Alignment to Standards for TN
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC-1.1.2. | Recognize that smaller parts of living things contribute to the operation and well being of entire organisms. |
| 1 | SC-1.2.3. | Examine interrelationships among plants, animals, and their environment. |
| 1 | SC-1.2.3.a | Collect information about organisms that occupy specific environments. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.1.a | Recognize the basic needs of living things (e.g., food, water, sunlight, air). |
| 1 | SC-1.5.2. | Recognize that living things have features that help them to survive in different environments. |
| 1 | SC-1.5.2.a | Recognize the environment in which an organism is typically found. |
| 1 | SC-1.9.1. | Identify the earthês major geological features. |
| 1 | SC-1.9.1.a | Distinguish between land and water environments. |
| 1 | SS-1.3.01. | Understand how to use maps, globes, and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective. |
| 1 | SS-1.3.01.a | maps and globes are representations or models of specific places. |
| 1 | SS-1.3.01.d | Interpret symbols that represent various forms of geographic data and use these symbols to identify locations and directions. |
| 1 | SS-1.3.02. | Recognize how to identify and locate major physical and political features on maps and globes. |
| 1 | SS-1.3.02.c | Locate cities, states, countries, and continents on maps and globes and major bodies of water on maps and globes. |
| 1 | SS-1.3.03.c | Compare/contrast natural and artificial features of the earth. |
| 2 | SC-2.12.1. | objects have observable properties that can change over time and under different conditions. |
| 2 | SC-2.2.2.a | Determine how animals interact with the living and non-living elements in their environment through the senses. |
| 2 | SC-2.2.3.a | Determine how organisms interact with the non-living elements of their environment. |
| 2 | SC-2.3.1. | Recognize the basic requirements of all living things. |
| 2 | SC-2.5.2. | Recognize that living things have features that help them to survive in different environments. |
| 2 | SC-2.5.2.a | Classify an organism according to the environment in which it can best survive. |
| 2 | SC-2.9.1. | Identify the earthês major geological features. |
| 2 | SC-2.9.1.a | Recognize the earthês major geological features (e.g., continents, oceans, lakes). |
| 2 | SS-2.3.01. | Understand how to use maps, globes, and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective. |
| 2 | SS-2.3.01.d | Recognize that a map contains elements such as title, scale, symbols, legends, grids, cardinal and intermediate direction. |
| 2 | SS-2.3.03. | locate major physical and political features on globes and maps. |
| 2 | SS-2.3.03.a | Show how landmasses and bodies of water are represented on maps and globes. |
| 3 | SC-3.12.1. | objects have observable properties that can change over time and under different conditions. |
| 3 | SC-3.2.3. | plants and animals depend upon each other and the non-living elements of an environment to meet basic needs. |
| 3 | SC-3.2.3. | Examine interrelationships among plants, animals, and their environment. |
| 3 | SC-3.3.1. | Recognize the basic requirements of all living things. |
| 3 | SC-3.5.2. | Recognize that living things have features that help them to survive in different environments. |
| 3 | SC-3.9.1. | Identify the earthês major geological features. |
| 3 | SC-3.9.1.a | Compare and contrast a variety of different landforms and bodies of water. |
| 3 | SS-3.2.03.f | Trace the development of a product from a natural resource to a finished product. |
| 3 | SS-3.3.01. | Understand how to use maps, globes, and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective. |
| 3 | SS-3.3.02.b | List the basic components of earth's physical systems (e.g., landforms, water, climate and weather, erosion and deposition). |
| 3 | SS-3.3.02.c | Understand the concept of an ecosystem. |
| 3 | SS-3.3.02.d | Describe how environments and regions differ around the world. |
| 3 | SS-3.3.03. | Demonstrate how to identify and locate major physical and political features on globes and maps. |
| 4 | SC-4.2.1. | Investigate the relationships among organisms in a specific ecosystem. |
| 4 | SC-4.2.1.a | Examine and relate how plants and animals interact with each other and their environment. |
| 4 | SC-4.2.2. | Recognize that organisms are able to change their environment. |
| 4 | SC-4.2.2.a | Provide evidence and give examples of environmental changes caused by living things. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.1. | Realize that plants and animals use food for energy. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.1.a | Explain that animals must obtain and use food for energy. |
| 4 | SC-4.5.1. | Realize that plants and animals can be grouped according to similarities and differences in their characteristics. |
| 4 | SC-4.5.1.a | Classify animals, by type, according to their characteristics. |
| 4 | SC-4.8.2. | Recognize that landforms and bodies of water affect weather and climate. |
| 4 | SC-4.9.1. | Recognize that the earthês geological features change. |
| 4 | SC-4.9.2. | Know that the earth is composed of different layers. |
| 4 | SC-4.9.2.a | Identify the earthês layers. |
| 4 | SS-4.3.01.b | Locate places on a map using cardinal and intermediate directions, latitude and longitude, and time zones. |
| 5 | SC-5.2.1. | Investigate the relationships among organisms in a specific ecosystem. |
| 5 | SC-5.2.2. | Recognize that organisms are able to change their environment. |
| 5 | SC-5.3.1. | Realize that plants and animals use food for energy. |
| 5 | SC-5.3.2. | Recognize the function of specific structures in organisms that allow them to obtain and use energy. |
| 5 | SC-5.4.1. | Realize that certain characteristics are passed from parents to offspring. |
| 5 | SC-5.5.1. | Realize that plants and animals can be grouped according to similarities and differences in their characteristics. |
| 5 | SC-5.5.2. | Determine that adaptations help organisms to survive in their environments. |
| 5 | SC-5.8.2 | Recognize that landforms and bodies of water affect weather and climate. |
| 5 | SC-5.8.2a | Explain the effects of landforms on weather and climate. |
| 5 | SC-5.9.1. | Recognize that the earthês geological features change. |
| 5 | SC-5.9.1.a | Explain how certain forces cause changes in the earthês geological features (i.e., wind, water, plate tectonics). |
| 5 | SC-5.9.2. | Know that the earth is composed of different layers. |
| 5 | SC-5.9.2.a | Construct a model that depicts the layers of the earth. |
| K | SC-K.5.2. | Recognize that living things have features that help them to survive in different environments. |
| K | SC-K.5.2.a | Know that different organisms tend to be found in different environments. |
| K | SS-K.3.01. | Understand how to use maps, globes, and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective. |
| K | SS-K.3.01.a | Explain what a globe and map represent. |
| K | SS-K.3.03. | Demonstrate how to identify and locate major physical and political features on globes and maps. |
| K | SS-K.3.03.a | Identify the concept of physical features as in mountains, plains, hills, oceans, and islands. |
