Format
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Objectives
Grades PK-5
• Investigate how the way an animal moves, lives and eats relates to its environment
• Identify how changes in a food chain can affect the entire ecosystem
• Classify living and nonliving things based on their basic needs
Grades 6-8
• Recognize the characteristics of taxonomic groups
• Describe relationships between animals such as producer/consumer and predator/prey.
• Identify how different environments support different varieties of organisms
Grades 9-12 and Adults
• Investigate and analyze how changes in external factors affect organisms, populations, and communities
• Compare characteristics of taxonomic groups
• Compare and contrast how organisms have adapted to various ecosystems
Standards Alignment
National Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.1.SL.1 -- Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.1.W.8 -- With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.11-12.WHST.7 -- Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.2.W.8 -- Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.3.SL.3 -- Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.3.SL.4 -- Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.3.W.7 -- Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.4.W.7 -- Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.5.W.7 -- Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.6-8.WHST.7 -- Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.8.SL.1 -- Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.9-10.WHST.7 -- Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.K.SL.3 -- Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
CCSS.MATH.1.MP.2 -- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
CCSS.MATH.1.MP.5 -- Use appropriate tools strategically.
CCSS.MATH.2.MP.2 -- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
CCSS.MATH.2.MP.5 -- Use appropriate tools strategically.
CCSS.MATH.3.MP.2 -- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
CCSS.MATH.3.MP.5 -- Use appropriate tools strategically.
CCSS.MATH.4.MP.2 -- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
CCSS.MATH.4.MP.5 -- Use appropriate tools strategically.
CCSS.MATH.5.MP.2 -- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
CCSS.MATH.5.MP.5 -- Use appropriate tools strategically.
CCSS.MATH.6.MP.2 -- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
CCSS.MATH.6.MP.5 -- Use appropriate tools strategically.
CCSS.MATH.7.MP.2 -- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
CCSS.MATH.7.MP.5 -- Use appropriate tools strategically.
CCSS.MATH.8.MP.2 -- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
CCSS.MATH.8.MP.5 -- Use appropriate tools strategically.
CCSS.MATH.HS.MP.2 -- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
CCSS.MATH.HS.MP.5 -- Use appropriate tools strategically.
CCSS.MATH.K.MD.2 -- Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has “more of”/“less of” the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter.
CCSS.MATH.K.MP.2 -- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
CCSS.MATH.K.MP.5 -- Use appropriate tools strategically
Find the National Standards Correlation here: https://www.cilc.org/materials/6689/NGSS-Critters.pdf
State Standards
Find the TEKS here: https://www.cilc.org/materials/6689/TEKS%20_Critters%20Live!.pdf