Alignment to Standards for CA
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 S ES--3.b. | weather changes from day to day but that trends in temperature or of rain (or snow) tend to be predictable during a season. |
| 1 | 1 S LS--2 | Plants and animals meet their needs in different ways. |
| 1 | 1 S LS--2.a. | Different plants and animals inhabit different kinds of environments and have external features that help them thrive in different kinds of places. |
| 1 | 1 S LS--2.c. | animals eat plants or other animals for food and may also use plants or even other animals for shelter and nesting. |
| 1 | 1 SS 2)1 | Locate on maps and globes their local community, California, the United States, the seven continents, and the four oceans. |
| 2 | 2 S ES--3 | Earth is made of materials that have distinct properties and provide resources for human activities. |
| 2 | 2 S ES--3.e.D144 | rocks, water, plants, and soil provide many resources, including food, fuel, and building materials, that humans use. |
| 2 | 2 S LS--2.c. | many characteristics of an organism are inherited from the parents. Some characteristics are caused or influenced by the environment. |
| 3 | 3 S LS--3 | Adaptations in physical structure or behavior may improve an organisms chance for survival. |
| 3 | 3 S LS--3.a. | plants and animals have structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction. |
| 3 | 3 S LS--3.b. | examples of diverse life forms in different environments, such as oceans, deserts, tundra, forests, grasslands, and wetlands. |
| 3 | 3 S LS--3.c. | living things cause changes in the environment in which they live: some of these changes are detrimental to the organism or other organisms, and some are beneficial. |
| 3 | 3 S LS--3.d. | when the environment changes, some plants and animals survive and reproduce; others die or move to new locations. |
| 3 | 3 SS 1) | physical and human geography and use maps, tables, graphs, photographs, and charts to organize information about people, places, and environments in a spatial context. |
| 3 | 3 SS 1)1 | Identify geographical features in their local region (e.g., deserts, mountains, valleys, hills, coastal areas, oceans, lakes). |
| 4 | 4 S ES--5 | Waves, wind, water, and ice shape and reshape Earths land surface. |
| 4 | 4 S ES--5.a. | some changes in the earth are due to slow processes, such as erosion, and some changes are due to rapid processes, such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes. |
| 4 | 4 S ES--5.c. | moving water erodes landforms, reshaping the land by taking it away from some places and depositing it as pebbles, sand, silt, and mud in other places (weathering, transport, and deposition). |
| 4 | 4 S LS--2.b. | producers and consumers (herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers) are related in food chains and food webs and may compete with each other for resources in an ecosystem. |
| 4 | 4 S LS--3 | Living organisms depend on one another and on their environment for survival. |
| 4 | 4 S LS--3.a. | ecosystems can be characterized by their living and nonliving components. |
| 4 | 4 S LS--3.b. | in any particular environment, some kinds of plants and animals survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. |
| 5 | 5 S ES--.3.a. | most of Earths water is present as salt water in the oceans, which cover most of Earths surface. |
| 5 | 5 S ES--.3.d. | the amount of fresh water located in rivers, lakes, under-ground sources, and glaciers is limited and that its availability can be extended by recycling and decreasing the use of water. |
| K | K S ES--3.a. | characteristics of mountains, rivers, oceans, valleys, deserts, and local landforms. |
| K | K S ES--3.b. | changes in weather occur from day to day and across seasons, affecting Earth and its inhabitants. |
| K | K S ES--3.c. | Students identify resources from Earth that are used in everyday life and understand that many resources can be conserved. |
| K | K S LS--2 | Different types of plants and animals inhabit the earth. |
| K | K S LS--2.a. | similarities and differences in the appearance and behavior of plants and animals (e.g., seed-bearing plants, birds, fish, insects). |
| K | K S LS--2.b. | stories sometimes give plants and animals attributes they do not really have. |
| K | K S LS--2.c. | identify major structures of common plants and animals (e.g., stems, leaves, roots, arms, wings, legs). |
| K | K SS 1) | being a good citizen involves acting in certain ways. |
| K | K SS 4) | compare/contrast locations of people, places, and environments and describe their characteristics. |
| K | K SS 4)2 | Distinguish between land and water on maps and globes and locate general areas referenced in historical legends and stories. |
