Alignment to Standards for TX
Grade | Number | Standard |
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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) (C) | interdependence among living organisms such as energy transfer through food chains and animals using plants for shelter. |
1 | 113.3. (1.5) | The student understands the purpose of maps and globes. |
2 | 111.14 (2.11) (B) | is expected to draw conclusions and answer questions based on picture graphs and bar-type graphs. |
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) (8) (B) | identify the importance of weather and seasonal information to make choices in clothing, activities, and transportation |
2 | 112.13. (b) (9) (C) | ways living organisms depend on each other and on their environments such as food chains |
2 | 113.4. (2.5) | uses simple geographic tools such as maps, globes, and photographs. |
2 | 113.4. (2.5) (A) | use symbols, find locations, and determine directions on maps and globes; and |
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) (10) (B) | some characteristics of organisms are inherited such as the number of limbs on an animal or flower color and recognize that some behaviors are learned in response to living in a certain environment such as animals using tools to get food |
3 | 112.14. (b) (7) | Earth consists of natural resources and its surface is constantly changing. |
3 | 112.14. (b) (7) (B) | rapid changes in Earths surface such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and landslides |
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. |
3 | 113.5. (3.4) (C) | describe the effects of physical and human processes in shaping the landscape; and |
3 | 113.5. (3.5) (A) | use cardinal and intermediate directions to locate places such as the Amazon River, Himalayan Mountains, and Washington D.C. on maps and globes; |
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) (10) (B) | differentiate between inherited traits of plants and animals such as spines on a cactus or shape of a beak and learned behaviors such as an animal learning tricks or a child riding a bicycle |
5 | 112.16. (b) (7) | Earths surface is constantly changing and consists of useful resources. |
5 | 112.16. (b) (8) (A) | differentiate between weather and climate |
5 | 112.16. (b) (9) | there are relationships, systems, and cycles within environments. |
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) (8) (A) | observe and describe weather changes from day to day and over seasons |
K | 113.2. (K.16) (B) | create and interpret visuals including pictures and maps. |