Texas TEKS K.13.B
The Standard
identify the different structures that animals have that allow them to interact with their environment such as seeing, hearing, moving, and grasping objects
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students name animal body parts, such as eyes, ears, legs, wings, paws, claws, and trunks. They explain how each part helps an animal sense, move, or handle objects.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can look at an animal picture and identify a body part and its job. They can compare two animals and explain how different parts help them act in their surroundings.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name a body part without connecting it to a job. They may think all animals move, hear, see, or pick up objects in the same way.
How to Assess It
- Show a picture of an elephant and ask, “Name one body part and tell how it helps the elephant interact with its surroundings.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs animal figures and picture cards to match eyes, ears, wings, legs, claws, or trunks with what each part does.
Ask, “Which animal body part would help you most in a forest, and what would you do with it?”
Play Animal Part Charades, where students act out seeing, hearing, flying, walking, or grasping while classmates name the body part used.
Observe birds or squirrels outside, then record one body part each animal uses to move, sense danger, or collect food.
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Related Standards
- 1.13.A
identify the external structures of different animals and compare how those structures help different animals live, move, and meet basic needs for survival;
- 2.13.B
record and compare how the structures and behaviors of animals help them find and take in food, water, and air;
- 3.13.A
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- 5.13.A
analyze the structures and functions of different species to identify how organisms survive in the same environment; and
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