Alignment to Standards for UT
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | CC-2.III.1 | Investigate relationships between plants and animals and how living things change during their lives. |
| 2 | CC-2.III.1a. | Observe and describe relationships between plants and animals. |
| 2 | CC-2.III.1c. | Create pictures and stories about real animals and compare them to make-believe stories about animals. |
| 2 | CC-2.III.2a. | Observe and describe patterns of change in weather. |
| 2 | CC-2.III.2c. | Describe how weather affects people and animals. |
| 3 | SC-3.II | organisms depend on living and nonliving things within their environment. |
| 3 | SC-3.II.2b. | Predict the effects of changes in the environment (e.g., temperature, light, moisture) on a living organism. |
| 4 | SC-4.V.2 | Describe the common plants and animals found in Utah environments and how these organisms have adapted to the environment in which they live. |
| 4 | SC-4.V.2b. | Cite examples of physical features that allow particular plants and animals to live in specific environments (e.g., duck has webbed feet, cactus has waxy coating). |
| 4 | SC-4.V.4b. | Describe how the behavior and adaptations of Utah mammals help them survive winter (e.g., obtaining food, building homes, hibernation, migration). |
| 5 | SC-5.V | Students will understand that traits are passed from the parent organisms to their offspring, and that sometimes the offspring may possess variations of these traits that may help or hinder survival in a given environment. |
| 5 | SC-5.V.1b. | Identify similar physical traits of a parent organism and its offspring (e.g., trees and saplings, leopards and cubs, chickens and chicks). |
| 5 | SC-5.V.1d. | Contrast inherited traits with traits and behaviors that are not inherited but may be learned or induced by environmental factors (e.g., cat purring to cat meowing to be let out of the house; the round shape of a willow is inherited, while leaning away fr |
| 5 | SC-5.V.1e. | Investigate variations and similarities in plants grown from seeds of a parent plant (e.g., how seeds from the same plant species can produce different colored flowers or identical flowers). |
| 5 | SC-5.V.2 | Describe how some characteristics could give a species a survival advantage in a particular environment. |
| 5 | SC-5.V.2c. | a particular physical attribute may provide an advantage for survival in one environment but not in another (e.g., heavy fur in arctic climates keep animals warm whereas in hot desert climates it would cause overheating; flippers on such anim |
| K | CC-K.III.1 | Investigate changes in the seasons. |
| K | CC-K.III.1a. | Identify the seasons and represent each with pictures and songs. |
| K | CC-K.III.1b. | Observe and describe typical weather for each of the seasons. |
| K | CC-K.III.1d. | Observe and describe changes in behavior of animals as the seasons change. |
| K | CC-K.III.1e. | Describe how people change their behavior as the seasons change. |
| K | CC-K.III.2b. | Describe how young animals are different from adult animals. |
| K | CC-K.III.2e. | Distinguish between real and make-believe animal behaviors. |
