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) (10) (A) | compare how the physical characteristics and behaviors of animals help them meet their basic needs such as fins help fish move and balance in the water |
| 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. |
| 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) (D) | identify the significance of the carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle to the survival of plants and animals. |
| K | 111.12 (K.8) | uses attributes to determine how objects are alike and different. |
| K | 111.12 (K.8) (A) | is expected to describe and identify an object by its attributes using informal language. |
| K | 111.12 (K.8) (B) | is expected to compare two objects based on their attributes. |
| K | 112.11 (b) (10) | organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments. |
| K | 112.11 (b) (10) (A) | sort plants and animals into groups based on physical characteristics such as color, size, body covering, or leaf shape |
| PK | PK.1. (J) | compares objects and organisms and identifies similarities and differences |
| PK | PK.1. (K) | sorts objects and organisms into groups and begins to describe how groups were organized |
| PK | PK.2. (F) | begins to recognize that living things have similar needs for water, food, and air |
| PK | PK.2. (I) | identifies similarities and differences among objects and organisms |
| PK | PK.5. (C) | sorts objects into groups by an attribute and begins to explain how the grouping was done |
