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Concept Statement: Show Concept Overview
2 Plants and animals have structures for respiration, digestion, waste disposal, and transport of materials.
Over-All Rating: In-Depth coverage of this concept.
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Text includes a large amount of material that does not directly relate to the standards. Extraneous concepts and terms are often highlighted and illustrated. |
Features that help student learning:
Text teaches the big concept that cells combine to form tissues that combine to form organs that combine to form body systems that combine to form a whole organism. The structures for respiration, digestion, waste disposal, and transport of materials are all examples that illustrate this concept of systems made of parts that are themselves systems made of parts.
Investigations where students compare structures of vascular and nonvascular plants teach the standard well. They also incorporate Investigation & Experimentation standards for this grade level.
Features that do not help student learning:
Text includes a large amount of material that does not directly relate to the standards. In particular, Chapter 1, Lesson 3 (A22-A33); Chapter 2, Lessons 1 and 2 (A34-A47); Pages A80-A93; and Chapter 4, Lessons 2, 3, and 4 (A108-A136) but include activity on page A132.
Even within a lesson that covers a standard, the text often has material that is extraneous, covering concepts and terms that are in neither the standards nor the framework. These extraneous concepts and terms are often highlighted, illustrated, and bolded, which might give the mistaken impression that they are important for teaching the standard. Examples include distinguishing active and passive transport, and structures of the excretory system such as the urethra and nephrons.
Ratings for Standards - Harcourt:
| 2 Plants and animals have structures for respiration, digestion, waste disposal, and transport of materials. |
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| 2a Students know many multicellular organisms have specialized structures to support the transport of materials. |
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| 2b Students know how blood circulates through the heart chambers, lungs, and body and how carbon dioxide (CO2) and oxygen (O2) are exchanged in the lungs and tissues. |
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| 2c Students know the sequential steps of digestion and the roles of teeth and the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and colon in the function of the digestive system. |
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| 2d Students know the role of the kidney in removing cellular waste from blood and converting it into urine, which is stored in the bladder. |
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| 2e Students know how sugar, water, and minerals are transported in a vascular plant. |
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| 2f Students know plants use carbon dioxide (CO2) and energy from sunlight to build molecules of sugar and release oxygen. |
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| 2g Students know plant and animal cells break down sugar to obtain energy, a process resulting in carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (respiration). |
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