| 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) (D) |
observe and record life cycles of animals such as a chicken, frog, or fish. |
| 1 |
112.12 (b) (5) (A) |
classify objects by observable properties of the materials from which they are made such as larger and smaller, heavier and lighter, shape, color, and texture |
| 1 |
112.12 (b) (7) (B) |
identify and describe a variety of natural sources of water, including streams, lakes, and oceans |
| 1 |
112.12 (b) (9) |
the living environment is composed of relationships between organisms and the life cycles that occur. |
| 1 |
113.3. (1.6) (A) |
physical characteristics of places such as landforms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather; |
| 1 |
113.3. (1.6) (B) |
identify examples of and uses for natural resources in the community, state, and nation; and |
| 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 |
113.4. (2.6) |
locations and characteristics of places and regions. |
| 2 |
113.4. (2.7) |
physical characteristics of places/regions affect people's activities and settlement patterns. |
| 2 |
113.4. (2.7) (A) |
weather patterns, natural resources, seasonal patterns, and natural hazards affect activities and settlement patterns; and |
| 2 |
113.4. (2.7) (B) |
people depend on the physical environment, natural resources to satisfy their basic needs. |
| 2 |
113.4. (2.8) (A) |
identify ways in which people depend on the physical environment, including natural resources, to meet basic needs; |
| 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) (10) (C) |
how animals and plants undergo a series of orderly changes in their diverse life cycles such as tomato plants, frogs, and lady bugs. |
| 3 |
112.14. (b) (7) (D) |
explore the characteristics of natural resources that make them useful in products and materials such as clothing and furniture and how resources may be conserved. |
| 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) (10) (C) |
explore, illustrate, and compare life cycles in living organisms such as butterflies, beetles, radishes, or lima beans. |
| 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) (7) |
Earths surface is constantly changing and consists of useful resources. |
| 5 |
112.16. (b) (8) (A) |
differentiate between weather and climate |
| 5 |
112.16. (b) (9) |
there are relationships, systems, and cycles within environments. |
| 5 |
112.16. (b) (9) (A) |
observe the way organisms live and survive in their ecosystem by interacting with the living and non-living elements |
| K |
112.11 (b) (10) |
organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments. |
| 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. (C) |
begins to recognize patterns in their environment (e.g., day follows night, repeated phrases in storybooks, patterns in carpeting or clothing) |
| PK |
PK.2. (I) |
identifies similarities and differences among objects and organisms |
