Alignment to Standards for MD
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.A.1. | Compare and explain how external features of plants and animals help them survive in different environments. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.A.1.b | Compare similar features in some animals and plants and explain how each of these enables the organism to satisfy basic needs. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.A.1.c | an organisms external features contribute to its ability to survive in an environment. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.A.1.d | Classify organisms according to one selected feature, such as body covering, and identify other similarities shared by organisms within each group formed. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.B.2.a | humans and other animals have different body parts used to seek, find, and take in food. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.C.1. | Explain that there are differences among individuals in any population. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.C.1.a | plants and animals to identify ways that individuals are different from one another. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.E.1.a | Examine organisms in a wide variety of environments to gather information on how animals satisfy their need for food. |
| 1 | SS-1.3.0.A.1.a | Locate the continents and oceans using maps and a globe |
| 1 | SS-1.3.0.A.1.e | Describe where places are located on a map using relative distance and direction, such as near-far, above-below and cardinal directions (north, south, east, and west) |
| 1,2 | SS-1&2.3.0.A.1. | Use geographic tools to locate and describe places on Earth |
| 2 | SC-2.3.0.D.1. | Observe and describe examples of variation (differences) among individuals of one kind within a population. |
| 2 | SC-2.3.0.D.1.a | individuals in familiar animal populations, cats or dogs, to identify how they look alike and how they are different. |
| 2 | SC-2.3.0.F.1. | Explain that organisms can grow and survive in many very different habitats. |
| 2 | SS-2.3.0.A.1.a | Identify the purpose and use of a globe and a variety of maps and atlases, such as school maps, neighborhood maps and simple atlases |
| 2 | SS-2.3.0.A.1.c | Identify the equator, poles, seven continents, four oceans, and countries on a map and globe |
| 3 | SS-3.6.0.F.1.a | Interpret information in maps, charts and graphs |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.A.1.a | a variety of animals or plants in both familiar and unfamiliar environments. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.D.1. | individuals of the same kind differ in their characteristics, and sometimes the differences give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.D.1.a | Describe ways in which organisms in one habitat differ from those in another habitat and consider how these differences help them survive and reproduce. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.D.1.b | Explain that the characteristics of an organism affect its ability to survive and reproduce. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.D.1.c | individuals in a group of the same kind of animals or plants to identify differences in characteristics, such as hearing ability in rabbits or keenness of vision in hawks that might give those individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.A.1. | familiar animals and plants: patterns of similarity and difference among them. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.A.1.a | features (observable parts) of animals and plants that make some of them alike in the way they look and the things they do. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.A.1.b | features that make some animals and some plants very different from one another. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.A.1.c | Identify a feature that distinguishes animals that fly (as an example) from animals that cannot and examine a variety of animals that can fly to discover other similar features they might share. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.A.1.d | Compare ideas about how the features of animals and plants affect what these animals are able to do. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.A.2.c | similarities in what both humans and other animals are able to do because they possess certain external features. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.D.1.c | Explain that the external features of plants and animals affect how well they thrive in different kinds of places. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.E.1. | Develop an awareness of the relationship of features of living things and their ability to satisfy basic needs that support their growth and survival. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.F.1. | Investigate a variety of familiar places where plants and animals live to describe the place and the living things found there. |
| K | SS-K-3.0.A.1. | globe and maps can be used to help people locate places |
| K | SS-K-3.0.A.1.b | Describe how maps are models showing physical features and/or human features of places |
| K | SS-K-3.0.A.1.d | Identify pictures and photographs that represent places on a map such as a playground and a fire station |
| PK | SC-PK.3.0.A.1.a | how some animals are alike in the way they look and in the things they do. |
| PK | SC-PK.3.0.A.1.d | Identify some of the things that all animals do, such as eat, move around and explain how their features (observable parts) help them do these things. |
| PK | SS-PK-3.0.A.1. | Recognize that a globe and maps are used to help people locate places |
| PK | SS-PK-3.0.A.1.a | Recognize that maps are models of places |
| PK | SS-PK-3.6.0.E.1.a | Distinguish factual from fictional information (anthropomorphic) |
| PK-2 | SC-PK-2.1.0.A.1.c | Use tools such as thermometers, magnifiers, rulers, or balances to extend their senses and gather data. |
| PK-2 | SC-PK-2.1.0.A.1.g | Use whole numbers and simple, everyday fractions in ordering, counting, identifying, measuring, and describing things and experiences. |
