Super STAAR

Related Science TEKS

(3.10A) Adaptations
The student is expected to explore how structures and functions of plants and animals allow them to survive in a particular environment.

(3.10B) Inherited Traits and Learned Behaviors
The student is expected to explore that some characteristics of organisms are inherited such as the number of limbs on an animal or flower color and recognize that some behaviors are learned in response to living in a certain environment such as animals using tools to get food.

Related Math TEKS

3.7A  The student is expected to generate a table of paired numbers based on a real-life situation such as insects and legs.

3.13A  The student is expected to collect, organize, record, and display data in pictographs and bar graphs where each picture or cell might represent more than one piece of data.

3.13B  The student is expected to interpret information from pictographs and bar graphs.

3.13C  The student is expected to use data to describe events as more likely than, less likely than, or equally likely as.

3.14B   The student is expected to solve problems that incorporate understanding the problem, making a plan, carrying out the plan, and evaluating the solution for reasonableness.

3.14C   The student is expected to select or develop an appropriate problem-solving plan or strategy, including drawing a picture, looking for a pattern, systematic guessing and checking, acting it out, making a table, working a simpler problem, or working backwards to solve a problem.

3.14D    The student is expected to use tools such as real objects, manipulatives, and technology to solve problems.

3.15A    The student is expected to explain and record observations using objects, words, pictures, numbers, and technology.