Alignment to Standards for MD
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC-1.2.0.E.2. | Describe that some events in nature have repeating patterns. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.A.1. | Compare and explain how external features of plants and animals help them survive in different environments. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.A.1.b | Compare similar features in some animals and plants and explain how each of these enables the organism to satisfy basic needs. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.A.1.c | an organisms external features contribute to its ability to survive in an environment. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.A.1.d | Classify organisms according to one selected feature, such as body covering, and identify other similarities shared by organisms within each group formed. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.B.2. | Provide evidence that all organisms are made of parts that help them carry out the basic functions of life. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.B.2.a | humans and other animals have different body parts used to seek, find, and take in food. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.E.1. | Describe some of the ways in which animals depend on plants and on each other. |
| 1 | SC-1.3.0.E.1.a | Examine organisms in a wide variety of environments to gather information on how animals satisfy their need for food. |
| 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.c | Give reasons why people should take care of their environments. |
| 1 | SS-1.3.0.B.1. | Describe places in the environment using geographic characteristics |
| 1 | SS-1.3.0.B.1.a | Identify and describe physical characteristics of a place (physical features, climate, vegetation and animal life) |
| 1 | SS-1.4.0.A.2.a | Give examples of natural and human resources used in production, such as making butter, making ice cream, and building houses |
| 2 | SC-2.2.0.A.1.e | Changes caused by water, wind, etc. |
| 2 | SC-2.2.0.E.1. | Recognize and describe that the surface of Earth is more than half covered with water. |
| 2 | SC-2.2.0.E.1.a | Identify the many locations where water is found. |
| 2 | SC-2.3.0.F.1. | Explain that organisms can grow and survive in many very different habitats. |
| 2 | SC-2.3.0.F.1.a | Investigate a variety of familiar and unfamiliar habitats and describe how animals and plants found there maintain their lives and survive to reproduce. |
| 2 | SC-2.3.0.F.1.c | Explain that animals and plants sometimes cause changes in their environments. |
| 2 | SC-2.6.0.A.1. | Recognize and explain how Earths natural resources from the natural environment are used to meet human needs. |
| 2 | SC-2.6.0.A.1.a | Describe natural resources as something from the natural environment that is used to meet ones needs. |
| 2 | SC-2.6.0.A.1.b | Identify water, air, soil, minerals, animals, and plants as basic natural resources. |
| 2 | SC-2.6.0.A.1.c | Explain that food, fuels, and fibers are produced from basic natural resources. |
| 2 | SC-2.6.0.A.1.d | Identify ways that humans use Earths natural resources to meet their needs. |
| 2 | SC-2.6.0.B.1. | Recognize and describe that the activities of individuals or groups of individuals can affect the environment. |
| 2 | SS-2.3.0.B.1. | Classify places and regions in an environment using geographic characteristics |
| 2 | SS-2.3.0.B.1.b | Describe and classify regions using climate, vegetation, animal life, and natural/physical features |
| 2 | SS-2.3.0.D.1.b | Describe how and why people protect or fail to protect the environment |
| 3 | SC-3.2.0.C.1.b | Describe the natural features in their immediate outdoor environment, and compare the features with those of another region in Maryland. |
| 3 | SC-3.2.0.C.1.c | Identify and describe some features of the ocean floor: Mountains, Valleys, Canyons |
| 3 | SC-3.2.0.C.1.d | Recognize and explain that an ocean floor is land covered by water. |
| 3 | SC-3.2.0.E.1. | Recognize and describe that water can be found as a liquid or a solid on the Earths surface and as a gas in the Earths atmosphere. |
| 3 | SS-3.3.0.B.1.a | Compare places and regions using geographic features |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.A.1.a | a variety of animals or plants in both familiar and unfamiliar environments. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.C.1.c | some likenesses between parents and offspring are inherited (such as eye color in humans, nest building in birds, or flower color in plants) and other likenesses are learned (such as language in humans ) |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.D.1.a | Describe ways in which organisms in one habitat differ from those in another habitat and consider how these differences help them survive and reproduce. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.D.1.b | Explain that the characteristics of an organism affect its ability to survive and reproduce. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.E.1. | Recognize food as the source of materials that all living things need to grow and survive. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.E.1.c | Identify the things that are essential for plants to grow and survive. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.F.1.a | Explain ways that individuals and groups of organisms interact with each other and their environment. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.F.1b | Identify and describe the interactions of organisms present in a habitat: Competition for space, food, and water |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.F.1c | Identify and describe the interactions of organisms present in a habitat: Beneficial interactions: nesting, pollination, seed dispersal, oysters filtering as in the Chesapeake Bay, etc. |
