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Grade 1
Understanding Life Systems: Needs and Characteristics of Living Things
1.1 identify personal action that they themselves can take to help maintain a healthy environment for living things, including humans.
1.2 describe changes or problems that could result from the loss of some kinds of living things that are part of everyday life, taking different points of view into consideration
2.2 investigate and compare the basic needs of humans and other living things, including the need for air, water, food, warmth, and space, using a variety of methods and resources.
2.3 investigate and compare the physical characteristics of a variety of plants and animals, including humans.
2.6 use appropriate science and technology vocabulary, including investigation, explore, needs, space, and food, in oral and written communication
3.1 identify environment as the area in which something or someone exists or lives
3.2 identify the physical characteristics of a variety of plants and animals.
3.4 describe the characteristics of a healthy environment, including clean air and water and nutritious food, and explain why it is important for all living things to have a healthy environment.
3.5 describe how showing care and respect for all living things helps to maintain a healthy environment.
3.6 identify what living things provide for other living things
3.7 describe how the things plants and animals use to meet their needs are changed by their use and are returned to the environment in different forms.
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