EDM 321 LESSON 2

key concepts are presented repeatedly throughout the curriculum but with deepening layers of complexity.

This increases the breadth and the depth of knowledge achieved.

4 Major Field & Disciplines in K - 12

Characteristics & changes of Solid, Liquid, Gas

Science inventions

Materials and their uses

Gathering scientific information

- Properties used to minimize waste

- Importance of reading product label

- Changes that materials undergo

- Evidence of change

- Appropriate ways of storing materials

Mixture & Separating Mixtures

Living things and their environment

- Characteristics of Living Things

- Parts and Functions of Living Things

- Traits Passed on From Parents

- Interactions of Living Things with their Environment

- Basic Needs & Feeding Relationships

- Systems in plants and animals

- Plants & animals & their habitats

- Life cycles of animals

- Animals & the food they eat

- Food chains

- Stages of growth

- Parts of the reproductive system

- Development of secondary sex characteristics

- Menstrual cycle

- Reproductive system of representative groups of animal

- Differences in the modes of reproduction: external fertilization, internal fertilization

Protecting habitats of animals

Flowering plants and Non-flowering plants

Protecting habitats of plants

Interactions among Living Things

HUMAN & BODY SYSTEM- Musculoskeletal- Digestive system- Respiratory system- Circulatory system- Nervous system

- Characteristic of vertebrates/invertebrates

- Economic importance of vertebrates & invertebrates in the community

- Rare animals in the community

- Protecting and caring for animals

- Parts of spore-bearing plants

- Life cycle of ferns and mosses

- Vegetative plant propagation

- Physical condition of tropical rainforest, coral reef & mangrove swamp

- Plants and animals living in these ecosystems

- Feeding relationships in these ecosystems