Butterfly

New York State Standards and Core Curriculum

Standard 4: Science
Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.

The Living Environment
Key Idea 4
The continuity of life is sustained through reproduction and development.

Performance Indicator
Students describe the major stages in the life cycles of selected plants and animals

Core Curriculum
Know a life cycle is the sequence of events, from birth to death, of an organism
Know the definition and process of germination

Know different ways in which plants reproduce
Know the changes plants go through from seed to mature plant

Know that life cycle stages of different organisms may be different (e.g. insects, plants, mammals, birds)
Know that metamorphosis is the transformation of an organism into adult form; know animals that exhibit
metamorphosis (e.g. caterpillar into a butterfly, tadpole into a frog)

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