| 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) (10) (C) |
compare ways that young animals resemble their parents |
| 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) (A) |
sort and classify living and nonliving things based upon whether or not they have basic needs and produce offspring |
| 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. (1.6) (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. (2.6) |
locations and characteristics of places and regions. |
| 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) (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 |
| 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) (9) |
living organisms within an ecosystem interact with one another and with their environment. |
| 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) (9) |
there are relationships, systems, and cycles within environments. |
| 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) (A) |
differentiate between living and nonliving things based upon whether they have basic needs and produce offspring |
| 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.5) (A) |
identify the physical characteristics of places such as landforms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather; and |
| PK |
PK.2. (D) |
identifies animals and plants as living things |
| PK |
PK.2. (E) |
groups organisms and objects as living or nonliving and begins to identify things people have built |
| PK |
PK.2. (F) |
begins to recognize that living things have similar needs for water, food, and air |
