Alignment to Standards for SC
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC:1-1.1 | Compare, classify, and sequence objects by number, shape, texture, size, color, and motion, using English units of measurement where appropriate. |
| 1 | SC:1-2.3 | Classify plants according to their characteristics (including what specific type of environment they live in, whether they have edible parts, and what particular kinds of physical traits they have). |
| 1 | SC:1-4.1 | Recognize the composition of Earth (including rocks, sand, soil, and water). |
| 1 | SC:1-4.4 | Recognize the observable properties of water (including the fact that it takes the shape of its container, flows downhill, and feels wet). |
| 1 | SC:1-4.6 | Exemplify Earth materials that are used for building structures or for growing plants. |
| 2 | SC:2-2.2 | Classify animals (including mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, and insects) according to their physical characteristics. |
| 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. |
| 2 | SC:2-4.3 | matter can be changed in ways such as heating or cooling, cutting or tearing, bending or stretching. |
| 3 | SC:3-1.1 | Classify objects by two of their properties (attributes). |
| 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:3-2.4 | Explain how changes in the habitats of plants and animals affect their survival. |
| 3 | SC:3-3.5 | Illustrate Earths saltwater and freshwater features (including oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, and glaciers). |
| 3 | SC:3-3.6 | Illustrate Earths land features (including volcanoes, mountains, valleys, canyons, caverns, and islands) by using models, pictures, diagrams, and maps. |
| 3 | SC:3-3.7 | Exemplify Earth materials that are used as fuel, as a resource for building materials, and as a medium for growing plants. |
| 3 | SC:3-3.8 | Illustrate changes in Earths surface that are due to slow processes (including weathering, erosion, and deposition) and changes that are due to rapid processes (including landslides, volcanic eruptions, floods, and earthquakes). |
| 4 | SC:4-2.1 | Classify organisms into major groups (including plants or animals, flowering or nonflowering plants, and vertebrates [fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals] or invertebrates) according to their physical characteristics. |
| 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:5-3.1 | natural processes (including weathering, erosion, deposition, landslides, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and floods) affect Earths oceans and land in constructive and destructive ways. |
| 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 | SS:K-5.4 | Recognize natural features of the environment, including mountains and bodies of water, through pictures, literature, and models. |
