THE PRACTICE OF SCIENCE

LIFE SCIENCE Organization and Development of

Living OrganismsTOPIC XIISC.K.L.14.2

Animal and Plant Portrayals

Grade K Pacing Guide: Organization and Development of Living Organisms/

Similarities and Differences of Plants and Animals/Practice of Science Benchmarks

• SC.K.L.14.2: Recognize that some books and other media portray animals and plants with characteristics and behaviors they do not have in real life.

• SC.K.N.1.1: Collaborate with a partner to collect information.

• SC.K.N.1.2: Make observations of the natural world and know that they are descriptors collected using the five senses.

• SC.K.N.1.3: Keep records as appropriate - such as pictorial - of investigations conducted.

• SC.K.N.1.4: Observe and create a visual representation of an object which includes major features.

• SC.K.N.1.5: Recognize that learning can come from careful observation.

This is a picture from a book about creatures and being scared.

Do these characters look real?Why or why not?

Stories sometimes give plants and animals attributes or qualities they really do not have. Which is real?

Who are Bambi’s friends? What ways do her friends appear to act like people?What are they able to do that seems unbelievable? .

Sometimes animals are portrayed in stories acting like humans. Look at the picture of the three pigs.How are they acting like humans?

• Wearing clothes• Dancing • Playing instruments• Singing

Can you think of other stories that have animals portrayed with characteristics that people have?

What makes things real or make-believe?

Real plants or make-believe?

Plants and animals are sometimes portrayed through fiction, displaying human characteristics.

Living duck or non-living?

Plants and animals have their own characteristics

that are real.

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A real characteristic of plants is having green leaves. Animals like the beaver can really build a dam and a bird can really build a nest.

Do you recognize the characters from this book, “Where the Wild Things Are?”Why do they look real? Why don’t they?

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Compare and contrast characteristics of animals that are real with those that are

not real .

Let’s fill in one Venn Diagram to identify characteristics of the rabbit that are real and

not real.

Real Not Real

Look at the picture.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

-Albert Einstein (1879-1955) physicist