Alignment to Standards for TX
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 112.12 (b) (10) | organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments. |
| 1 | 112.12 (b) (10) (A) | external characteristics of an animal are related to where it lives, how it moves, and what it eats |
| 1 | 112.12 (b) (9) | the living environment is composed of relationships between organisms and the life cycles that occur. |
| 1 | 112.12 (b) (9) (C) | interdependence among living organisms such as energy transfer through food chains and animals using plants for shelter. |
| 2 | 112.13. (b) (9) (C) | ways living organisms depend on each other and on their environments such as food chains |
| 3 | 112.14. (b) (10) | organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that help them survive within their environments. |
| 3 | 112.14. (b) (10) (A) | explore how structures and functions of plants and animals allow them to survive in a particular environment |
| 3 | 112.14. (b) (9) | organisms have characteristics that help them survive and can describe patterns, cycles, systems, and relationships within the environments. |
| 3 | 112.14. (b) (9) (C) | describe environmental changes such as floods and droughts where some organisms thrive and others perish or move to new locations. |
| 4 | 112.15. (b) (10) | organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that help them survive within their environment. |
| 4 | 112.15. (b) (10) (A) | explore how adaptations enable organisms to survive in their environment such as comparing birds beaks and leaves on plants |
| 5 | 112.16. (b) (10) | organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that help them survive within their environments. |
| 5 | 112.16. (b) (10) (A) | compare the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive such as hooves on prairie animals or webbed feet in aquatic animals |
| 5 | 112.16. (b) (9) | there are relationships, systems, and cycles within environments. |
| 5 | 112.16. (b) (9) (A) | organisms live and survive in their ecosystem by interacting with the living and non-living elements |
| K | 112.11 (b) (10) | organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments. |
| PK | PK.2. (C) | begins to recognize patterns in their environment (e.g., day follows night, repeated phrases in storybooks, patterns in carpeting or clothing) |
