Description
Theme: Students recognize that there are many kinds of animals on Earth, and that animals have a life cycle just as other living things do.
Science Explorations: Students identify animals as living things with common characteristics. These include ways of moving (walking, flying, swimming}, ways of sensing the world (seeing, hearing, smelling), and ways of eating (plant-eating or animal-eating).
Process Skills: Students observe patterns of change, and compare and sort objects according to similarities and differences.