1. SCIENCE GRADE THREE – PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE CYCLES
Decomposers
Compare and contrast
Biotic potential
Plant
and
Animal
Life Cycles
Seed germination
and growth
Life Cycles
Flowers, fruits and seeds
Vocabulary:
Development
Growth
Insect
Life cycle
Nutrient
Pollen
Pollinate
Seedling
Tadpole
Essential Understandings:
We can compare and contrast living, nonliving and dead materials based on their similarities and differences
Plants and animals have life cycles and they grow and change
Flowers, fruits and seeds have parts that perform specific functions
Factors affect seed germination and growth
Biotic potential is the maximum population increase under ideal conditions
Biotic potential is limited by environmental factors such as competition for food water, natural disasters, prey, parasites and disease
Dead organisms decompose