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. | Provide evidence that all organisms are made of parts that help them carry out the basic functions of life. |
| 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.E.1. | Describe some of the ways in which animals depend on plants and on each other. |
| 1 | SC-1.6.0.B.1. | Recognize that caring about the environment is an important human activity. |
| 1 | SC-1.6.0.B.1.a | Recognize and describe that individual and group actions, such as recycling, help the environment. |
| 1 | SC-1.6.0.B.1.b | Recognize and describe that individual and group actions, such as littering, harm the environment. |
| 1 | SC-1.6.0.B.1.c | Give reasons why people should take care of their environments. |
| 1 | SS-1.1.0.C.1.b | Demonstrate ways to work together to maintain a clean and safe home, school, and neighborhood environment |
| 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.D.1.b | Describe why and how people protect the environment |
| 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 | SC-2.6.0.A.1.e | Explain that some natural resources are limited and need to be used wisely. |
| 2 | SC-2.6.0.B.1. | Recognize and describe that the activities of individuals or groups of individuals can affect the environment. |
| 2 | SC-2.6.0.B.1.a | Identify and describe that individual and group actions, such as turning off lights, conserving water, recycling, picking up litter, or joining an organization can extend the natural resources of the environment. |
| 2 | SC-2.6.0.B.1.b | Identify and describe that individual and group actions, such as leaving lights on, wasting water, or throwing away recyclables, can limit the natural resources of the environment. |
| 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.D.1.b | Describe how and why people protect or fail to protect the environment |
| 3 | SC-3.3.0.E.1.a | Identify and compile a list of materials that can be recycled. |
| 3 | SC-3.3.0.E.1.b | Identify what happens to materials when they are recycled. |
| 3 | SS-3.3.0.A.1. | Use geographic tools to locate and construct meaning about places on Earth |
| 3 | SS-3.3.0.D.1.b | Describe why and how people make decisions about protecting the environment |
| 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.C.1.c | some likenesses between parents and offspring are inherited (such as eye color in humans, nest building in birds, or flower color in plants) and other likenesses are learned (such as language in humans ) |
| 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. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.F.1c | Identify and describe the interactions of organisms present in a habitat: Beneficial interactions: nesting, pollination, seed dispersal, oysters filtering as in the Chesapeake Bay, etc. |
| 5 | SC-5.6.0.B.1.a | personal and community behaviors that waste natural resources and/or cause environmental harm and those behaviors that maintain or improve the environment. |
| 5 | SC-5.6.0.B.1.b | Identify and describe that individuals and groups assess and manage risk to the environment differently. |
| 5 | SC-5.6.0.B.2.b | human activities may have a negative consequence on the natural environment: Damage or destruction done to habitats, Air, water, and land pollution |
| 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.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.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 | 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 |
