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.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.I.1a. | Identify the relative amount and kind of water found in various locations on Earth (e.g., oceans have most of the water, glaciers and snowfields contain most fresh water). |
| 4 | SC-4.III.2 | how the processes of weathering and erosion change and move materials that become soil. |
| 4 | SC-4.III.2a. | processes of physical weathering that break down rocks at Earths surface (i.e., water movement, freezing, plant growth, wind). |
| 4 | SC-4.III.2b. | Distinguish between weathering (i.e., wearing down and breaking of rock surfaces) and erosion (i.e., the movement of materials). |
| 4 | SC-4.V.2 | Describe the common plants and animals found in Utah environments and how these organisms have adapted to the environment in which they live. |
| 4 | SC-4.V.4b. | Describe how the behavior and adaptations of Utah mammals help them survive winter (e.g., obtaining food, building homes, hibernation, migration). |
| 4 | SS-4.II.3b. | Describe the role of producers and consumers. |
| 5 | SC-5.II | Students will understand that volcanoes, earthquakes, uplift, weathering, and erosion reshape Earths surface. |
| 5 | SC-5.II.1 | weathering and erosion change Earthês surface. |
| 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.1b. | geological features (e.g., valleys, canyons, buttes, arches) are changed through erosion (e.g., waves, wind, glaciers, gravity, running water). |
| 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.II.3 | Relate the building up and breaking down of Earthês surface over time to the various physical land features. |
| 5 | SC-5.II.3b. | role of deposition in the processes that change Earthês surface. |
| 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.2 | Describe how some characteristics could give a species a survival advantage in a particular environment. |
| 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.1d. | Observe and describe changes in behavior of animals as the seasons change. |
| K | CC-K.III.2e. | Distinguish between real and make-believe animal behaviors. |
| K | CC-K.III.3c. | Explore basic map and globe directions and characteristics (e.g., top, bottom, right, left, land, water, Arctic Ocean, Antarctica). |
