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.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.C.2. | Recognize that all living things have offspring, usually with two parents involved. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.C.2.a | Examine a variety of living things and their offspring and describe what each parent and offspring looks like. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.C.2.b | Identify similarities and differences among the offspring and between the offspring and each parent. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.C.2.c | Are parents and offspring more similar than they are different? |
| 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 | SC-1.3.0.E.1.c | Some animals eat only other animals |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.E.1.d | Some animals eat both plants and other animals |
| 1 | SC-1.6.0.B.1. | Recognize that caring about the environment is an important human activity. |
| 1 | SC-1.6.0.B.1.a | Recognize and describe that individual and group actions, such as recycling, help the environment. |
| 1 | SC-1.6.0.B.1.c | Give reasons why people should take care of their environments. |
| 1 | SS-1.3.0.D.1.b | Describe why and how people protect the environment |
| 2 | SC-2.2.0.A.1.d | Changes caused by humans and other animals |
| 2 | SC-2.3.0.C.1. | Explain that there are identifiable stages in the life cycles (growth, reproduction, and death) of plants and animals. |
| 2 | SC-2.3.0.C.1.c | Given pictures of stages in the life cycle of a plant or an animal, determine the sequence of the stages in the life cycle. |
| 2 | SC-2.3.0.C.1.d | Provide examples, using observations and information from readings that life cycles differ from species to species. |
| 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.B.1. | Recognize and describe that the activities of individuals or groups of individuals can affect the environment. |
| 2 | SC-2.6.0.B.1.a | Identify and describe that individual and group actions, such as turning off lights, conserving water, recycling, picking up litter, or joining an organization can extend the natural resources of the environment. |
| 2 | SS-2.3.0.B.1.b | Describe and classify regions using climate, vegetation, animal life, and natural/physical features |
| 2 | SS-2.3.0.D.1.b | Describe how and why people protect or fail to protect the environment |
| 3 | SS-3.3.0.D.1.b | Describe why and how people make decisions about protecting the environment |
| 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.b | Classify a variety of animals and plants according to their observable features and provide reasons for placing them into different groups. |
| 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.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.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. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.F.1d | Identify and describe the interactions of organisms present in a habitat: Roles within food chains and webs: scavengers, decomposers, producers, consumers. |
| 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.A.1.b | Based on information about the features and behaviors of animals and plants from very different environments describe reasons that they might not survive if their environment changed or if they were moved from one environment to another. |
| 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.c | Plants and animals use food for energy and growth |
| 5 | SC-5.6.0.B.1.b | Identify and describe that individuals and groups assess and manage risk to the environment differently. |
| 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.C.1. | Observe, describe and compare the life cycles of different kinds of animals and plants. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.C.1.a | Identify and draw pictures that show what an animal (egg to frog) and a plant (seed to tree) looks like at each stage of its life cycle. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.C.1.b | Describe and compare the changes that occur in the life cycle of two different animals, such as a frog and a puppy and two different plants, such as a rosebush and a maple tree. |
| 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.b | Describe ways that people and other animals manage to bring the things they need from their environment into their bodies. |
| 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. |
| 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.a | how some animals 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.3.0.C.1. | Observe, describe and compare different kinds of animals and their offspring |
| PK | SC-PK.3.0.C.1.a | Recognize and describe the similarities and differences among familiar animals and their offspring. |
| PK | SC-PK.3.0.C.1.b | Describe how offspring are very much, but not exactly, like their parents and like one another. |
