Alignment to Standards for MD
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC-1.6.0.B.1. | Recognize that caring about the environment is an important human activity. |
| 1 | SC-1.6.0.B.1.a | Recognize and describe that individual and group actions, such as recycling, help the environment. |
| 1 | SC-1.6.0.B.1.c | Give reasons why people should take care of their environments. |
| 1 | SS-1.3.0.D.1.a | Describe how people in a community modify their environment to meet changing needs for shelter, such as clearing land for a housing community |
| 1 | SS-1.3.0.D.1.b | Describe why and how people protect the environment |
| 1,2 | SS-1-3.3.0.D.1. | Explain how people modify, protect and adapt to their environment |
| 2 | SC-2.6.0.B.1. | Recognize and describe that the activities of individuals or groups of individuals can affect the environment. |
| 2 | SC-2.6.0.B.1.a | Identify and describe that individual and group actions, such as turning off lights, conserving water, recycling, picking up litter, or joining an organization can extend the natural resources of the environment. |
| 2 | SS-2.3.0.D.1.b | Describe how and why people protect or fail to protect the environment |
| 3 | SS-3.3.0.D.1.a | Describe how people in a community modify their environment to meet changing needs for transportation, shelter and making a living |
| 3 | SS-3.3.0.D.1.b | Describe why and how people make decisions about protecting the environment |
| 4 | SC-4.6.0.B.1. | Identify and describe that human activities in a Maryland community or region are affected by environmental factors |
| 5 | SC-5.6.0.B.1.a | personal and community behaviors that waste natural resources and/or cause environmental harm and those behaviors that maintain or improve the environment. |
| 5 | SC-5.6.0.B.1.b | Identify and describe that individuals and groups assess and manage risk to the environment differently. |
| 5 | SC-5.6.0.B.2.b | human activities may have a negative consequence on the natural environment: Damage or destruction done to habitats, Air, water, and land pollution |
| 5 | SC-5.6.0.B.2.c | an environmental issue affects individual people and groups of people differently. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.A.1.b | features that make some animals and some plants very different from one another. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.D.1.b | describe and compare living things found in other states such as Texas and Alaska to those found in Maryland. |
| K | SS-K-3.0.D.1. | Describe how people adapt to and modify their immediate environment |
| PK | SC-PK.3.0.A.1. | familiar plants and animals to describe how they are alike and how they are different. |
| PK | SC-PK.3.0.A.1.a | how some animals are alike in the way they look and in the things they do. |
| PK | SS-PK-3.0.D.1. | Describe how people adapt to their immediate environment |
