Alignment to Standards for VA
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC-1.5b | animal characteristics:body coverings, body shape, appendages, and methods of movement) |
| 1 | SC-1.5c | animal characteristics. Key concepts include other characteristics (wild/tame, water homes/land homes). |
| 1 | SC-1.7b | Seasonal changes: Key concepts include how temperature, light, and precipitation bring about changes in animals (behaviors, hibernation, migration, body covering, and habitat); and |
| 2 | SC-2.4a | plant and animal life cycles. Key concepts include some animals (frogs and butterflies) undergo distinct stages during their lives, while others generally resemble their parents; and |
| 2 | SC-2.5a | living things are part of a system. Key concepts include living organisms are interdependent with their living and nonliving surroundings; and |
| 2 | SC-2.5b | living things are part of a system. Key concepts include habitats change over time due to many influences. |
| 2 | SC-2.7a | Seasonal changes: Key concepts include effects on growth and behavior of living things (migration, hibernation, camouflage, adaptation, dormancy); and |
| 2 | SC-2.8a | Plants importance Key concepts include important plant products (fiber, cotton, oil, spices, lumber, rubber, medicines, and paper); |
| 3 | SC-3.4a | animal adaptations: methods of gathering and storing food, finding shelter, defending themselves, and rearing young; |
| 3 | SC-3.4b | animal adaptations: hibernation, migration, camouflage, mimicry, instinct, and learned behavior. |
| 3 | SC-3.5b | food chains. Key concepts include herbivore, carnivore, omnivore |
| 3 | SC-3.6a | environments Key concepts include water-related environments (pond, marshland, swamp, stream, river, and ocean environments); |
| 3 | SC-3.8b | Key concepts include animal and plant life cycles. |
| 4 | SC-4.5e | Key concepts include life cycles |
| 4 | SC-4.5f | Key concepts include influence of human activity on ecosystems. |
| K | SC-K.6b | basic needs plants and animals. Key concepts include plants and animals live and die (go through a life cycle); and |
| K | SC-K.6c | Key concepts include offspring of plants and animals are similar but not identical to their parents and to one another. |
