4th Grade Educational Standards:
- 0407.3.2- Classify organisms as carnivores, herbivores, or omnivores.
- GLE 0407.5.1- Analyze physical and behavioral adaptations that enable organisms to survive in their environment.
- 0407.5.1- Classify animals according to their physical adaptations for obtaining food, oxygen, and surviving within a particular environment.
- 0407.5.2- Describe how animal behaviors such as migration, defense, means of locomotion, and hibernation enable them to survive in an environment.
- SPI 0407.5.1- Determine how a physical or behavioral adaptation can enhance the chances of survival.
5th Grade Educational Standards:
- GLE 0507.5.1- Investigate physical characteristics associated with different groups of animals.
- 0507.5.1- Classify animals according to their physical characteristics.
- SPI 0507.5.1- Identify physical and behavioral adaptations that enable animals such as amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish, and other mammals to survive in a particular environment.
- GLE 0507.4.2- Recognize that some characteristics are inherited while others result from interactions with the environment.
- SPI 0507.4.2- Distinguish between inherited traits and those that can be attributed to the environment.
6th Grade Educational Standards: None
7th Grade Educational Standards: None
8th Grade Educational Standards:
- GLE 0807.5.1- Identify various criteria used to classify organisms into groups.
- 0807.5.1- Select characteristics of plants and animals that serve as the basis for developing.
- SPI 0807.5.1- Use a simple classification key to indentify an unknown organism.
- GLE 0807.5.3- Analyze how structural, behavioral, physiological adaptations within a population enable it to survive in a given environment.
- 0807.5.3- Compare and contrast the ability of an organism to survive under different environmental conditions.
- SPI 0807.5.2- Analyze structural, behavioral, and physiological adaptations to predict which populations are likely to survive in a particular environment.
- GLE 0807.5.4- Explain why variation within a population can enhance the chances for the groups survival.
