Alignment to Standards for VA
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SC-1.5b | animal characteristics:body coverings, body shape, appendages, and methods of movement) |
| 1 | SC-1.5c | animal characteristics. Key concepts include other characteristics (wild/tame, water homes/land homes). |
| 2 | GEO-2.5a | locating the equator, the seven continents, and the four oceans on maps and globes; |
| 2 | MA-2.18a) | use calendar language appropriately (e.g., months, today, yesterday, next week, last week); |
| 2 | SC-2.5a | living things are part of a system. Key concepts include living organisms are interdependent with their living and nonliving surroundings; and |
| 2 | SC-2.5b | living things are part of a system. Key concepts include habitats change over time due to many influences. |
| 3 | GEO-3.6 | The student will interpret geographic information from maps, tables, graphs, and charts. |
| 3 | SC-3.4a | animal adaptations: methods of gathering and storing food, finding shelter, defending themselves, and rearing young; |
| 3 | SC-3.4b | animal adaptations: hibernation, migration, camouflage, mimicry, instinct, and learned behavior. |
| 3 | SC-3.5b | food chains. Key concepts include herbivore, carnivore, omnivore |
| 3 | SC-3.5c | food chains. Key concepts include predator and prey. |
| 4 | SC-4.5a | plants and animals in an ecosystem Key concepts include behavioral and structural adaptations; |
| K | GEO-K.4 | simple maps and globes to develop an awareness that a map is a drawing of a place to show where things are located and that a globe is a round model of the Earth; |
| K | SC-K.2a | Senses: Key concepts include five senses and corresponding sensing organs (taste _ tongue, touch _ skin, smell _ nose, hearing _ ears, and sight _ eyes); and |
| K | SC-K.2b | Senses: Key concepts include sensory descriptors (sweet, sour, bitter, salty, rough/smooth, hard/soft, cold, warm, hot, loud/soft, high/low, bright/dull). |
| K | SC-K.4d | physical properties Key concepts include relative size and weight (big/little, large/small, heavy/light, wide/thin, long/short); and |
| K | SC-K.8c | simple patterns in daily life. Key concepts include animal and plant growth |
