| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|
| 1 |
112.12 (b) (10) |
organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments. |
| 1 |
112.12 (b) (10) (A) |
external characteristics of an animal are related to where it lives, how it moves, and what it eats |
| 1 |
112.12 (b) (9) |
the living environment is composed of relationships between organisms and the life cycles that occur. |
| 1 |
112.12 (b) (9) (C) |
interdependence among living organisms such as energy transfer through food chains and animals using plants for shelter. |
| 1 |
113.3. (1.5) |
The student understands the purpose of maps and globes. |
| 1 |
113.3. (1.6) (A) |
physical characteristics of places such as landforms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather; |
| 2 |
112.13. (b) (10) (A) |
compare how the physical characteristics and behaviors of animals help them meet their basic needs such as fins help fish move and balance in the water |
| 2 |
112.13. (b) (9) |
living organisms have basic needs that must be met for them to survive within their environment. |
| 2 |
112.13. (b) (9) (A) |
identify the basic needs of plants and animals |
| 2 |
112.13. (b) (9) (C) |
ways living organisms depend on each other and on their environments such as food chains |
| 2 |
113.4. (2.10) (C) |
trace the development of a product from a natural resource to a finished product. |
| 2 |
113.4. (2.17) (D) |
sequence and categorize information; and |
| 2 |
113.4. (2.2) |
The student understands the concepts of time and chronology. |
| 2 |
113.4. (2.2) (B) |
use vocabulary related to chronology, including past, present, and future; |
| 2 |
113.4. (2.5) |
uses simple geographic tools such as maps, globes, and photographs. |
| 2 |
113.4. (2.5) (A) |
use symbols, find locations, and determine directions on maps and globes; and |
| 2 |
113.4. (2.6) |
locations and characteristics of places and regions. |
| 2 |
113.4. (2.6) (A) |
identify major landforms and bodies of water, including continents and oceans, on maps and globes; |
| 3 |
112.14. (b) (10) |
organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that help them survive within their environments. |
| 3 |
112.14. (b) (10) (A) |
explore how structures and functions of plants and animals allow them to survive in a particular environment |
| 3 |
112.14. (b) (10) (B) |
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 |
| 3 |
112.14. (b) (7) |
Earth consists of natural resources and its surface is constantly changing. |
| 3 |
112.14. (b) (7) (B) |
rapid changes in Earths surface such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and landslides |
| 3 |
112.14. (b) (7) (C) |
identify and compare different landforms, including mountains, hills, valleys, and plains |
| 3 |
112.14. (b) (9) |
organisms have characteristics that help them survive and can describe patterns, cycles, systems, and relationships within the environments. |
| 3 |
112.14. (b) (9) (A) |
physical characteristics of environments and how they support populations and communities within an ecosystem |
| 3 |
112.14. (b) (9) (B) |
identify and describe the flow of energy in a food chain and predict how changes in a food chain affect the ecosystem such as removal of frogs from a pond or bees from a field |
| 3 |
112.14. (b) (9) (C) |
describe environmental changes such as floods and droughts where some organisms thrive and others perish or move to new locations. |
| 3 |
113.5. (3.16) (B) |
sequence and categorize information; |
| 3 |
113.5. (3.4) (C) |
describe the effects of physical and human processes in shaping the landscape; and |
| 3 |
113.5. (3.5) (A) |
use cardinal and intermediate directions to locate places such as the Amazon River, Himalayan Mountains, and Washington D.C. on maps and globes; |
| 4 |
112.15. (b) (10) |
organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that help them survive within their environment. |
| 4 |
112.15. (b) (10) (A) |
explore how adaptations enable organisms to survive in their environment such as comparing birds beaks and leaves on plants |
| 4 |
112.15. (b) (7) (B) |
slow changes to Earths surface caused by weathering, erosion, and deposition from water, wind, and ice |
| 4 |
112.15. (b) (9) |
living organisms within an ecosystem interact with one another and with their environment. |
| 4 |
112.15. (b) (9)(B) |
describe the flow of energy through food webs, beginning with the Sun, and predict how changes in the ecosystem affect the food web such as a fire in a forest. |
| 5 |
112.16. (b) (10) |
organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that help them survive within their environments. |
| 5 |
112.16. (b) (10) (A) |
compare the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive such as hooves on prairie animals or webbed feet in aquatic animals |
| 5 |
112.16. (b) (10) (B) |
differentiate between inherited traits of plants and animals such as spines on a cactus or shape of a beak and learned behaviors such as an animal learning tricks or a child riding a bicycle |
| 5 |
112.16. (b) (7) |
Earths surface is constantly changing and consists of useful resources. |
| 5 |
112.16. (b) (9) |
there are relationships, systems, and cycles within environments. |
| K |
111.12 (K.11) |
uses time to describe, compare, and order events and situations. |
| K |
111.12 (K.11) (B) |
is expected to sequence events (up to three). |
| K |
111.12 (K.2) |
describes order of events or objects. |
| K |
111.12 (K.2) (A) |
is expected to use language such as before or after to describe relative position in a sequence of events or objects. |
| K |
112.11 (b) (10) |
organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments. |
| K |
112.11 (b) (9) |
plants and animals have basic needs and depend on the living and nonliving things around them for survival. |
| K |
112.11 (b) (9) (B) |
examine evidence that living organisms have basic needs such as food, water, and shelter for animals and air, water, nutrients, sunlight, and space for plants. |
| K |
113.2. (K.15) (C) |
sequence and categorize information; and |
| K |
113.2. (K.16) (B) |
create and interpret visuals including pictures and maps. |
| K |
113.2. (K.3) (A) |
place events in chronological order; and |
| K |
113.2. (K.3) (B) |
use vocabulary related to time and chronology, including before, after, next, first, and last. |
| K |
113.2. (K.5) (A) |
identify the physical characteristics of places such as landforms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather; and |
| PK |
PK.1. (J) |
compares objects and organisms and identifies similarities and differences |
| PK |
PK.1. (K) |
sorts objects and organisms into groups and begins to describe how groups were organized |
| PK |
PK.2. (B) |
describes properties of objects and characteristics of living things |
| PK |
PK.2. (F) |
begins to recognize that living things have similar needs for water, food, and air |
| PK |
PK.2. (I) |
identifies similarities and differences among objects and organisms |
