Georgia S1L1

S1L1 is a Georgia science standard. These are the elements under it.

• S1L1.a

  Develop models to identify the parts of a plant—root, stem, leaf, and flower.

• S1L1.b

  Ask questions to compare and contrast the basic needs of plants (air, water, light, and nutrients) and animals (air, water, food, and shelter).

• S1L1.c

  Design a solution to ensure that a plant or animal has all of its needs met.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students identify what plants and animals need to live, including air, water, food or light, and suitable space. They use observations, pictures, or short texts to compare needs and explain their ideas.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students correctly sort needs shared by plants and animals and needs unique to each. They can explain how meeting or missing one need affects a living thing.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may say plants eat soil or do not need air. They may confuse wants with needs or assume every animal needs the same food and shelter.

04

How to Assess It

Show a picture of a wilted plant in a dark cupboard. Ask students to name two unmet needs and explain how they would help it.

1. 01

   Set up bean seedlings with different amounts of light or water, then record changes with drawings for several days.

2. 02

   Ask students to write or discuss, “Which needs do a sunflower and a rabbit share, and which needs are different?”

3. 03

   Play a card sort where students place picture cards under plant, animal, both, or not a need.

4. 04

   Choose a schoolyard plant or animal, then make a labeled care plan showing how its basic needs are met.

• S4L1

  Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the roles of organisms and the flow of energy within an ecosystem.

• S7L4

  Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to examine the interdependence of organisms with one another and their environments.

• S2E3

  Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about how weather, plants, animals, and humans cause changes to the environment.

• S2L1

  Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the life cycles of different living organisms.