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1 1)3.a. Classify animals and plants by observable features (e.g., size, appearance, color, motion, habitat).
1 1)3.d. Chart and compare the growth and changes of animals from birth to adulthood.
1 1)3.d. Categorize types of actions that cause water, air, or land pollution.
1 SS 1)5.a Identify settings of read-aloud stories as geographic locations
2 2)3.a. Describe and categorize the characteristics of animals (vertebrates or invertebrates, cold-blooded or warm-blooded)
2 2)3.c. cause/effect relationships when basic needs of plants and animals are met and when they are not met.
2 2)3.d. Compare the life cycles of plants and animals.
2 2)3.e.2 Investigate and explain the interdependence of plants and animals: Predator-prey relationships
2 2)4.d. Distinguish how actions or events related to the Earthês environment may be harmful or helpful.
3 3)3.a. diverse life forms (including vertebrates and invertebrates) that live in different environments (e.g., deserts, tundras, forests, grasslands, taigas, wetlands) and the structures that serve different functions in their survival (e.g.
3 3)3.c. relationships between the basic needs of different organisms and discern how adaptations enable an organism to survive in a particular environment.
3 3)3.d. Illustrate how the adult animal will look, when given pictures of young animals (e.g., birds, fish, cats, frogs, caterpillars, etc.)
3 3)4.d. Identify the causes and effects of various types of air, land, and water pollution and infer ways to protect the environment.
3 SS 3)1.b how human activities alter the environment ( reservoirs, dams, slash and burn forests, construction).
4 4)3.a.1 Observable traits due to inherited or environmental adaptations
4 4)3.a.2 Variations in environment (over time and from place to place)
4 4)3.c. Compare characteristics of organisms, including growth and development, reproduction, acquisition and use of energy, and response to the environment.
4 4)3.c.1 Life cycles of various animals to include complete and incomplete metamorphosis
4 4)3.c.2 Plant or animal structures that serve different functions in growth, adaptation, and survival
4 4)4.d.1 human activities: Reducing the amount of forest cover
5 5)3.a.1 Diversity based on kingdoms, phyla, and classes (e.g., internal/external structure, body temperature, size, shape)
5 5)3.b.1 Research and classify the organization of living things: Differences between plant and animal cells
5 5)4.d. changes caused by humans on the environment, ways to conserve natural resources in the United States, including (but not limited to) Mississippi.
K K)3.a Group animals and plants by their physical features (e.g., size, appearance, color).
K K)3.d. Identify offspring that resemble their parents.



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