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. |
| 2 | SS-2.3.1.2a. | physical characteristics such as rivers, lakes, mountains, and parks of the community in which they live. |
| 2,3 | 2-3 ES2B | Water can be a liquid or solid and can go back and forth from one form to another. If water is turned into ice and then the ice is allowed to melt, the amount of water will be the same as it was before freezing. Water occurs in the air as rain, snow, hail |
| 2,3 | 2-3 LS2A | Ecosystems support all life on the planet, including human life, by providing food, fresh water, and breathable air. |
| 3 | SS-3.3.1.1 | Understands and applies how maps and globes are used to display the regions of North America in the past and present. |
| 3 | SS-3.3.1.2a. | Explains the physical geography, including landforms and climate, of Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. |
| 4,5 | 4-5 LS1A | Plants and animals can be sorted according to their structures and behaviors. |
| 4,5 | 4-5 LS1B | Plants and animals have different structures and behaviors that serve different functions. |
| 4,5 | 4-5 LS1C | Certain structures and behaviors enable plants and animals to respond to changes in their environment. |
| 4,5 | 4-5 LS1D | Plants and animals have structures and behaviors that respond to internal needs. |
| 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 LS1E | Animals have various ways of obtaining food and water. Nearly all animals drink water or eat foods that contain water. |
| 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. |
| K,1 | K-1 LS3C.1 | Describe several external features and behaviors of animals that can be used to classify them (e.g., size, color, shape of body parts). |
