The Abyss (4th)
The Mission
Storyline
3-Dimensional Science
Phenomenon
Sea creatures in the Abyssal Zone have unique adaptations that help them survive and thrive in a harsh environment.
Science and Engineering Practices
Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
Construct an explanation of observed relationships.
Use evidence to construct or support an explanation or design a solution to a problem.
Identify the evidence that supports particular points in an explanation.
Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
Read and comprehend grade-appropriate complex texts and/or other reliable media to summarize and obtain scientific and technical ideas and describe how they are supported by evidence.
Compare and/or combine across complex texts and/or other reliable media to support the engagement in other scientific and/or engineering practices.
Communicate scientific and/or technical information orally and/or in written formats.
Crosscutting Concepts
Cause and Effect
Students routinely identify and test causal relationships and use these relationships to explain change. They understand events that occur together with regularity might or might not signify a cause and effect relationship.
Disciplinary Core Ideas
LS3.B: Variation of Traits
Different organisms vary in how they look and function because they have different inherited information; the environment also affects the traits that an organism develops.
LS3.A: Inheritance of Traits
Different organisms vary in how they look and function because they have different inherited information; the environment also affects the traits that an organism develops.
LS4.C: Adaptation
Particular organisms can only survive in particular environments. Populations of organisms live in a variety of habitats. Change in those habitats affects the organisms living there.