Alignment to Standards for MD
Grade | Number | Standard |
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1 | SC-1.2.0.E.2. | Describe that some events in nature have repeating patterns. |
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 | SS-1.3.0.A.1.a | Locate the continents and oceans using maps and a globe |
1 | SS-1.3.0.A.1.d | Define map elements as parts of a map that make it easy to use |
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 | SS-1.3.0.B.1. | Describe places in the environment using geographic characteristics |
1 | SS-1.3.0.B.1.a | Identify and describe physical characteristics of a place (physical features, climate, vegetation and animal life) |
1,2 | SS-1&2.3.0.A.1. | Use geographic tools to locate and describe places on Earth |
2 | SC-2.3.0.F.1. | Explain that organisms can grow and survive in many very different habitats. |
2 | SC-2.3.0.F.1.a | Investigate a variety of familiar and unfamiliar habitats and describe how animals and plants found there maintain their lives and survive to reproduce. |
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 |
2 | SS-2.3.0.B.1. | Classify places and regions in an environment using geographic characteristics |
2 | SS-2.3.0.B.1.b | Describe and classify regions using climate, vegetation, animal life, and natural/physical features |
3 | SS-3.3.0.A.1. | Use geographic tools to locate and construct meaning about places on Earth |
3 | SS-3.3.0.B.1.a | Compare places and regions using geographic features |
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.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.F.1.a | Explain ways that individuals and groups of organisms interact with each other and their environment. |
K | SC-K.2.0.D.1.a | Identify and describe the sun, moon and stars. |
K | SC-K.2.0.D.1.b | Describe ways in which the daytime and nighttime skies are different. |
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.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. | living things are found almost everywhere in the world and that there are somewhat different kinds of living things in different places. |
K | SC-K.3.0.D.1.b | describe and compare living things found in other states such as Texas and Alaska to those found in Maryland. |
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 | SC-K.3.0.F.1.a | Describe observations of the place and some of the living things found there. |
K | SC-K.3.0.F.1.c | Describe ways that animals and plants found in each place interact with each other and with their environment. |
K | SC-K.6.0.B.1.b | Identify features of the natural environment that are not made by humans. |
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 |
K | SS-K-3.0.B.1.a | Recognize physical features as landforms and bodies of water using photographs and pictures |
K | SS-K-3.0.B.1.b | Identify land forms, such as mountains and hills, and bodies of water, such as oceans, rivers, and streams |
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-3.0.B.1.e | Discuss that places have natural/physical features such as mountains, rivers, and hills |