Life Science

S5L1 Students will classify organisms into groups and relate how they determined the groups with how and why scientists use classification.    
a. Demonstrate how animals are sorted into groups (vertebrate and invertebrate) and how vertebrates are sorted into groups (fish, amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal).  
 b. Demonstrate how plants are sorted into groups.  
S5L2 Students will recognize that offspring can resemble parents in inherited traits and learned behaviors.  
 a. Compare and contrast the characteristics of learned behaviors and of inherited traits.  
b. Discuss what a gene is and the role genes play in the transfer of traits.  
  S5L3 Students will diagram and label parts of various cells (plant, animal, single-celled, multi-celled).  
a. Use magnifiers such as microscopes or hand lenses to observe cells and their structure.  
 b. Identify parts of a plant cell (membrane, wall, cytoplasm, nucleus, chloroplasts) and of an animal cell (membrane, cytoplasm, and nucleus) and determine the function of the parts.  
 c. Explain how cells in multi-celled organisms are similar and different in structure and function to single-celled organisms.    
S5L4 Students will relate how microorganisms benefit or harm larger organisms.
a. Identify beneficial microorganisms and explain why they are beneficial.
b. Identify harmful microorganisms and explain why they are harmful.