How Do Living Things Stay Safe And Grow?

How Do Living Things Stay Safe and Grow?  is part of Smithsonian Science for the Classroom, a new curriculum series by the Smithsonian Science Education Center. It is aligned to a group of grade 1 standards. It has a focus on life science with a secondary focus on engineering. In this module, students:

• Use observations of adult plants and animals as evidence that offspring are very similar to, but not exactly like their parents. 
• Obtain information from text, images, video, and a computer game to determine how patterns of behavior help offspring survive. 
• Explore how external parts of plants and animals help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. 
• Mimic external parts of plants and animals in designing a tool to solve a human problem.
• Apply knowledge of behaviors and external parts to “survive” in a hypothetical game.

Below are digital resources that support teaching of this module.