Alignment to Standards for VT
Grade | Number | Standard |
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1,2 | H&SS1-2:10c | Measuring calendar time by days, weeks, and months (e.g., How old are you?). |
1,2 | S1-2:30 | the parts that make up living things (i.e., roots, stems, leaves, flowers, legs, antennae, tail, shell). |
1,2 | S1-2:30a. | Living things (plants and animals) are made of parts that enable survival. |
1,2 | S1-2:31a. | All organisms undergo stages of development that include being born, developing into adulthood, reproducing and dying. |
1,2 | S1-2:31b. | Most organisms come from male and female parents. |
1,2 | S1-2:48b. | There are cyclical changes that we see throughout the seasons that can be observed and recorded. |
2,3 | H&SS3-4:10d | Measuring calendar time by days, weeks, months, years, decades, and centuries (e.g., How old is your town?). |
2,3 | S3-4:30 | Explaining how the physical structure/characteristic of an organism allows it to survive and defend itself (e.g., The coloring of a fiddler crab allows it to camouflage itself in the sand and grasses of its environment so that it will be protected from pr |
2,3 | S3-4:30a | Organisms have physical characteristics that help them to survive in their environment. These structures enable an organism to: defend itself, obtain food, reproduce, eliminate waste. |
2,3 | S3-4:31 | Investigating and describing a variety of plant and animal life cycles. |
2,3 | S3-4:31a. | Although all organisms have common stages of development, details of a life cycle are different for different organisms. |
2,3 | S3-4:36 | Explaining how one organism depends upon another organism to survive. |
2,3 | S3-4:36a. | Organisms interact with one another in various ways besides providing food Many plants depend on animals for carrying their pollen to other plants for fertilizing their flowers). |
2,3 | S3-4:40 | Describing similarities that are inherited from a biological parent. |
2,3 | S3-4:48.1a. | Weather changes from day to day and over the seasons. Weather can be described by measurable quantities (such as temperature, wind direction and speed, precipitation and air pressure). |
PK-K | SPK-K:38a. | Some living things (organisms) are identified as plants or animals. |