Grade Level Expectations
1.2.6: Understand that organisms can be a single cell or many cells that form parts with different functions.
1.2.6.c: Describe the life function of a part of a living thing (e.g., wings of a bird).
1.2.7: Understand the life cycles of plants and animals and the differences between inherited and acquired characteristics.
1.2.7.a: Observe and describe the life cycle of a plant or animal.
1.2.7.b: Describe that the young of plants and animals grow to resemble their parents as they mature into adults.
1.2.7.c: Describe inherited characteristics (e.g., leaf shape, eye color) and learned characteristics (e.g., languages, social customs).
1.3.6: Understand weather indicators and understand how water cycles through the atmosphere.
1.3.6.a: Observe, measure, and describe weather indicators (i.e., temperature, wind direction and speed, precipitation), noting changes and patterns of change from day to day and over the year.
1.3.10: Understand that that an organism's ability to survive is influenced by the organism's behavior and the ecosystem in which it lives.
1.3.10.b: Describe the role of an organism in a food chain of an ecosystem (i.e., predator, prey, consumer, producer, decomposer, scavenger).
Forest Ecosystem
Prairie Ecosystem
Correlation last revised: 1/20/2017