Alignment to Standards for MD
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.A.1. | Compare and explain how external features of plants and animals help them survive in different environments. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.A.1.b | Compare similar features in some animals and plants and explain how each of these enables the organism to satisfy basic needs. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.A.1.c | an organisms external features contribute to its ability to survive in an environment. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.B.2. | Provide evidence that all organisms are made of parts that help them carry out the basic functions of life. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.B.2.a | humans and other animals have different body parts used to seek, find, and take in food. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.C.1. | Explain that there are differences among individuals in any population. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.C.1.a | plants and animals to identify ways that individuals are different from one another. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.E.1. | Describe some of the ways in which animals depend on plants and on each other. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.E.1.a | Examine organisms in a wide variety of environments to gather information on how animals satisfy their need for food. |
| 1 | SS-1.3.0.B.1. | Describe places in the environment using geographic characteristics |
| 1 | SS-1.3.0.B.1.a | Identify and describe physical characteristics of a place (physical features, climate, vegetation and animal life) |
| 2 | SC-2.3.0.D.1. | Observe and describe examples of variation (differences) among individuals of one kind within a population. |
| 2 | SC-2.3.0.D.1.a | individuals in familiar animal populations, cats or dogs, to identify how they look alike and how they are different. |
| 2 | SC-2.3.0.F.1. | Explain that organisms can grow and survive in many very different habitats. |
| 2 | SC-2.3.0.F.1.a | Investigate a variety of familiar and unfamiliar habitats and describe how animals and plants found there maintain their lives and survive to reproduce. |
| 2 | SC-2.3.0.F.1.b | Explain that organisms live in habitats that provide their basic needs: Food, Water, Air, Shelter |
| 2 | SS-2.3.0.B.1. | Classify places and regions in an environment using geographic characteristics |
| 2 | SS-2.3.0.B.1.b | Describe and classify regions using climate, vegetation, animal life, and natural/physical features |
| 3 | SC-3.2.0.C.1.d | Recognize and explain that an ocean floor is land covered by water. |
| 3 | SS-3.3.0.B.1.a | Compare places and regions using geographic features |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.A.1.a | a variety of animals or plants in both familiar and unfamiliar environments. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.D.1. | individuals of the same kind differ in their characteristics, and sometimes the differences give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.D.1.a | Describe ways in which organisms in one habitat differ from those in another habitat and consider how these differences help them survive and reproduce. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.D.1.b | Explain that the characteristics of an organism affect its ability to survive and reproduce. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.D.1.c | individuals in a group of the same kind of animals or plants to identify differences in characteristics, such as hearing ability in rabbits or keenness of vision in hawks that might give those individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.F.1.a | Explain ways that individuals and groups of organisms interact with each other and their environment. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.F.1b | Identify and describe the interactions of organisms present in a habitat: Competition for space, food, and water |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.F.1c | Identify and describe the interactions of organisms present in a habitat: Beneficial interactions: nesting, pollination, seed dispersal, oysters filtering as in the Chesapeake Bay, etc. |
| 5 | SC-5.3.0.A.1. | Explain the idea that in any particular environment, some kinds of plants and animals survive well, some less well, and some cannot survive at all. |
| 5 | SC-5.3.0.E.1. | Recognize that some source of energy is needed for all organisms to grow and survive. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.A.1.a | features (observable parts) of animals and plants that make some of them alike in the way they look and the things they do. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.A.1.d | Compare ideas about how the features of animals and plants affect what these animals are able to do. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.A.2.c | similarities in what both humans and other animals are able to do because they possess certain external features. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.D.1. | living things are found almost everywhere in the world and that there are somewhat different kinds of living things in different places. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.D.1.c | Explain that the external features of plants and animals affect how well they thrive in different kinds of places. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.E.1. | Develop an awareness of the relationship of features of living things and their ability to satisfy basic needs that support their growth and survival. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.E.1.a | Make observations of the features and behaviors of many different kinds of animals within an environment to identify and begin building a list of some of the basic needs these organisms share, such as water, air, etc. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.F.1. | Investigate a variety of familiar places where plants and animals live to describe the place and the living things found there. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.F.1.a | Describe observations of the place and some of the living things found there. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.F.1.c | Describe ways that animals and plants found in each place interact with each other and with their environment. |
| K | SC-K.6.0.B.1.b | Identify features of the natural environment that are not made by humans. |
| K | SS-K-3.0.B.1.a | Recognize physical features as landforms and bodies of water using photographs and pictures |
| K | SS-K-3.0.B.1.b | Identify land forms, such as mountains and hills, and bodies of water, such as oceans, rivers, and streams |
| PK | SC-PK.3.0.A.1.d | Identify some of the things that all animals do, such as eat, move around and explain how their features (observable parts) help them do these things. |
| PK | SS-PK-3.0.B.1.e | Discuss that places have natural/physical features such as mountains, rivers, and hills |
