Inheritance and Life Cycles (Next Generation Science Standards)

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This product was made following the Next Generation Science Standards:
1-LS3 Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
3-LS1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
3-LS3 Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

With it, teachers can help students understand the concept of inheritance.
Also, it shows that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

The product can be used to brainstorm around some topics and realize that some traits are inherited and others are also influenced by the environment.

Waves and their Applications

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This product was designed to help students realize that light and sound travel from one source to a receptor as waves.

It was made following the Next Generation Science Standards:

1-PS4 Waves and their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

4-PS4 Waves and their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

Students will have to think it through and not just wait for the knowledge.