Alignment to Standards for ND
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC-1.4.1. | Identify plants and animals that closely resemble their parents and one another |
| 1 | SC-1.5.1. | Explain that short-term weather conditions can change daily, and how weather affects peopleês daily activities |
| 1 | SC-1.7.2. | humans influence their environment (e.g., littering, recycling, car pooling) |
| 2 | SC-2.4.1. | Identify how plants and animals are alike and different (e.g., in the way they look, in their behaviors) |
| 2 | SC-2.4.2. | Identify various things that are found in different environments (e.g., cactus, lizard _ desert; shark, coral- ocean) |
| 2 | SC-2.5.1. | Describe the patterns and characteristics of the four seasons, and how these changes in weather influence plant, animal, and human |
| 2 | SC-2.7.2. | some things (second-hand smoke, pollution) from our environment that are harmful to people |
| 3 | SC-3.1.1. | Identify changes that are repetitive (e.g., seasons, day and night, water cycle) |
| 3 | SC-3.4.1.¾ | Identify parts of an organism that have specific functions (e.g., roots absorb water, heart pumps blood) |
| 3 | SC-3.4.2. | life cycles of plants and animals (e.g., birds, mammals, grasses, trees, insects, flowers) |
| 4 | SC-4.4.1. | Classify plants and animals according to common physical characteristics |
| 4 | SC-4.4.2. | Identify adaptations that help plants and animals survive and grow in their environment |
| 4 | SC-4.4.3. | Identify behaviors of animals as instinctive or learned |
| 4 | SC-4.4.4. | Identify ways that an organismês pattern of behavior is related to the nature of the organismês environment |
| 4 | SC-4.7.1. | consequences of natural and human-induced environmental changes (e.g., erosion, tsunami, deforestation) |
| 5 | SC-5.1.2 | Explain how changes alter the balance within a system (e.g., the effects of limited resources on populations, global climate change, flood, drought) |
| 5 | SC-5.5.5. | Identify the objects in the sky that have predictable patterns of movement (e.g., sun, planets, moons, stars) |
| K | SC-K.4.1.¾¾ | animals eat plants or other animals for food |
