Florida SC.K.L.14.2
The Standard
Recognize that some books and other media portray animals and plants with characteristics and behaviors they do not have in real life.
Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards for Science
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify details in stories, cartoons, and pictures that are make-believe. They compare those details with what real plants and animals look like and do.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given an image or short scene, a student can label a trait or action as real or make-believe. The student gives a simple reason, such as, “Real dogs do not read books.”
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think talking animals, walking trees, or smiling flowers behave that way because they saw it on a screen. They may also call unusual real traits make-believe, such as a Venus flytrap catching insects.
How to Assess It
- Show a rabbit eating grass and a rabbit driving a car. Ask, “Which could happen in real life, and how do you know?”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs picture cards showing animals and plants, then have students sort them into “real” and “make-believe” hoops.
Read one page from an animal story and ask, “What could this animal really do, and what is pretend?”
Play Real or Pretend by naming actions while students hold up an R card or a P card.
Observe a class plant for several days, then compare its real changes with a cartoon plant that talks or walks.
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Related Standards
- SC.3.N.3.3
Recognize that all models are approximations of natural phenomena; as such, they do not perfectly account for all observations.
- SC.4.L.17.4
Recognize ways plants and animals, including humans, can impact the environment.
- SC.4.L.16.3
Recognize that animal behaviors may be shaped by heredity and learning.
- SC.K.L.14.3
Observe plants and animals, describe how they are alike and how they are different in the way they look and in the things they do.
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