Alignment to Standards for IL
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Early Elementary | 12.A.1a | Identify and describe the component parts of living things (e.g., birds have feathers; people have bones, blood, hair, skin) and their major functions. |
| Early Elementary | 12.A.1b | Categorize living organisms using a variety of observable features (e.g., size, color, shape, backbone). |
| Early Elementary | 12.B.1a | Describe and compare characteristics of living things in relationship to their environments. |
| Early Elementary | 17.A.1a | Identify physical characteristics of places, local and global: locations, regions, bodies of water). |
| Early Elementary | 17.A.1b | characteristics and purposes of geographic representations including maps, globes, graphs, photographs, software, digital images and be able to locate specific places using each. |
| Early Elementary | 17.B.1a | Identify components of the Earthês physical systems: atmosphere (air), lithosphere (land areas), hydrosphere (water areas) and biosphere (life |
| Early Elementary | 17.B.1b | Describe physical components of ecosystems. |
| Late Elementary | 12.E.2a | Identify and explain natural cycles of the Earthês land, water and atmospheric systems (e.g., rock cycle, water cycle, weather patterns). |
| Late Elementary | 17.A.2b | Use maps and other geographic representations and instruments to gather information about people, places and environments. |
