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.4a. | Identify and use information on a map or globe (ie., map key or legend, compass rose, physical features, continents, oceans). |
| 2 | CC-2.III.4c. | Locate continents and oceans on a map or globe (ie., North America, Antarctica, Australia, Africa, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean). |
| 3 | SC-3.II | organisms depend on living and nonliving things within their environment. |
| 3 | SS-3.I.2a. | the major world ecosystems: desert, plain, tropic, tundra, grassland, mountain, forest, wetland |
| 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.1 | Describe the physical characteristics of Utahs wetlands, forests, and deserts. |
| 4 | SC-4.V.1c. | Locate examples of areas that have characteristics of wetlands, forests, or deserts in Utah. |
| 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). |
| 4 | SC-4.V.2c. | Describe some of the interactions between animals and plants of a given environment (e.g., woodpecker eats insects that live on trees of a forest, brine shrimp of the Great Salt Lake eat algae and birds feed on brine shrimp). |
| 4 | SC-4.V.4 | Observe and record the behavior of Utah animals. |
| 5 | SC-5.II.2a. | Identify specific geological features created by volcanoes, earthquakes, and uplift. |
| 5 | SC-5.II.2b. | Give examples of different landforms that are formed by volcanoes, earthquakes, and uplift (e.g., mountains, valleys, new lakes, canyons). |
| 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.2b. | some environments give one species a survival advantage over another (e.g., warm water favors fish such as carp, cold water favors fish such as trout, environments that burn regularly favor grasses, environments that do not often burn favor |
| 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.3a. | Recognize that maps and globes are symbols for actual places. |
| K | CC-K.III.3c. | Explore basic map and globe directions and characteristics (e.g., top, bottom, right, left, land, water, Arctic Ocean, Antarctica). |
