ALTERNATE ASSESSMENT

1. Key Idea: Living things are both similar to and different from each other and nonliving things.
          Performance Indicators--Students:
• explore the characteristics of and differences between living and nonliving things

• identify simple life processes common to all living things

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2. Key Idea: Individual organisms and species change over time.
          Performance Indicators--Students:
• explore how living things change over their lifetime

• observe that differences within a species may give individuals an advantage in surviving

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3. Key Idea: The continuity of life is sustained through reproduction and development.
          Performance Indicators--Students:
• observe the major stages in the life cycles of selected plants and animals.

• observe evidence of growth, repair, and maintenance, such as nails, hair and bone, and the healing of cuts and bruises

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4. Key Idea: Organisms maintain a dynamic equilibrium that sustains life.
          Performance Indicators--Students:
• identify a few basic life functions of common living specimens (guppy, mealworm, gerbil).

• participate in activities that help promote good health and growth in humans

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5. Key Idea: Plants and animals depend on each other and their physical environment.
          Performance Indicators--Students:
• participate in activities that demonstrate how plants and animals, including humans, depend upon each other and the nonliving environment

• participate in activities that demonstrate the relationship of the sun as an energy source for living and nonliving cycles

6. Key Idea: Human decisions and activities have had a profound impact on the physical and living environment.
          Performance Indicators--Students:
• participate in activities which show how humans have changed their environment and the effects of those changes