Alignment to Standards for GA
Grade | Number | Standard |
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1 | S1CS2. a | Use whole numbers in ordering, counting, identifying, measuring, and describing things and experiences. |
1 | S1CS2. b | Readily give the sums and differences of single-digit numbers in ordinary, practical contexts and judge the reasonableness of the answer. |
1 | S1CS4. c | Compare very different sizes, weights, ages (baby/adult), and speeds (fast/slow) of both human made and natural things. |
1 | S1L1. d. | Compare and describe various animalsãappearance, motion, growth, basic needs. |
2 | S2CS2. a. | Use whole numbers in ordering, counting, identifying, measuring, and describing things and experiences. |
2 | S2CS2. b. | Readily give the sums and differences of single-digit numbers in ordinary, practical contexts and judge the reasonableness of the answer. |
2 | S2E3. a. | effects that occur in a specific area caused by weather, plants, animals, and/or people. |
3 | S3CS2. a. | Add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers mentally, on paper, and with a calculator. |
3 | S3L1. d. | Explain what will happen to an organism if the habitat is changed. |
3 | S3L2. | recognize the effects of pollution and humans on the environment. |
4 | S4L1. | Students will describe the roles of organisms and the flow of energy within an ecosystem. |
4 | S4L1. a. | Identify the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in a community. |
4 | S4L1. b. | a food web/food chain beginning with sunlight and including producers, consumers, and decomposers. |
4 | S4L1. c. | Predict how changes in the environment would affect a community (ecosystem) of organisms. |
4 | S4L1. d. | effects on a population if some of the plants or animals in the community are scarce or if there are too many. |
4 | S4L2. b. | Identify factors that may have led to the extinction of some organisms. (reasons for threatened/endangered/conservation issues) |
5 | S5L1. | classify organisms into groups and relate how they determined the groups with how and why scientists use classification. |
5 | S5L1. a. | Demonstrate how animals are sorted into groups (vertebrate and invertebrate) and how vertebrates are sorted into groups (fish, amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal). |
K | SKCS2.a | Use whole numbers for counting, identifying, and describing things and experiences. |
K | SKCS5.A | Describe and compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion. |
K | SKL1. b | Group animals according to their observable features such as appearance, size, motion, where it lives, etc. (Example: A green frog has four legs and hops. A rabbit also hops.) |
K | SKL2. | Students will compare the similarities and differences in groups of organisms. |
K | SKL2. a | Explain the similarities and differences in animals. (color, size, appearance, etc.) |