guessing which aliens go together. Talk about the traits they share. There are discussion question on the TAKScopes explain section.

Explain/Elaborate(Day 3)-Talk about the traits the aliens share. There are discussion question on the TAKScopes explain section. You can also look at the elaborate section from TAKscopes

Evaluate(Day 4)-, test over living systems and inherited traits of animals, you can also use the writing prompt from TAKScopes to evaluate inherited traits (great for TELPAS) http://www.takscopes.com/scope_file/62/writing_activity_prompt/3_10AB_Life_Evaluate_WritingOnTopicPrompt.pdf

Evaluate-test over animal systems (lima beans and earthworms) and inherited traits of animals

4th nine weeks Inherited traits of plants Animal and Plant Adaptations Engage- Explore-Adaptation Artestry-from Project Wild, (groups or individuals) give students the list of bird adaptations and advantages and they will create a "superbird" in its habitat. Students will write a paragraph about their bird and how it survives using its adaptations Explain- Elaborate- Evaluate-