Alignment to Standards for TX
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 112.12 (b) (10) | organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments. |
| 1 | 112.12 (b) (10) (A) | external characteristics of an animal are related to where it lives, how it moves, and what it eats |
| 1 | 112.12 (b) (9) | the living environment is composed of relationships between organisms and the life cycles that occur. |
| 1 | 112.12 (b) (9) (C) | interdependence among living organisms such as energy transfer through food chains and animals using plants for shelter. |
| 1 | 113.3. (1.5) | The student understands the purpose of maps and globes. |
| 1 | 113.3. (1.6) (A) | physical characteristics of places such as landforms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather; |
| 2 | 112.13. (b) (10) (A) | compare how the physical characteristics and behaviors of animals help them meet their basic needs such as fins help fish move and balance in the water |
| 2 | 112.13. (b) (9) | living organisms have basic needs that must be met for them to survive within their environment. |
| 2 | 112.13. (b) (9) (A) | identify the basic needs of plants and animals |
| 2 | 112.13. (b) (9) (C) | ways living organisms depend on each other and on their environments such as food chains |
| 2 | 113.4. (2.10) (C) | trace the development of a product from a natural resource to a finished product. |
| 2 | 113.4. (2.5) | uses simple geographic tools such as maps, globes, and photographs. |
| 2 | 113.4. (2.5) (A) | use symbols, find locations, and determine directions on maps and globes; and |
| 2 | 113.4. (2.6) | locations and characteristics of places and regions. |
| 2 | 113.4. (2.6) (A) | identify major landforms and bodies of water, including continents and oceans, on maps and globes; |
| 3 | 112.14. (b) (10) | organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that help them survive within their environments. |
| 3 | 112.14. (b) (10) (A) | explore how structures and functions of plants and animals allow them to survive in a particular environment |
| 3 | 112.14. (b) (10) (B) | some characteristics of organisms are inherited such as the number of limbs on an animal or flower color and recognize that some behaviors are learned in response to living in a certain environment such as animals using tools to get food |
| 3 | 112.14. (b) (7) | Earth consists of natural resources and its surface is constantly changing. |
| 3 | 112.14. (b) (7) (B) | rapid changes in Earths surface such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and landslides |
| 3 | 112.14. (b) (7) (C) | identify and compare different landforms, including mountains, hills, valleys, and plains |
| 3 | 112.14. (b) (9) | organisms have characteristics that help them survive and can describe patterns, cycles, systems, and relationships within the environments. |
| 3 | 112.14. (b) (9) (A) | physical characteristics of environments and how they support populations and communities within an ecosystem |
| 3 | 112.14. (b) (9) (B) | identify and describe the flow of energy in a food chain and predict how changes in a food chain affect the ecosystem such as removal of frogs from a pond or bees from a field |
| 3 | 112.14. (b) (9) (C) | describe environmental changes such as floods and droughts where some organisms thrive and others perish or move to new locations. |
| 3 | 113.5. (3.16) (B) | sequence and categorize information; |
| 3 | 113.5. (3.4) (C) | describe the effects of physical and human processes in shaping the landscape; and |
| 3 | 113.5. (3.5) (A) | use cardinal and intermediate directions to locate places such as the Amazon River, Himalayan Mountains, and Washington D.C. on maps and globes; |
| 4 | 112.15. (b) (10) | organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that help them survive within their environment. |
| 4 | 112.15. (b) (10) (A) | explore how adaptations enable organisms to survive in their environment such as comparing birds beaks and leaves on plants |
| 4 | 112.15. (b) (7) (B) | slow changes to Earths surface caused by weathering, erosion, and deposition from water, wind, and ice |
| 4 | 112.15. (b) (9) | living organisms within an ecosystem interact with one another and with their environment. |
| 4 | 112.15. (b) (9)(B) | describe the flow of energy through food webs, beginning with the Sun, and predict how changes in the ecosystem affect the food web such as a fire in a forest. |
| 5 | 112.16. (b) (10) | organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that help them survive within their environments. |
| 5 | 112.16. (b) (10) (A) | compare the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive such as hooves on prairie animals or webbed feet in aquatic animals |
| 5 | 112.16. (b) (10) (B) | differentiate between inherited traits of plants and animals such as spines on a cactus or shape of a beak and learned behaviors such as an animal learning tricks or a child riding a bicycle |
| 5 | 112.16. (b) (7) | Earths surface is constantly changing and consists of useful resources. |
| 5 | 112.16. (b) (9) | there are relationships, systems, and cycles within environments. |
| K | 111.12 (K.11) | uses time to describe, compare, and order events and situations. |
| K | 111.12 (K.11) (B) | is expected to sequence events (up to three). |
| K | 112.11 (b) (10) | organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments. |
| K | 112.11 (b) (9) | plants and animals have basic needs and depend on the living and nonliving things around them for survival. |
| K | 112.11 (b) (9) (B) | examine evidence that living organisms have basic needs such as food, water, and shelter for animals and air, water, nutrients, sunlight, and space for plants. |
| K | 113.2. (K.15) (C) | sequence and categorize information; and |
| K | 113.2. (K.16) (B) | create and interpret visuals including pictures and maps. |
| K | 113.2. (K.5) (A) | identify the physical characteristics of places such as landforms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather; and |
| PK | PK.1. (J) | compares objects and organisms and identifies similarities and differences |
| PK | PK.1. (K) | sorts objects and organisms into groups and begins to describe how groups were organized |
| PK | PK.2. (B) | describes properties of objects and characteristics of living things |
| PK | PK.2. (F) | begins to recognize that living things have similar needs for water, food, and air |
| PK | PK.2. (I) | identifies similarities and differences among objects and organisms |
