Terrarium Workshop

This field trip supports the following NYS P-12 Science Learning Standards:

• P-LS1-1. Observe familiar plants and animals (including humans) and describe what they need to survive.

• P-LS1-2. Plan and conduct an investigation to determine how familiar plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive in the environment.

• K-LS1-1. Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

• K-ESS3-1. Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.

• 1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow and meet their needs.

• 3-LS1-1. Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction and death.

• 3-LS3-2. Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

• 4-LS1-1. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior and reproduction.

• 5-PS3-1. Use models to describe that energy in animals; food (used for body repair, growth, motion and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.

• 5-LS1-1. Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.

• 5-LS2-1. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants (producers), animals (consumers), decomposers, and the environment.

• MS-ESS2-4. Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth’s systems driven by the energy from the Sun and the force of gravity.

• HS-LS2-3. Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for the cycling of matter and flow of energy in ecosystems.