Alignment to Standards for CA
Grade | Number | Standard |
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1 | 1 S ES--3.b. | weather changes from day to day but that trends in temperature or of rain (or snow) tend to be predictable during a season. |
1 | 1 S LS--2 | Plants and animals meet their needs in different ways. |
1 | 1 S LS--2.a. | Different plants and animals inhabit different kinds of environments and have external features that help them thrive in different kinds of places. |
1 | 1 S LS--2.c. | animals eat plants or other animals for food and may also use plants or even other animals for shelter and nesting. |
1 | 1 SS 2)1 | Locate on maps and globes their local community, California, the United States, the seven continents, and the four oceans. |
2 | 2 S LS--2.c. | many characteristics of an organism are inherited from the parents. Some characteristics are caused or influenced by the environment. |
2 | 2 SS 2) | demonstrate map skills by describing the absolute and relative locations of people, places, and environments. |
3 | 3 S LS--3 | Adaptations in physical structure or behavior may improve an organisms chance for survival. |
3 | 3 S LS--3.a. | plants and animals have structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction. |
3 | 3 S LS--3.d. | when the environment changes, some plants and animals survive and reproduce; others die or move to new locations. |
3 | 3 SS 1) | physical and human geography and use maps, tables, graphs, photographs, and charts to organize information about people, places, and environments in a spatial context. |
3 | 3 SS 1)1 | Identify geographical features in their local region (e.g., deserts, mountains, valleys, hills, coastal areas, oceans, lakes). |
4 | 4 S ES--5 | Waves, wind, water, and ice shape and reshape Earths land surface. |
4 | 4 S ES--5.a. | some changes in the earth are due to slow processes, such as erosion, and some changes are due to rapid processes, such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes. |
4 | 4 S ES--5.c. | moving water erodes landforms, reshaping the land by taking it away from some places and depositing it as pebbles, sand, silt, and mud in other places (weathering, transport, and deposition). |
4 | 4 S LS--3 | Living organisms depend on one another and on their environment for survival. |
4 | 4 S LS--3.b. | in any particular environment, some kinds of plants and animals survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. |
5 | 5 S ES--.4.c. | the causes and effects of different types of severe weather. |
K | K S ES--3.b. | changes in weather occur from day to day and across seasons, affecting Earth and its inhabitants. |
K | K S LS--2 | Different types of plants and animals inhabit the earth. |
K | K S LS--2.a. | similarities and differences in the appearance and behavior of plants and animals (e.g., seed-bearing plants, birds, fish, insects). |
K | K S LS--2.c. | identify major structures of common plants and animals (e.g., stems, leaves, roots, arms, wings, legs). |
K | K SS 4)2 | Distinguish between land and water on maps and globes and locate general areas referenced in historical legends and stories. |