Alignment to Standards for KY
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | SC-04-2.3.1 | classify earth materials by the ways that they are used; |
| 4 | SC-04-2.3.3 | make generalizations and/or predictions about weather changes from day to day and over seasons based on weather data. |
| 4 | SC-04-2.3.3a | Weather changes from day to day and over seasons. |
| 4 | SC-04-3.4.1b | make inferences about the relationship between structure and function in organisms. Each plant or animal has structures that serve different functions in growth, survival and reproduction. For example, humans have distinct body structures for walking |
| 4 | SC-04-4.6.1 | the basic relationships of plants and animals in an ecosystem (food chain). |
| 4 | SC-04-4.6.1a | Plants make their own food. All animals depend on plants. Some animals eat plants for food. Other animals eat animals that eat the plants. |
| 4 | SC-04-4.7.1a | patterns of evidence related to the survival and reproductive success of organisms in particular environments. |
| 4 | SC-04-4.7.1b | Distinct environments support the lives of different types of organisms. |
| 4 | SC-4-ET-S-1 | observe/construct, analyze patterns and explain basic relationships of plants and animals in an ecosystem (e.g., food webs) |
| 4 | SC-4-ET-U-2 | light and heat from the sun are essential to sustaining most life on earth. Plants change energy from the sunês light into energy that is used as food by the plant. |
| 4 | SC-4-I-U-1 | all living things depend on their environment and other organisms within it for their survival. Certain patterns of behavior or physical features may help an organism survive in some environments yet perish in others. |
| 4 | SC-4-I-U-2 | environmental relationships extend beyond food (e.g. shelter, seed transport). |
| 4 | SC-4-UD-U-2 | characteristics of living things can be used to sort them into various groups: the characteristics chosen to establish the grouping depend on the reason for the grouping. |
| 5 | SC-05-3.5.1 | cause and effect relationships between enhanced survival/reproductive success and particular biological adaptations (e.g., changes in structures, behaviors, and/or physiology) to generalize about the diversity of species. |
| 5 | SC-05-3.5.2 | all organisms must be able to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce, and maintain stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment. |
| 5 | SC-05-4.7.1 | categorize populations of organisms according to the function they serve in an ecosystem (e.g., producers, consumers, decomposers); |
| 5 | SC-5-BC-S-2 | adaptations of various organisms to their environments through observations as well as print and non-print based resources |
| 5 | SC-5-BC-S-3 | ways that organisms cope with fluctuations (e.g. temperature, precipitation, change in food sources) in their environments |
| 5 | SC-5-BC-U-3 | successful organisms must be able to maintain the basic functions of life in response to normal environmental fluctuations (e.g. day/night, seasonal temperature changes, precipitation). |
| Primary | SC-EP-1.1.1 | Students will classify material objects by their properties providing evidence to support their classifications. Objects are made of one or more materials such as paper, wood, and metal. Objects can be described by the properties of the materials from whi |
| Primary | SC-EP-1.1.2 | Students will understand that objects have many observable properties such as size, mass, shape, color, temperature, magnetism, and the ability to interact and/or to react with other substances. Some properties can be measured using tools such as metric r |
| Primary | SC-EP-2.3.2 | describe patterns in weather and weather data in order to make simple predictions based on those patterns discovered. |
| Primary | SC-EP-2.3.2a | Weather changes from day to day and over seasons. |
| Primary | SC-EP-3.4.2 | Students will understand that things in the environment are classified as living, nonliving and once living. Living things differ from nonliving things. Organisms are classified into groups by using various characteristics (e.g., body coverings, body stru |
| Primary | SC-EP-3.4.3 | Students will describe the basic structures and related functions of plants and animals that contribute to growth, reproduction and survival. |
| Primary | SC-EP-3.4.3a | Each plant or animal has observable structures that serve different functions in growth, survival and reproduction. For example, humans have distinct body structures for walking, holding, seeing and talking. These observable structures should be explored |
| Primary | SC-EP-4.6.1 | basic relationships of plants and animals in an ecosystem (food chains/interdependance). |
| Primary | SC-EP-4.6.2 | Plants make their own food. All animals depend on plants. Some animals eat plants for food. Other animals eat animals that eat the plants. Basic relationships and connections between organisms in food chains can be used to discover patterns within ecosystems |
| Primary | SC-EP-4.7.1 | cause and effect relationships existing between organisms and their environments. |
| Primary | SC-EP-4.7.1a | Organisms require an environment in which their needs can be met. When the environment changes some plants and animals survive and reproduce and others die or move to new locations. |
| Primary | SC-P-BC-U-2 | understand that living things are found almost everywhere on our planet, but organisms living in one place may be different from those found somewhere else. |
| Primary | SC-P-ET-S-3 | basic relationships of plants and animals in an ecosystem (simple food chains and webs) |
| Primary | SC-P-EU-S-2 | Students will explore how earth materials are used for certain things because of their properties |
| Primary | SC-P-EU-U-1 | people use a variety of earth materials for different purposes because of their different properties. All products that people use somehow come from the Earth. |
| Primary | SC-P-EU-U-2 | Students will understand that some events in nature have a repeating pattern. Weather changes from day to day, but things such as temperature or precipitation tend to be similar (high, medium or low) in the same months every year. |
| Primary | SC-P-I-S-2 | how organisms depend on their environments |
| Primary | SC-P-I-U-1 | the world has many different environments. Distinct environments support the lives of different types of organisms. |
| Primary | SC-P-STM-S-1 | Students will use senses to observe and describe properties of material objects (color, size, shape, texture, flexibility, magnetism) |
| Primary | SC-P-STM-S-4 | Students will classify water and other matter using one or more physical properties |
| Primary | SC-P-UD-S-3 | Students will investigate adaptations that enable animals and plants to grow, reproduce and survive (e.g., movements, body coverings, method of reproduction) |
| Primary | SC-P-UD-S-4 | Students will analyze structures of plants and animals to make inferences about the types of environments for which they are suited |
| Primary | SC-P-UD-U-2 | plants and animals have features that help them live in different environments. |
| Primary | SC-P-UD-U-3 | some animals are alike in the way they look and in the things they do, and others are very different from one another. |
| Primary | SS-P-E-S-1a | investigate and give examples of resources |
