Alignment to Standards for NM
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GEO-1)2.A.1 | Understand maps and globes as representations of places and phenomena. |
| 1 | GEO-1)2.F.1 | Describe the role of resources in daily life. |
| 1 | SC-1)2.2.1.2. | living organisms inhabit various environments and have various external features to help them satisfy their needs (e.g., leaves, legs, claws). |
| 1 | SC-1)2.2.1.3. | differences and similarities among living organisms (e.g., plants, animals). |
| 1 | SC-1)2.2.3.3. | some parts of human bodies differ from similar parts of other animals (hands and feet/paws; ears). |
| 1 | SC-1)2.3.2.2. | different climates (e.g., desert, arctic, rainforest). |
| 2 | GEO-2)2.A.1. | Use a variety of maps to locate specific places and regions. |
| 2 | GEO-2)2.A.2 | Identify major landforms, bodies of water, and other places of significance in selected countries, continents, and oceans. |
| 2 | GEO-2)2.C.1 | Identify ways in which people depend on natural and man-made environments including natural resources to meet basic needs. |
| 2 | GEO-2)2.D.1 | Describe the physical processes that affect the Earthês features |
| 2 | GEO-2)2.F.1 | Describe ways that people and groups can conserve and replenish natural resources. |
| 2 | SC-2)2.1.1. | properties change when they are mixed, cooled, or heated (salt dissolves in water, ice melts). |
| 2 | SC-2)2.2.2.3. | the environment influences some characteristics of living things (e.g., amount of sunlight required for plant growth). |
| 3 | EC-3)4.A.2 | Define and categorize resources (e.g., human, financial, natural). |
| 3 | EC-3)4.A.3 | Identify a variety of products that use similar resources. |
| 3 | GEO-3)2.A1 | Identify and use the mapping tools of scale, compass rose, grid, symbols, and mental mapping to locate and draw places on maps and globes. |
| 3 | SC-3)2.2.1.1. | an adaptation in physical structure or behavior can improve an organismês chance for survival (e.g., horned toads, chameleons, cacti, mushrooms). |
| 3 | SC-3)2.2.1.2. | plants and animals have structures that serve different functions (e.g., shape of animalsê teeth). |
| 3 | SC-3)2.2.1.3. | Classify common animals according to their observable characteristics (e.g., body coverings, structure). |
| 3 | SC-3)2.2.2.1. | living things cause changes to the environments in which they live, and that some of these changes are detrimental to the organism and some are beneficial. |
| 3 | SC-3)2.3.2.1. | Know that Earthês features are constantly changed by a combination of slow and rapid processes that include the action of volcanoes, earthquakes, mountain building, biological changes, erosion, and weathering. |
| 3 | SC-3)2.3.2.4. | Identify how water exists in the air in different forms (e.g., in clouds and fog as tiny droplets; in rain, snow, and hail) and changes from one form to another through various processes (e.g., freezing/condensation, precipitation, evaporation). |
| 4 | SC-4)2.2.1.1. | different living organisms have distinctive structures and body systems that serve specific functions (e.g., walking, flying, swimming). |
| 4 | SC-4)2.2.2.1. | in any particular environment some kinds of plants and animals survive well, some survive less well, and others cannot survive at all. |
| 4 | SC-4)2.2.2.2. | a change in physical structure or behavior can improve an organismês chance of survival (e.g., a chameleon changes color, a turtle pulls its head into its shell, a plant grows toward the light). |
| 4 | SC-4)2.2.2.3. | living organisms have developed characteristics to improve chances of survival (e.g., spines on cacti, long beaks on hummingbirds, good eyesight on hawks). |
| K | GEO-K)2.B.1 | Identify natural characteristics of places (e.g., climate, topography). |
| K | GEO-K)2.C.2 | natural characteristics of places: landforms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather). |
| K | GEO-K)2.D.1 | Describe the Earthês physical characteristics. |
| K | GEO-K)2.F.1 | Identify natural resources. |
| K | SC-K)1.1.3.1. | the relative sizes and characteristics of objects (e.g., bigger, brighter, louder, smellier). |
| K | SC-K)2.2.1.1. | major structures of common livings organisms (e.g., stems, leaves, and roots of plants; arms, wings, and legs of animals). |
| K | SC-K)2.2.2.1. | similarities and differences in the appearance and behavior of living organisms (e.g., plants, animals). |
