Alignment to Standards for WA
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3.1.1 | Understands and uses maps and globes to identify major bodies of water and continental land masses. |
| 1 | SS-1.3.1.1 | Understands and uses maps and globes to identify major bodies of water and continental land masses. |
| 1 | SS-1.3.1.1a. | Uses a map or globe to identify the location of the continents and major bodies of water. |
| 1 | SS-1.3.1.1b. | Explains how maps and globes can be used to locate the continents where families live. |
| 2 | SS-2.3.1 | Understands the physical characteristics, cultural characteristics, and location of places, regions, and spatial patterns on the Earthês surface |
| 2 | SS-2.3.1.1 | basic mapping elements such as symbols, compass rose, labels, and a key to read and construct maps that display information about neighborhoods or local communities. |
| 4,5 | 4-5 LS1B | Plants and animals have different structures and behaviors that serve different functions. |
| 4,5 | 4-5 LS2A | An ecosystem includes all of the populations of living organisms and nonliving physical factors in a given area. Living organisms depend on one another and the nonliving physical factors in their ecosystem to help them survive. |
| 4,5 | 4-5 LS3B | Plants and animals inherit many characteristics from their parents. Some inherited characteristics allow organisms to better survive and reproduce in a given ecosystem. |
| 4,5 | 4-5 LS3C | Some characteristics and behaviors result from an individual plantês or animalês interactions with the environment and are not passed from one generation to the next by heredity. |
| K,1 | K-1 LS1B | All plants and animals have various external parts. |
| K,1 | K-1 LS1D | Different animals use their body parts in different ways to see, hear, grasp objects, and move from place to place. |
| K,1 | K-1 LS2A | There are different kinds of natural areas, or habitats, where many different plants and animals live together. |
| K,1 | K-1 LS2B | A habitat supports the growth of many different plants and animals by meeting their basic needs of food, water, and shelter. |
| K,1 | K-1 LS3B | There are many different types of living things on Earth. Many of them are classified as plants or animals. |
