Browse North Carolina State Standards

 Competency Goals:: 1: The learner will conduct investigations and build an understanding of plant growth and adaptations.
Objectives:
1.01: Observe and measure how the quantities and qualities of nutrients, light, and water in the environment affect plant growth. 1.02: Observe and describe how environmental conditions determine how well plants survive and grow in a particular environment. 1.03: Investigate and describe how plants pass through distinct stages in their life cycle including.
   Growth.
   Survival.
   Reproduction. 1.04: Explain why the number of seeds a plant produces depends on variables such as light, water, nutrients, and pollination. 1.05: Observe and discuss how bees pollinate flowers. 1.06: Observe, describe and record properties of germinating seeds.