Alignment to Standards for UT
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CC-1.III.2d. | Describe how plants and people need, use, and receive water. |
| 2 | CC-2.III.1 | Investigate relationships between plants and animals and how living things change during their lives. |
| 2 | CC-2.III.1a. | Observe and describe relationships between plants and animals. |
| 2 | CC-2.III.2a. | Observe and describe patterns of change in weather. |
| 2 | CC-2.III.2c. | Describe how weather affects people and animals. |
| 2 | CC-2.III.4a. | Identify and use information on a map or globe (ie., map key or legend, compass rose, physical features, continents, oceans). |
| 2 | CC-2.III.4c. | Locate continents and oceans on a map or globe (ie., North America, Antarctica, Australia, Africa, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean). |
| 3 | SC-3.II | organisms depend on living and nonliving things within their environment. |
| 3 | SC-3.II.2b. | Predict the effects of changes in the environment (e.g., temperature, light, moisture) on a living organism. |
| 3 | SS-3.I.2a. | the major world ecosystems: desert, plain, tropic, tundra, grassland, mountain, forest, wetland |
| 4 | SC-4.II.1d. | Compare the components of severe weather phenomena to normal weather conditions (e.g., thunderstorm with lightning and high winds compared to rainstorm with rain showers and breezes). |
| 5 | SC-5.II.1a. | the objects, processes, or forces that weather and erode Earthês surface (e.g., ice, plants, animals, abrasion, gravity, water, wind). |
| 5 | SC-5.II.2a. | Identify specific geological features created by volcanoes, earthquakes, and uplift. |
| 5 | SC-5.II.2b. | Give examples of different landforms that are formed by volcanoes, earthquakes, and uplift (e.g., mountains, valleys, new lakes, canyons). |
| 5 | SC-5.V.1d. | Contrast inherited traits with traits and behaviors that are not inherited but may be learned or induced by environmental factors (e.g., cat purring to cat meowing to be let out of the house; the round shape of a willow is inherited, while leaning away fr |
| 5 | SC-5.V.2b. | some environments give one species a survival advantage over another (e.g., warm water favors fish such as carp, cold water favors fish such as trout, environments that burn regularly favor grasses, environments that do not often burn favor |
| 5 | SC-5.V.2c. | a particular physical attribute may provide an advantage for survival in one environment but not in another (e.g., heavy fur in arctic climates keep animals warm whereas in hot desert climates it would cause overheating; flippers on such anim |
| K | CC-K.III.1 | Investigate changes in the seasons. |
| K | CC-K.III.1a. | Identify the seasons and represent each with pictures and songs. |
| K | CC-K.III.1b. | Observe and describe typical weather for each of the seasons. |
| K | CC-K.III.1d. | Observe and describe changes in behavior of animals as the seasons change. |
| K | CC-K.III.3a. | Recognize that maps and globes are symbols for actual places. |
| K | CC-K.III.3c. | Explore basic map and globe directions and characteristics (e.g., top, bottom, right, left, land, water, Arctic Ocean, Antarctica). |
