Alignment to Standards for AL
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | S.Gr 1.4.) | Describe survival traits of living things, including color, shape, size, texture, and covering. |
| 1 | S.Gr 1.4.c) | Describing a variety of habitats and natural homes of animals |
| 1 | SS Gr 1.7.) | Identify ways to take personal action to protect the environment. |
| 2 | S.Gr 2.6.) | Identify characteristics of animals, including behavior, size, and body covering |
| 2 | SS Gr 2.7b.) | Identifying positive and negative ways people affect the environment |
| 3 | S.Gr 3.3.) | Describe ways energy from the sun is used. Examples: plant growth, light, heat |
| 3 | S.Gr 3.7.) | the role of plants in a food chain |
| 3 | S.Gr 3.7.d) | Identifying helpful and harmful effects of plants. Examples: helpful-provide food, control erosion; harmful-cause allergic reactions, produce poisons |
| 3 | SS Gr 3.3a.) | Identifying ways in which humans alter the physical environment |
| 3 | SS Gr 3.5a.) | Differentiating between producers and consumers and imports and exports: producers-suppliers, sellers; consumers-buyers; imports-coffee from Colombia, pineapples from Hawaii; exports-corn from Iowa |
| 3 | SS Gr 3.7a.) | Locating major natural resources and deposits throughout Alabama, the United States, and the Western Hemisphere |
| 4 | S.Gr 4.5.) | the interdependence of plants and animals. |
| 4 | S.Gr 4.5.a) | Describing behaviors and body structures that help animals survive in particular habitats Examples: behaviors-migration, hibernation, mimicry; body structures-quills, fangs, stingers, webbed feet |
| 4 | S.Gr 4.5.c) | food chain producer, first-level consumer, second-level consumer, and third-level consumer |
| 4 | S.Gr 4.5.d) | Identifying characteristics of organisms, including growth and development, reproduction, acquisition and use of energy, and response to the environment |
| K | S.Gr K.6.) | Compare size, shape, structure, and basic needs of living things. |
