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) (10) (C) | compare ways that young animals resemble their parents |
| 1 | 112.12 (b) (10) (D) | observe and record life cycles of animals such as a chicken, frog, or fish. |
| 1 | 112.12 (b) (8) (C) | identify characteristics of the seasons of the year and day and night |
| 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. (1.3) | The student understands the concepts of time and chronology. |
| 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) (8) (B) | identify the importance of weather and seasonal information to make choices in clothing, activities, and transportation |
| 2 | 112.13. (b) (9) (B) | factors in the environment, including temperature and precipitation, that affect growth and behavior such as migration, hibernation, and dormancy of living things |
| 2 | 112.13. (b) (9) (C) | ways living organisms depend on each other and on their environments such as food chains |
| 2 | 113.4. (2.2) (D) | describe and measure calendar time by days, weeks, months, and years. |
| 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) (10) (C) | how animals and plants undergo a series of orderly changes in their diverse life cycles such as tomato plants, frogs, and lady bugs. |
| 3 | 112.14. (b) (9) | organisms have characteristics that help them survive and can describe patterns, cycles, systems, and relationships within the environments. |
| 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) (10) (C) | explore, illustrate, and compare life cycles in living organisms such as butterflies, beetles, radishes, or lima beans. |
| 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 |
| 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 | 111.12 (K.11) (C) | is expected to read a calendar using days, weeks, and months. |
| 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) (8) (A) | observe and describe weather changes from day to day and over seasons |
