Mississippi Science L.K.4.1
The Standard
- L.K.4
- Students will demonstrate an understanding that some groups of plants and animals
Obtain information from informational text or other media to document and report examples of different plants or animals that are extinct.
2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science · Adaptations and Diversity
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use a book, picture caption, or video to learn about animals or plants that no longer exist. They draw or label examples and tell someone what they found.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name two different extinct animals, such as a dodo and a woolly mammoth, and say that none are alive today. They can draw both and share a fact they learned about each.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think extinct means one animal died, even if others of its kind are still alive. They may think an animal is extinct just because they have never seen it, or that extinct animals are hiding somewhere.
How to Assess It
- Read aloud two fact cards: "Dodos were birds. None are alive today" and "Woolly mammoths had thick fur. None are alive today." Have students draw and label both, then tell you one fact from each card.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs dodo and mammoth photos with short fact cards; have them glue the photos onto a class chart and dictate a fact.
After a dodo read-aloud, ask, "How do we know dodos are gone, not just hard to find?" Have partners point to a page.
Play picture bingo with extinct and living animals; read a fact card before students cover the matching picture.
Show a photo of a museum mammoth skeleton and its label; have students draw it and report one fact from the label.
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