Alignment to Standards for IL
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Early Elementary | 12.A.1a | Identify and describe the component parts of living things (e.g., birds have feathers; people have bones, blood, hair, skin) and their major functions. |
| Early Elementary | 12.A.1b | Categorize living organisms using a variety of observable features (e.g., size, color, shape, backbone). |
| Early Elementary | 12.B.1a | Describe and compare characteristics of living things in relationship to their environments. |
| Early Elementary | 12.B.1b | Describe how living things depend on one another for survival. |
| Early Elementary | 17.A.1b | characteristics and purposes of geographic representations including maps, globes, graphs, photographs, software, digital images and be able to locate specific places using each. |
| Late Elementary | 12.A.2a | Describe simple life cycles of plants and animals and the similarities and differences in their offspring. |
| Late Elementary | 12.A.2b | Categorize features as either inherited or learned (e.g., flower color or eye color is inherited; language is learned). |
| Late Elementary | 12.E.2a | Identify and explain natural cycles of the Earthês land, water and atmospheric systems (e.g., rock cycle, water cycle, weather patterns). |
| Late Elementary | 17.A.2b | Use maps and other geographic representations and instruments to gather information about people, places and environments. |