| 4 | SC-4.3.0.F.1e | Explain that changes in an organisms habitat are sometimes beneficial to it and sometimes harmful. |
| 5 | SC-5.3.0.A.1. | Explain the idea that in any particular environment, some kinds of plants and animals survive well, some less well, and some cannot survive at all. |
| 5 | SC-5.3.0.A.1.a | features and behaviors of some of the plants and animals living in a familiar environment and explain ways that these organisms are well suited to their environment. |
| 5 | SC-5.3.0.A.1.b | Based on information about the features and behaviors of animals and plants from very different environments describe reasons that they might not survive if their environment changed or if they were moved from one environment to another. |
| 5 | SC-5.3.0.A.1.d | Research the kind of environment needed by the Maryland blue crab, the Black-eyed Susan (Marylands state flower), or another Maryland native organism. |
| 5 | SC-5.3.0.E.1. | Recognize that some source of energy is needed for all organisms to grow and survive. |
| 5 | SC-5.3.0.E.1.c | Plants and animals use food for energy and growth |
| 5 | SC-5.3.0.E.1.d | some insects and various other organisms depend on dead plant and animal material for food. |
| 5 | SC-5.6.0.A.1. | Recognize and explain how renewable and nonrenewable natural resources are used by humans in Maryland to meet basic needs. |
| 5 | SC-5.6.0.A.1.b | Describe how humans use renewable natural resources, such as plants, soil, water, animals. |
| 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 |
| K | SC-K.2.0.A.1.c | objects and materials, such as trees, rocks, and hills on Earths surface can change. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.A.1. | familiar animals and plants: patterns of similarity and difference among them. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.A.1.a | features (observable parts) of animals and plants that make some of them alike in the way they look and the things they do. |
| 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.A.1.c | Identify a feature that distinguishes animals that fly (as an example) from animals that cannot and examine a variety of animals that can fly to discover other similar features they might share. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.A.1.d | Compare ideas about how the features of animals and plants affect what these animals are able to do. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.A.2.c | similarities in what both humans and other animals are able to do because they possess certain external features. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.D.1. | living things are found almost everywhere in the world and that there are somewhat different kinds of living things in different places. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.D.1.a | Observe, describe, and give examples and describe the many kinds of living things found in different places in Maryland. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.D.1.c | Explain that the external features of plants and animals affect how well they thrive in different kinds of places. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.E.1. | Develop an awareness of the relationship of features of living things and their ability to satisfy basic needs that support their growth and survival. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.F.1. | Investigate a variety of familiar places where plants and animals live to describe the place and the living things found there. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.F.1.a | Describe observations of the place and some of the living things found there. |
| K | SC-K.3.0.F.1.c | Describe ways that animals and plants found in each place interact with each other and with their environment. |
| K | SC-K.6.0.B.1.b | Identify features of the natural environment that are not made by humans. |
| K | SS-K-3.0.B.1.a | Recognize physical features as landforms and bodies of water using photographs and pictures |
| K | SS-K-3.0.B.1.b | Identify land forms, such as mountains and hills, and bodies of water, such as oceans, rivers, and streams |
| K | SS-K-4.0.A.2.c | natural resources, such as water, trees, and plants are used to make products |
| 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 | SC-PK.3.0.A.1.b | some plants are alike in the way they look and in the things they do. |
| PK | SC-PK.3.0.A.1.d | Identify some of the things that all animals do, such as eat, move around and explain how their features (observable parts) help them do these things. |
| PK | SS-PK-3.0.B.1.e | Discuss that places have natural/physical features such as mountains, rivers, and hills |
| PK-4 | SS-PK&K.-4.0.A.2. | Identify that materials/resources are used to make products |
