Alignment to Standards for UT
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CC-1.III.2d. | Describe how plants and people need, use, and receive water. |
| 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.1b. | Describe the life cycle of local plants and animals using diagrams and pictures. |
| 4 | SC-4.V | Students will understand the physical characteristics of Utahs wetlands, forests, and deserts and identify common organisms for each environment. |
| 4 | SC-4.V.2a. | Identify common plants and animals that inhabit Utahs forests, wetlands, and deserts. |
| 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). |
| 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). |
| K | CC-K.III.2 | Observe and describe animals in the local environment. |
| K | CC-K.III.2b. | Describe how young animals are different from adult animals. |
| K | CC-K.III.2c. | Describe how animals care for their young. |
