Alignment to Standards for MN
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.4.1.1.1 | Describe and sort animals into groups in many ways, according to their physical characteristics and behaviors. |
| 1 | 1.4.3.1.1 | Plants and animals undergo a series of orderly changes during their life cycles. |
| 2 | 2.4.1.1.1 | Describe and sort plants into groups in many ways, according to their physical characteristics and behaviors. |
| 3 | 3.4.1.1.1 | Compare how the different structures of plants and animals serve various functions of growth, survival and reproduction. |
| 3 | 3.4.1.1.2 | Identify common groups of plants and animals using observable physical characteristics, structures and behaviors. |
| 5 | 5.4.4.1.1 | Humans change environments in ways that can be either beneficial or harmful to themselves and other organisms. Give examples of beneficial and harmful human interaction with natural systems. For example: Recreation, pollution, wildlife management. |
| K | 0.4.1.1.1 | Observe and compare plants and animals. |
| K | 0.4.1.1.2 | Living things are diverse with many different observable characteristics. Identify the external parts of a variety of plants and animals including humans. |
| K-3 | K-3.V.A.2 | use maps and globes to locate places referenced in stories and real life situations. |
| K-3 | K-3.V.B. | use maps and globes to locate people, places and things. |
| K-3 | K-3.V.B.1 | locate places by using simple maps, and understand that maps are drawings of locations and places as viewed from above. |
| K-3 | K-3.V.B.4 | locate the continents and oceans on a map of the world and a globe. |
| K-3 | K-3.V.C.1 | name and locate physical features of the United States, including places about which they have read. |
