BIG IDEA 14: Organization and Development of Living Organisms
A. All plants and animals, including human, are alike in some ways and different in others.
B. All plants and animals, including humans, have internal parts and external structures that function to keep them alive and help them grow and
reproduce.
C. Humans can better understand the natural world through careful observation.
TOPIC 13: Plants and Animals
Learning Objectives:
 Classify animals into major groups according to their physical characteristics and/or behaviors.
 Identify the parts and functions of a plant.
 Compare and contrast the function of organs and other physical structures of plants and animals, including humans as to skin compared to plant
covering, skeleton compared to stem, and reproductive organs compared to a flower.
 Investigate and describe different ways plants respond to stimuli such as the way plant stems grow toward light.
 Recognize and describe how flowering plants reproduce and the role that wind, bats, birds, and insects play in pollination and also in spreading
seeds.
 Compare how flowering and non flowering plants reproduce.
 Classify flowering and/or non-flowering plants into major groups.
Identify, compare, and/or contrast the life cycles of Florida plants and/or animals, such as those that undergo incomplete and complete
metamorphosis, and flowering and non-flowering seed-bearing plants.
Core Text Book: Chapter 1: lessons 1-4, pp. 6-23; Chapter 4: lessons 1-4 pp. 89-113
Vocabulary: organs, structures, functions, roots, stems, leaves, flower, fruit, seed, germination, fertilization, pistil, pollen, pollinate, petals, ovary,
spore, stamen, seed , seed dispersal, vertebrates, bones, skeleton, invertebrates, exoskeleton, gills, lungs, skin, body covering, complete and
incomplete metamorphosis
SC.5.L.14.2 Compare and contrast the function of organs and other physical structures of plants and animals, including humans, for example: some
animals have skeletons for support – some with internal skeletons others with exoskeletons – while some plants have stems for support.
Fair Game Benchmarks (standards taught in previous grades)
SC.3.L.15.1 and SC.3.L.15.2
SC.3.L.14.1 Describe structures in plants and their roles in food production, support, water and nutrient transport, and reproduction.
Also assesses: SC.3.L.14.2 and SC.4.L.16.1
SC.4.L.16.4 Compare and contrast the major stages in the life cycles of Florida plants and animals, such as those that undergo complete and
incomplete metamorphosis, and flowering and non-flowering seed-bearing plants.
Supplemental Resources
Content
Amphibians – frog life cycle
Vertebrates and Invertebrates
Vertebrates
Title
Chapter 1 Active Art:
Life Cycle of a Frog
Vertebrates and Invertebrates
pp. 146-155
Biology4 Kids.com
Vertebrate Basics
Vertebrates
Animal Index - Vertebrates
Invertebrates
What is an invertebrate?
Invertebrates - arthropods
What is an Arthropod?
Animals, Biology, and Plants
Bill Nye Videos: Animals,
Biology, and Plants
Seed Germination
Life cycle of a flowering plant
Chapter 4 Game: Seed
Germination Journal
Plant Life Cycles - Flowering
Plants pp. 86-87
https://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com/snpapp/login/login.jsp
If not registered, click on the register button.
Enter the access code SFSCAL07FLEN05T and your school’s zip code.
Log in. Click on Take it to the Net. Select Games and the Life Science Unit A.
Gr. 4-5 ScienceSaurus Handbook
http://www.biology4kids.com/files/vert_main.html
http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/Science/Animals/AnimalIndexV.htm
http://Biology4Kids.com
http://www.butterflyschool.org
http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/SqoolTube_Videos/Science/Bill_Nye_Videos/
https://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com/snpapp/login/login.jsp
Log in. Click on Take it to the Net. Select Games and the Life Science Unit A.
Gr. 4-5 ScienceSaurus Handbook
http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspDetail&ResourceID=635
Flower Pollination
Gizmo: Flower Pollination
Interactive simulation of the
flowering plant
Life Cycles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/9_10/life_cycles.shtml
The life cycle of a plant.
The Life Cycle of a Plant
http://www.ehow.com/how_5873053_teach-life-cycle-plant.html
The life cycle of a plant.
From Seed to Plant
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1480.html
Germination
Gizmo: Germination
Photographs and descriptions of
Florida plants
Information in field guide format
on forest trees
Florida’s Nature
http://www.floridasnature.com/index.htm
Forest Trees of Florida
http://flame.fl-dof.com/apps/trees.php
http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspDetail&ResourceID=637
Plants respond to stimuli
How do sunlight and shade
affect the color of a plant’s
leaves?
Plants
Plants and Life on Earth
http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/earth.html
Life cycles - plants
Life cycle of Plants
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/9_10/life_cycles.shtml
Plants
The Great Plant Escape
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/gpe/
http://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com/ebook/products/0-328-10157-5/pdfs/lz_g5_ua_c04_1.pdf
Reproduction of Flowering
Plants
Exploratorium Science of
Gardening: The Secret Lives of
Flowers
Identifying parts of a flower:
Life Cycle of a Plant
Lessons and Resource Materials
Florida Agriculture in the
Classroom, Inc.
http://www.flagintheclassroom.com/lessons.html
Videos and activities
correlated to the FL NGSSS
The Happy Scientist FL.
Grade 5 (Subscription of $20)
http://thehappyscientist.com/ss-fl-g5
http://www.exploratorium.edu/gardening/bloom/secret_life_of_flowers/index.html
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities.html
OTHER GREAT LINKS:
TOPIC 13--PLANTS & ANIMALS ONLINE INTERACTIVE LINKS & RESOURCES
THE LIFE CYCLE OF A PLANT>>Interactive plants/flower link detailing SEED GROWTH, LIFE CYCLE OF A PLANT, SEED
DISPERSAL, PLANT/FLOWER IDENTIFICATION.
http://www2.bgfl.org/bgfl2/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/science/plants_pt2/index.htm
GERMINATION, SEED LIFE CYCLE, FLOWERING PLANTS
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/Phase2delivery/Wales/Science/Keystage2/Lifeprocessesan/Lifecycles/Introduction/activity1pop.htm
CYCLES OF LIFE>>See the stages of the life cycle of a butterfly, frog, plant, apple tree
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/judi/life/activities/cycles/life_cycles.html
LIFE CYCLES – LIST OF DIFFERENT PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE CYCLES RESOURCES AND LINKS
http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/resources/elementary/2science.htm#8sol
INTERACTIVE ACTIVITY TO LABEL THE PARTS OF A PLANT AND FLOWER
http://www.neok12.com/diagram/Plants-01.htm
INTERACTIVE IDENTIFY TYPES OF PLANTS
http://www.neok12.com/quiz/PLANTS03
INTERACTIVE PHOTOSYNTHESIS QUIZ-MATCH TERMS WITH DESCRIPTION
http://www.neok12.com/quiz/PLANTS06
MULTIPLE RESOURCES ON CYLES OF LIFE
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/science/science2a.htm
INTERACTIVE VISUAL OF LIFE CYCLES OF DIFFERENT ANIMALS
http://www.vtaide.com/png/assess.htm
COMPLETE test on LIFE CYCLES—PLANTS, ANIMALS including HUMAN LIFE CYCLE
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/science/pdfs/15lifecycles.pdf