Mississippi Science L.2.3B.1
The Standard
- L.2.3B
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of the interdependence of living things.
Evaluate and communicate findings from informational text or other media to describe and to compare how animals interact with other animals and plants in the environment (i.e., predator-prey relationships, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore).
2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science · Ecology and Interdependence
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Use short texts or clips to find what animals eat and how they interact with plants and other animals. Label animals as herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores, and identify predators and prey. Compare two animals using details from the sources.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can sort a rabbit, hawk, and bear by diet using facts from their cards. They can explain that a hawk hunting a rabbit is the predator and the rabbit is the prey.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think predators are always larger than their prey. They may call a bear a carnivore after seeing it eat fish, missing the berries it eats. They may treat a photo of an animal beside a plant as proof that it eats the plant.
How to Assess It
- Print this exit ticket: “Rabbits eat grass. Hawks hunt and eat rabbits. Bears eat berries and fish.” Ask students to label each animal’s diet, name the predator and prey, and compare what two animals eat.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Lay out grass, rabbit, hawk, berry, fish, and bear cards; connect each eater to its food with yarn using printed fact strips.
Ask students to compare a rabbit and a bear using two fact cards, then underline the words that prove each diet label.
Play diet match: students draw an animal card and a food card, then keep the pair only if a fact strip supports it.
Show two backyard robin photos, one eating a worm and one eating berries; have students explain why it is an omnivore.
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