Alignment to Standards for DC
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC.1.4. | Different types of plants and animals inhabit the Earth. |
| 1 | SC.1.4.1. | Explain that most living things need food, water, and air. |
| 1 | SC.1.4.3. | animals eat plants and/or other animals for food. |
| 1 | SC.1.4.4. | animals and plants are living things that grow, reproduce, and need food, air, and water. |
| 2 | G 2.1.1. | Understand how maps and globes depict geographical information in different ways. (G) |
| 2 | SC.2.3.7. | Cite specific examples of how human beings protect themselves from adverse weather conditions through different means. |
| 2 | SC.2.6. | Plants and animals have structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction. |
| 2 | SC.2.6.1. | visible, external features of plants and animals and describe how these features help them live in different environments. |
| 2 | SC.2.7.1. | Observe and describe how animals may use plants, or even other animals, for shelter and nesting. |
| 2 | SC.2.7.2. | food for almost all kinds of animals can be traced through a food web back to green plants. |
| 2 | SC.2.7.3. | plants and animals both need to take in water, animals need to take in food, and green plants need light. |
| 2 | SC.2.7.4. | materials in nature, such as grass, twigs, sticks, and leaves, can be recycled and used again, sometimes in different forms, as birds do in making their nests. |
| 2 | SC.2.7.6. | animals and plants sometimes cause changes in their surroundings, some of these changes are easy to see, some are very small and hard to recognize, even though they can be very important. |
| 2 | SC.2.8. | Many different types of plants and animals inhabit the Earth. |
| 2 | SC.2.8.1. | living things are found almost everywhere in the world in habitats such as the oceans, rivers, rain forests, mountain ranges, arctic tundra, farms, cities, and other environments. Recognize that some habitats are extreme, such a |
| 2 | SC.2.8.2. | the numbers and types of living things can vary greatly from place to place. |
| 3 | G 3.1.2. | Identify and locate major physical features and natural characteristics (e.g., bodies of water, land forms, natural resources, and weather) in Washington, DC. (G) |
| 3 | SC.3.5.1. | living things can be sorted into groups in many ways using various properties, such as how they look, where they live, and how they act, in order to decide which things belong to which group. |
| 3 | SC.3.7.1. | Explain that people need water, food, air, waste removal, and a particular range of temperatures, just as other animals do, although different animals can tolerate very different ranges of temperature and other features of their surroundings. |
| 3 | SC.3.7.4. | Recognize that food provides energy as well as materials for growth, maintenance, and repair of body parts. |
| 4 | SC.4.3.1. | Explain how waves, wind, water, and glacial ice shape and reshape Earthês land surface by eroding rock and soil in some areas and depositing them in other areas. |
| 4 | SC.4.3.2. | Explain how the surface of the Earth changes over various time scales due to processes, such as erosion and weathering, landslides, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and mountain building. |
| 4 | SC.4.4.5. | Describe the different layers of the Earth, including the crust, mantle, and core. |
| 4 | SC.4.7. | All organisms need energy and matter to live and grow. |
| 4 | SC.4.7.1. | Explain that organisms interact with one another in various ways, such as providing food, pollination, and seed dispersal. |
| 5 | SC.5.6.1. | objects can move with a very wide range of speeds, with some moving very slowly and some moving too quickly for people to see them. |
| 5 | SC.5.8. | Many characteristics of an organism are inherited from the parents, but others result from the influence of the environment. |
| 5 | SC.5.8.2. | List some characteristics of plants and animals that are fully inherited (e.g., form of flower, shape of leaves) and others that are affected by the climate or environmental conditions (e.g., browning of leaves from too much sun, language spoken). |
| 5 | SC.5.9. | Adaptations in physical structure or behavior may improve an organismês chance for survival. |
| 5 | SC.5.9.1. | in any particular environment, some kinds of plants and animals survive well, some do not survive as well, and some cannot survive at all. |
| 5 | SC.5.9.3. | Explain how organisms can cause changes in their environment to ensure survival, and how these changes may affect the ecosystem (the living and nonliving components of the environment). |
| 5 | SC.5.9.5. | changes in an organismês habitat are sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful, and how changes in the environment (drought, cold) have caused some plants and animals to die, migrate, or become extinct. |
| 5 | SC.5.9.7. | Recognize that some behaviors are instinctive (turtles burying their eggs) and others learned (wolfês hunting skills). |
| K | G K.1. 2. | Demonstrate familiarity with what a map is and what a globe is. (G) |
| K-2 | G K-2.1. | Students use map and globe skills to determine the locations of places. |
| K-2 | H K-2.3. | Students distinguish fact from fiction. |
