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.E.1. | Describe some of the ways in which animals depend on plants and on each other. |
| 4 | SC-4.2.0.E.2. | Recognize and describe that each season has different weather conditions |
| 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.C.1.c | some likenesses between parents and offspring are inherited (such as eye color in humans, nest building in birds, or flower color in plants) and other likenesses are learned (such as language in humans ) |
| 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.F.1.a | Explain ways that individuals and groups of organisms interact with each other and their environment. |
| 5 | SC-5.3.0.A.1.a | features and behaviors of some of the plants and animals living in a familiar environment and explain ways that these organisms are well suited to their environment. |
| 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.c | Identify a feature that distinguishes animals that fly (as an example) from animals that cannot and examine a variety of animals that can fly to discover other similar features they might share. |
| 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.b | describe and compare living things found in other states such as Texas and Alaska to those found in Maryland. |
| 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.F.1.c | Describe ways that animals and plants found in each place interact with each other and with their environment. |
| 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-3.6.0.E.1.a | Distinguish factual from fictional information (anthropomorphic) |
