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) (5) (A) | classify objects by observable properties of the materials from which they are made such as larger and smaller, heavier and lighter, shape, color, and texture |
1 | 112.12 (b) (7) | the natural world includes rocks, soil, and water that can be observed in cycles, patterns, and systems. |
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. |
1 | 113.3. (1.6) (A) | physical characteristics of places such as landforms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather; |
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 |
2 | 113.4. (2.6) | locations and characteristics of places and regions. |
2 | 113.4. (2.6) (A) | identify major landforms and bodies of water, including continents and oceans, on maps and globes; |
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) (C) | identify and compare different landforms, including mountains, hills, valleys, and plains |
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) (A) | physical characteristics of environments and how they support populations and communities within an ecosystem |
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 |
4 | 112.15. (b) (9) | living organisms within an ecosystem interact with one another and with their environment. |
4 | 112.15. (b) (9)(A) | most producers need sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make their own food, while consumers are dependent on other organisms for food |
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. |
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. |
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 |
K | 113.2. (K.5) (A) | identify the physical characteristics of places such as landforms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather; and |
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. (B) | describes properties of objects and characteristics of living things |
PK | PK.2. (H) | uses patterns (such as growth and day following night to predict what happens next) |
PK | PK.2. (I) | identifies similarities and differences among objects and organisms |