Alignment to Standards for SC
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | SC:2-2.2 | Classify animals (including mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, and insects) according to their physical characteristics. |
| 2 | SC:2-2.4 | Summarize the interdependence between animals and plants as sources of food and shelter. |
| 3 | SC:3-2.2 | Explain how physical and behavioral adaptations allow organisms to survive (including hibernation, defense, locomotion, movement, food obtainment, and camouflage for animals and seed dispersal, color, and response to light for plants). |
| 4 | SC:4-2.1 | Classify organisms into major groups (including plants or animals, flowering or nonflowering plants, and vertebrates [fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals] or invertebrates) according to their physical characteristics. |
| 4 | SC:4-2.5 | Explain how an organisms patterns of behavior are related to its environment (including the kinds and the number of other organisms present, the availability of food and other resources, and the physical characteristics of the environment). |
| K | SC:K-2.2 | Identify examples of organisms and nonliving things. |
