Alignment to Standards for CT
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC:1.2 | Living things have different structures and behaviors that allow them to meet their basic needs. |
| 1 | SC:1.2.a/b5 | Compare and contrast information about animals and plants found in fiction and nonfiction (FCM) sources. |
| 3 | SC:3.2 | Organisms can survive and reproduce only in environments that meet their basic needs. |
| 3 | SC:3.2.a | Plants and animals have structures and behaviors that help them survive in different environments. |
| 3 | SC:3.2.a1 | Compare and contrast the external features and behaviors that enable different animals and plants to get food, water and sunlight; find mates; and be protected in specific land and water habitats. |
| 3 | SC:3.2.a2 | behaviors such as hibernation, dormancy and migration give species advantages for surviving unfavorable environmental conditions. |
| 3 | SC:3.2.a4 | Evaluate whether an adaptation gives a plant or animal a survival advantage in a given environment. |
| 3 | SC:3.3 | Earth materials have different physical and chemical properties. |
| 3 | SC:3.4 | Earth materials provide resources for all living things, but these resources are limited and should be conserved. |
| 4 | SC:4.2 | All organisms depend on the living and nonliving features of the environment for survival. |
| 4 | SC:4.2.a | When the environment changes, some organisms survive and reproduce, and others die or move to new locations. |
| 4 | SC:4.2.a5 | Distinguish between naturally occurring changes in ecosystems and those caused by human activity. |
| 4 | SC:4.2.a6 | Predict the effect an environmental change, such as drought or forest destruction, might have on the community of living things. |
| 4 | SC:4.3 | Water has a major role in shaping the Earthês surface. |
| K | SC:K.1.a3 | Classify organisms or objects by one and two observable properties and explain the rule used for sorting (e.g., size, color, shape, texture or flexibility). |
| K | SC:K.1.a6 | Count, order and sort objects by their observable properties.6. |
| K | SC:K.2 | Many different kinds of living things inhabit the Earth. |
| K | SC:K.2.a4 | similarities and differences between plants and animals. |
| K | SC:K.3 | Weather conditions vary daily and seasonally. |
| K | SC:K.3.a4 | Write, speak or draw ways that weather influences humans, other animals and plants. |
| K | SC:K.4.a | Humans select both natural and man-made materials to build shelters based on local climate conditions, properties of the materials, and their availability in the environment. |
| K-4 | SS K-4:10.a. | identify the types of physical systems and their characteristics that affect the Earthês surface |
| K-4 | SS K-4:10.f. | locate Earthês major physical and human features (including cities, countries, bodies of water, etc.) |
| K-4 | SS K-4:11.d. | locate Earthês major physical and human features (including cities, countries, bodies of water, etc.) |
| K-4 | SS K-4:12.c. | use maps, globes, graphs, models, computer programs and texts, as appropriate |
| K-4 | SS K-4:12.d. | explain how human and natural processes shape places |
| Pre-K | SC:PK.2 | Many different kinds of living things inhabit the Earth. |
| Pre-K | SC:PK.2.a.3 | distinguish between the characteristics of plants and animals. |
| Pre-K | SC:PK.3 | Weather conditions vary daily and seasonally. |
