Alignment to Standards for NC
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC:1.E.2 | Understand the physical properties of Earth materials that make them useful in different ways. |
| 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 | SS:2-5.04 | Identify the absolute and relative location of communities. |
| 2 | SS:2-5.06 | Identify and describe the people, vegetation, and animal life specific to certain regions and describe their interdependence. |
| 2 | SS:2-6.01 | Identify natural resources and cite ways people conserve and replenish natural resources. |
| 3 | SC:3.L.2.2 | Explain how environmental conditions determine how well plants survive and grow. |
| 3 | SC:3.P.2.3 | changes occur to the observable properties of materials when different degrees of heat are applied to them, such as melting ice or ice cream, boiling water or an egg, or freezing water. |
| 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.2 | Understand the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystem. |
| 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.2.2 | Classify the organisms within an ecosystem according to the function they serve: producers, consumers, or decomposers (biotic factors). |
| 5 | SC:5.L.2.3 | Infer the effects that may result from the interconnected relationship of plants and animals to their ecosystem. |
| 5 | SC:5.L.3.2 | Give examples of likenesses that are inherited and some that are not. |
| 5 | SC:5.P.2 | Understand the interactions of matter and energy and the changes that occur. |
| K | SC:K.L.1 | Compare characteristics of animals that make them alike and different from other animals and nonliving things. |
| K | SC:K.P.2.1 | Classify objects by observable physical properties (including size, color, shape, texture, weight and flexibility). |
