Alignment to Standards for MN
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.4.1.1.1 | Describe and sort animals into groups in many ways, according to their physical characteristics and behaviors. |
| 1 | 1.4.2.1.2 | Describe ways in which an animals habitat provides for its basic needs |
| 1 | 1.4.3.1.1 | Plants and animals undergo a series of orderly changes during their life cycles. |
| 2 | 2.4.1.1.1 | Describe and sort plants into groups in many ways, according to their physical characteristics and behaviors. |
| 3 | 3.4.1.1.1 | Compare how the different structures of plants and animals serve various functions of growth, survival and reproduction. |
| 3 | 3.4.1.1.2 | Identify common groups of plants and animals using observable physical characteristics, structures and behaviors. |
| K | 0.4.1.1.1 | Observe and compare plants and animals. |
| K | 0.4.1.1.2 | Living things are diverse with many different observable characteristics. Identify the external parts of a variety of plants and animals including humans. |
| K | 0.4.2.1.1 | Observe a natural system or its model, and identify living and nonliving components in that system. For example: A wetland, prairie, garden or aquarium |
| K-3 | K-3.V.A. | use directional and positional words to locate and describe people, places and things. |
| K-3 | K-3.V.A.4 | name and use directional words to describe locations of places in the school and community. locate places by using simple maps, and understand that maps are drawings of locations and places as viewed from above. |
| K-3 | K-3.VI.B.2 | natural resources, human resources, and human-made resources are used in the production of goods and services. |
