Alignment to Standards for NC
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC:1.L.1.2 | Give examples of how the needs of different plants and animals can be met by their environments in North Carolina or different places throughout the world. |
| 2 | SC:2.L.2.1 | Identify ways in which many plants and animals closely resemble their parents in observed appearance and ways they are different. |
| 2 | SC:2.L.2.2 | Recognize that there is variation among individuals that are related. |
| 2 | SS:2-5.06 | Identify and describe the people, vegetation, and animal life specific to certain regions and describe their interdependence. |
| 4 | SC:4.L.1 | effects of environmental changes, adaptations and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats. |
| 4 | SC:4.L.1.2 | how animals meet their needs by using behaviors in response to information received from the environment. |
| 5 | SC:5.L.1 | structures and systems of organisms perform functions necessary for life. |
| 5 | SC:5.L.2.1 | Compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems, including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests, and grasslands). |
| 5 | SC:5.L.3 | Understand why organisms differ from or are similar to their parents based on the characteristics of the organism. |
| 5 | SC:5.L.3.2 | Give examples of likenesses that are inherited and some that are not. |
| K | SC:K.L.1 | Compare characteristics of animals that make them alike and different from other animals and nonliving things. |
| K | SC:K.L.1.1 | Compare different types of the same animal (i.e. different types of dogs, different types of cats, etc.) to determine individual differences within a particular type of animal. |
