Alignment to Standards for MD
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC-1.2.0.E.2. | Describe that some events in nature have repeating patterns. |
| 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.A.1.d | Classify organisms according to one selected feature, such as body covering, and identify other similarities shared by organisms within each group formed. |
| 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.B.2.c | Describe some parts of plants and describe what they do for the plant. |
| 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-1.4.0.A.2.a | Give examples of natural and human resources used in production, such as making butter, making ice cream, and building houses |
| 2 | SC-2.2.0.A.1. | Describe and compare properties of a variety of Earth materials. |
| 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-2.6.0.A.1. | Recognize and explain how Earths natural resources from the natural environment are used to meet human needs. |
| 2 | SC-2.6.0.A.1.a | Describe natural resources as something from the natural environment that is used to meet ones needs. |
| 2 | SC-2.6.0.A.1.b | Identify water, air, soil, minerals, animals, and plants as basic natural resources. |
| 2 | SC-2.6.0.A.1.c | Explain that food, fuels, and fibers are produced from basic natural resources. |
| 2 | SC-2.6.0.A.1.d | Identify ways that humans use Earths natural resources to meet their needs. |
| 2 | SS-2.3.0.B.1.b | Describe and classify regions using climate, vegetation, animal life, and natural/physical features |
| 3 | SC-3.4.0.A.1. | Identify ways to classify objects using supporting evidence from investigations of observable properties. |
| 3 | SC-3.4.0.A.1.a | Classify objects based on their observable properties. |
| 3 | SC-3.4.0.A.1.b | Provide reasons for placing the objects into groups. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.A.1. | Explain how animals and plants can be grouped according to observable 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.A.1.d | Describe what classifying tells us about the relatedness among the animals or plants placed within any group. |
| 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. | 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.E.1.c | Identify the things that are essential for plants to grow and survive. |
| 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.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. |
| 5 | SC-5.3.0.E.1.b | Plants use sunlight to make food |
| 5 | SC-5.3.0.E.1.e | most animals food can be traced back to plants.\ |
| 5 | SC-5.6.0.A.1. | Recognize and explain how renewable and nonrenewable natural resources are used by humans in Maryland to meet basic needs. |
| 5 | SC-5.6.0.A.1.b | Describe how humans use renewable natural resources, such as plants, soil, water, animals. |
| K | SC-K.2.0.A.1. | Investigate objects and materials in the environment. |
| K | SC-K.2.0.A.1.c | objects and materials, such as trees, rocks, and hills on Earths surface can change. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.A.1. | familiar animals and plants: patterns of similarity and difference among them. |
| 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.b | features that make some animals and some plants very different from one another. |
| 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. | 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.a | Observe, describe, and give examples and describe the many kinds of living things found in different places 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.E.1.c | Make observations of the features of many different kinds of plants within an environment to identify and begin building a list of some of the basic needs these organisms share, such as water, light, etc. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.E.1.d | Describe the way that most plants manage to bring water from the environment into the plant. |
| 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.c | Describe ways that animals and plants found in each place interact with each other and with their environment. |
| K | SC-K.4.0.A.1. | Compare the observable properties of a variety of objects and the materials they are made of using evidence from investigations. |
| K | SC-K.4.0.A.1.b | Based on data, describe the observable properties, such as size, shape, color, and texture of a variety of objects. |
| K | SC-K.4.0.A.1.c | Identify and compare the properties of materials objects are made of and the properties of the objects. |
| K | SS-K-4.0.A.2.c | natural resources, such as water, trees, and plants are used to make products |
| PK | SC-PK.3.0.A.1. | familiar plants and animals to describe how they are alike and how they are different. |
| PK | SC-PK.3.0.A.1.b | some plants are alike in the way they look and in the things they do. |
| 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 | SC-PK.4.0.A.1. | Use evidence from investigations to describe the observable properties of a variety of objects. |
| PK | SC-PK.4.0.A.1.b | Based on data gathered, describe the observable properties of familiar objects (size, shape, color, and texture). |
| PK-2 | SC-PK-2.1.0.A.1.g | Use whole numbers and simple, everyday fractions in ordering, counting, identifying, measuring, and describing things and experiences. |
| PK-2 | SC-PK-2.1.0.C.1.f | Describe and compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion. |
| PK-4 | SS-PK&K.-4.0.A.2. | Identify that materials/resources are used to make products |
