Alignment to Standards for SC
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC:1-2.1 | basic needs of plants (air, water, nutrients, space, and light) for energy and growth. |
| 1 | SC:1-2.5 | distinct environments throughout the world support the life of different types of plants. |
| 2 | SC:2-2.1 | Recall the basic needs of animals (including air, water, food, and shelter) for energy, growth, and protection. |
| 2 | SC:2-2.3 | distinct environments throughout the world support the life of different types of animals. |
| 2 | SC:2-2.4 | Summarize the interdependence between animals and plants as sources of food and shelter. |
| 3 | SC:3-2.2 | Explain how physical and behavioral adaptations allow organisms to survive (including hibernation, defense, locomotion, movement, food obtainment, and camouflage for animals and seed dispersal, color, and response to light for plants). |
| 3 | SC:3-2.3 | Recall the characteristics of an organisms habitat that allow the organism to survive there. |
| 3 | SC:3-3.6 | Illustrate Earths land features (including volcanoes, mountains, valleys, canyons, caverns, and islands) by using models, pictures, diagrams, and maps. |
| 4 | SC:4-2.2 | the characteristics of distinct environments (including swamps, rivers and streams, tropical rain forests, deserts, and the polar regions) influence the variety of organisms in each. |
| 4 | SC:4-2.4 | Distinguish between the characteristics of an organism that are inherited and those that are acquired over time. |
| 4 | SC:4-2.5 | Explain how an organisms patterns of behavior are related to its environment (including the kinds and the number of other organisms present, the availability of food and other resources, and the physical characteristics of the environment). |
| 5 | SC:5-2.2 | composition of an ecosystem, considering both biotic factors (including populations to the level of microorganisms and communities) and abiotic factors. |
| 5 | SC:5-2.3 | characteristics of different ecosystems (including estuaries/salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests, and grasslands). |
| 5 | SC:5-3.2 | Illustrate the geologic landforms of the ocean floor (including the continental shelf and slope, the mid-ocean ridge, rift zone, trench, and the ocean basin). |
| 5 | SC:5-3.3 | Compare continental and oceanic landforms. |
| K | SC:K-2.1 | Recognize what organisms need to stay alive (including air, water, food, and shelter). |
| K | SC:K-2.2 | Identify examples of organisms and nonliving things. |
| K | SC:K-2.3 | Match parents with their offspring to show that plants and animals closely resemble their parents. |
| K | SS:K-5.4 | Recognize natural features of the environment, including mountains and bodies of water, through pictures, literature, and models. |
