Alignment to Standards for DC
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC.1.2.1. | Recognize and explain that water, rocks, soil, and living organisms are found on the Earths surface. |
| 1 | SC.1.4. | Different types of plants and animals inhabit the Earth. |
| 2 | SC.2.3.1. | Explain how weather patterns occur continually on Earth. |
| 2 | SC.2.3.2. | Explain that air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and precipitation make up the weather in a particular place and time. |
| 2 | SC.2.3.5. | Explain the difference between weather and climate. |
| 2 | SC.2.3.6. | Describe the differences among the various forms of precipitation (rain, snow, sleet, and hail). |
| 2 | SC.2.3.7. | Cite specific examples of how human beings protect themselves from adverse weather conditions through different means. |
| 2 | SC.2.6. | Plants and animals have structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction. |
| 2 | SC.2.6.1. | visible, external features of plants and animals and describe how these features help them live in different environments. |
| 2 | SC.2.7. | Living things depend on one another and their environment for survival. |
| 2 | SC.2.7.4. | materials in nature, such as grass, twigs, sticks, and leaves, can be recycled and used again, sometimes in different forms, as birds do in making their nests. |
| 2 | SC.2.8. | Many different types of plants and animals inhabit the Earth. |
| 2 | SC.2.8.1. | living things are found almost everywhere in the world in habitats such as the oceans, rivers, rain forests, mountain ranges, arctic tundra, farms, cities, and other environments. Recognize that some habitats are extreme, such a |
| 3 | SC.3.5.1. | living things can be sorted into groups in many ways using various properties, such as how they look, where they live, and how they act, in order to decide which things belong to which group. |
| 4 | SC.4.7.1. | Explain that organisms interact with one another in various ways, such as providing food, pollination, and seed dispersal. |
| 5 | SC.5.4.6. | Explain how global patterns, such as the jet stream and ocean currents, influence local weather and climate in ways that can be measured in terms of temperature, pressure, wind direction and speed, and amounts of precipitation. |
| 5 | SC.5.8. | Many characteristics of an organism are inherited from the parents, but others result from the influence of the environment. |
| 5 | SC.5.8.2. | List some characteristics of plants and animals that are fully inherited (e.g., form of flower, shape of leaves) and others that are affected by the climate or environmental conditions (e.g., browning of leaves from too much sun, language spoken). |
| 5 | SC.5.9. | Adaptations in physical structure or behavior may improve an organismês chance for survival. |
| 5 | SC.5.9.1. | in any particular environment, some kinds of plants and animals survive well, some do not survive as well, and some cannot survive at all. |
| 5 | SC.5.9.3. | Explain how organisms can cause changes in their environment to ensure survival, and how these changes may affect the ecosystem (the living and nonliving components of the environment). |
| 5 | SC.5.9.5. | changes in an organismês habitat are sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful, and how changes in the environment (drought, cold) have caused some plants and animals to die, migrate, or become extinct. |
| 5 | SC.5.9.6. | many plants and animals can survive harsh environments because of seasonal behaviors (e.g., in winter, some trees shed leaves, some animals hibernate). |
| 5 | SC.5.9.7. | Recognize that some behaviors are instinctive (turtles burying their eggs) and others learned (wolfês hunting skills). |
