Alignment to Standards for VA
Grade | Number | Standard |
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1 | SC-1.5b | animal characteristics:body coverings, body shape, appendages, and methods of movement) |
1 | SC-1.5c | animal characteristics. Key concepts include other characteristics (wild/tame, water homes/land homes). |
1 | SC-1.7b | Seasonal changes: Key concepts include how temperature, light, and precipitation bring about changes in animals (behaviors, hibernation, migration, body covering, and habitat); and |
1 | SC-1.7c | Seasonal changes: Key concepts include how temperature, light, and precipitation bring about changes in people (dress, recreation, and work). |
2 | SC-2.5b | living things are part of a system. Key concepts include habitats change over time due to many influences. |
2 | SC-2.7a | Seasonal changes: Key concepts include effects on growth and behavior of living things (migration, hibernation, camouflage, adaptation, dormancy); and |
3 | SC-3.4a | animal adaptations: methods of gathering and storing food, finding shelter, defending themselves, and rearing young; |
3 | SC-3.4b | animal adaptations: hibernation, migration, camouflage, mimicry, instinct, and learned behavior. |
3 | SC-3.8a | Key concepts include patterns of natural events (day and night, seasonal changes, phases of the moon, and tides); and |
4 | SC-4.5a | plants and animals in an ecosystem Key concepts include behavioral and structural adaptations; |
K | SC-K.6c | Key concepts include offspring of plants and animals are similar but not identical to their parents and to one another. |
K | SC-K.8a | simple patterns in daily life. Key concepts include weather observations; |