Alignment to Standards for IN
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC-1.2.6 | Describe and compare objects in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion. |
| 1 | SC-1.4.4 | Explain that most living things need water, food, and air. |
| 1 | SS-1.3.9 | Give examples of natural resources found locally and describe how people in the school and community use these resources. |
| 2 | SC-2.4.1 | Observe and identify different external features of plants and animals and describe how these features help them live in different environments. |
| 2 | SC-2.4.2 | Observe that and describe how animals may use plants, or even other animals, for shelter and nesting. |
| 2 | SC-2.4.3 | plants and animals both need to take in water, animals need to take in food & oxygen, and plants need light. |
| 2 | SC-2.4.5 | materials in nature, such as grass, twigs, sticks, and leaves, can be recycled and used again, sometimes in different forms, such as in birdsê nests. |
| 3 | SC-3.4.1 | living things can be sorted into groups in many ways using various features, such as how they look, where they live, and how they act, to decide which things belong to which group. |
| 3 | SC-3.4.2 | Explain that features used for grouping depend on the purpose of the grouping. |
| 3 | SC-3.4.6 | Explain that people need water, food, air, waste removal, and a particular range of temperatures, just as other animals do. |
| 4 | SC-4.4.2 | Investigate, observe, and describe that insects and various other organisms depend on dead plant and animal material for food. |
| 4 | SC-4.4.3 | organisms interact with one another in various ways, such as providing food, pollination, and seed dispersal. |
| 4 | SC-4.4.4 | some source of energy is needed for all organisms to stay alive and grow. |
| K | SC-K.4.1 | Give examples of plants and animals. |
| K | SC-K.4.2 | plants and animals, describing how they are alike and how they are different in the way they look and in the things they do. |
