Kindergarten
- Recognize what organisms need
to stay alive (including air, water, food, and shelter). K-2.1
- Identify examples of organisms
and nonliving things. K-2.2
- Compare individual examples
of a particular type of plant or animal to determine that there are
differences among individuals. K-2.4
- Recognize that all organisms
go through stages of growth and change called life cycles. K-2.5
- Summarize ways that the seasons
affect plants and animals. K-4.3
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First Grade
- Recall the basic needs of plants
(including air, water, nutrients, space and light) for energy and
growth. 1-2.1
- Illustrate the major structures
of plants (including stems, roots, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds).
1-2.2
- Summarize the life cycle of plants
(including germination, growth, and production of flowers and seeds).
1-2.4
- Identify characteristics of
plants (including types of stems, roots, leaves, flowers and seeds)
that help them survive in their own distinct environments. 1-2.6
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Second Grade
- Recall the basic needs of animals
(including air, water, food and shelter) for energy, growth and protection.
2-2.1
- Classify animals (including
mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish and insects) according
to their physical characteristics. 2-2.2
- Summarize the interdependence
between animals and plants as sources of food and shelter. 2-2.4
- Illustrate the various life
cycles of animals (including birth and the stages of development).
2-2.5
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Third Grade
- Illustrate the life cycles of
seed plants and various animals and summarize how they grow and are
adapted to conditions within their habitats. 3-2.1
- Detail how physical and behavioral
adaptations allow organisms to survive (including hibernation, defense,
locomotion, movement, food obtainment, and camouflage for animals
and seed dispersal, color, and response to light for plants).
3-2.2
- Recall the characteristics of
an organism’s habitat that allow the organism to survive there.
3-2.3
- Explain how changes in the habitats
of plants and animals affect their survival. 3-2.4
- Summarize the organization of
simple food chains (including the roles of producers, consumers, and
decomposers). 3-2.5
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Fourth Grade
- Classify organisms into major
groups (including plants or animals, flowering or nonflowering plants,
and vertebrates [fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals] or
invertebrates) according to their physical characteristics.
4-2.1
- Explain how the characteristics
of distinct environments (including swamps, rivers and streams, tropical
rain forests, deserts, and the polar regions) influence the variety
of organisms in each. 4-2.2
- Describe how humans and other
animals use their senses and sensory organs to detect signals from
the environment and how their behaviors are influenced by these signals.
4-2.3
- Outline
how an organism’s patterns of behavior are related to its environment
(including the kinds and the number of other organisms present, the
availability of food and other resources, and the physical characteristics
of the environment). 4-2.5
- Examine
how organisms cause changes in their environment. 4-2.6
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