Alignment to Standards for NC
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC:1.L.1.2 | Give examples of how the needs of different plants and animals can be met by their environments in North Carolina or different places throughout the world. |
| 2 | SC:2.E.1 | Understand patterns of weather and factors that affect weather. |
| 2 | SC:2.E.1.3 | Compare weather patterns that occur over time and relate observable patterns to time of day and time of year. |
| 2 | SC:2.L.1 | Understand animal life cycles. |
| 2 | SC:2.L.1.1 | Summarize the life cycle of animals: birth, developing into an adult, reproducing, aging and death, |
| 2 | SC:2.L.1.2 | Compare life cycles of different animals such as, but not limited to, mealworms, ladybugs, crickets, guppies or frogs. |
| 2 | SC:2.L.2.1 | Identify ways in which many plants and animals closely resemble their parents in observed appearance and ways they are different. |
| 4 | SC:4.L.1.2 | how animals meet their needs by using behaviors in response to information received from the environment. |
| 5 | SC:5.L.1 | structures and systems of organisms perform functions necessary for life. |
| 5 | SC:5.L.3 | Understand why organisms differ from or are similar to their parents based on the characteristics of the organism. |
| 5 | SC:5.L.3.2 | Give examples of likenesses that are inherited and some that are not. |
| K | SC:K.E.1 | Understand change and observable patterns of weather that occur from day to day and throughout the year. |
| K | SC:K.E.1.1 | Infer that change is something that happens to many things in the environment based on observations made using one or more of their senses. |
| K | SC:K.E.1.3 | Compare weather patterns that occur from season to season. |
