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 | 12.E.1b | Identify and describe patterns of weather and seasonal change. |
| Early Elementary | 13.B.1d | Identify and describe ways that science and technology affect peopleês everyday lives (e.g., transportation, medicine, agriculture, sanitation, communication occupations). |
| 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.2b | Categorize features as either inherited or learned (e.g., flower color or eye color is inherited; language is learned). |
| Late Elementary | 12.B.2b | Identify physical features of plants and animals that help them live in different environments (e.g., specialized teeth for eating certain foods, thorns for protection, insulation for cold temperature). |
| Late Elementary | 12.E.2b | Describe short-term/long-term interactions of the Earthês components: earthquakes, types of erosion. |
| Late Elementary | 13.B.2a | Explain how technology is used in science for a variety of purposes |
| Late Elementary | 13.B.2b | Describe the effects on society of scientific and technological innovations (e.g., antibiotics, steam engine, digital computer). |
| Late Elementary | 13.B.2c | Identify and explain ways that science and technology influence the lives and careers of people. |
| Late Elementary | 17.A.2b | Use maps and other geographic representations and instruments to gather information about people, places and environments. |
| Late Elementary | 17.C.2a | Describe how natural events in the physical environment affect human activities |
