Alignment to Standards for NC
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC:1.E.2 | Understand the physical properties of Earth materials that make them useful in different ways. |
| 1 | SC:1.L.1.2 | Give examples of how the needs of different plants and animals can be met by their environments in North Carolina or different places throughout the world. |
| 2 | SC:2.E.1 | Understand patterns of weather and factors that affect weather. |
| 2 | SC:2.E.1.3 | Compare weather patterns that occur over time and relate observable patterns to time of day and time of year. |
| 2 | SC:2.L.1 | Understand animal life cycles. |
| 2 | SC:2.L.1.1 | Summarize the life cycle of animals: birth, developing into an adult, reproducing, aging and death, |
| 2 | SC:2.L.1.2 | Compare life cycles of different animals such as, but not limited to, mealworms, ladybugs, crickets, guppies or frogs. |
| 2 | SC:2.L.2.1 | Identify ways in which many plants and animals closely resemble their parents in observed appearance and ways they are different. |
| 2 | SS:2-5.01 | Define geography and use geographic terms to describe landforms, bodies of water, weather, and climate. |
| 2 | SS:2-5.03 | Compare and contrast the physical features of communities and regions. |
| 2 | SS:2-5.06 | Identify and describe the people, vegetation, and animal life specific to certain regions and describe their interdependence. |
| 2 | SS:2-6.01 | Identify natural resources and cite ways people conserve and replenish natural resources. |
| 3 | SC:3.E.2.1 | Compare Earthês saltwater and freshwater features (including oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, and glaciers). |
| 3 | SC:3.E.2.2 | Compare Earthês land features (volcanoes, mountains, valleys, canyons, caverns, and islands) by using pictures, and maps. |
| 3 | SC:3.L.2.2 | Explain how environmental conditions determine how well plants survive and grow. |
| 4 | SC:4.L.1 | effects of environmental changes, adaptations and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats. |
| 4 | SC:4.L.1.2 | how animals meet their needs by using behaviors in response to information received from the environment. |
| 5 | SC:5.L.1 | structures and systems of organisms perform functions necessary for life. |
| 5 | SC:5.L.2 | Understand the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystem. |
| 5 | SC:5.L.2.1 | Compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems, including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests, and grasslands). |
| 5 | SC:5.L.2.2 | Classify the organisms within an ecosystem according to the function they serve: producers, consumers, or decomposers (biotic factors). |
| 5 | SC:5.L.2.3 | Infer the effects that may result from the interconnected relationship of plants and animals to their ecosystem. |
| 5 | SC:5.L.3 | Understand why organisms differ from or are similar to their parents based on the characteristics of the organism. |
| 5 | SC:5.L.3.2 | Give examples of likenesses that are inherited and some that are not. |
| 5 | SS:5-1.01 | location of major landforms, bodies of water, and natural resources in the United States and other countries of North America. |
| K | SC:K.E.1 | Understand change and observable patterns of weather that occur from day to day and throughout the year. |
| K | SC:K.E.1.1 | Infer that change is something that happens to many things in the environment based on observations made using one or more of their senses. |
| K | SC:K.E.1.3 | Compare weather patterns that occur from season to season. |
| K | SC:K.L.1 | Compare characteristics of animals that make them alike and different from other animals and nonliving things. |
| K | SC:K.P.2.1 | Classify objects by observable physical properties (including size, color, shape, texture, weight and flexibility). |
