Standards Detail
Search using a saved search preference or by selecting one or more content areas and grade levels to view standards, related Eligible Content, assessments, and materials and resources.
Limit your search to no more than three grades, subjects, or courses, and ensure that you have selected at least one grade and subject or one course.
Subject Area - 3:
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
- Standard Area - 3.1: Biological Sciences
- Organizing Category - 3.1.C: Evolution
- Grade Level - 3.1.3.C: GRADE 3
Standard - 3.1.3.C1
Recognize that plants survive through adaptations, such as stem growth towards light and root growth downward in response to gravity.
Recognize that many plants and animals can survive harsh environments because of seasonal behaviors (e.g. hibernation, migration, trees shedding leaves).
-
Assessment Anchor - S3.B.1 Structure and Function of Organisms
-
Anchor Descriptor - S3.B.1.1 Identify and describe the similarities and differences of living things and their life processes.
-
Eligible Content - S3.B.1.1.1 Identify and describe the functions of basic structures of animals and plants (e.g., animals [skeleton, heart, lungs]; plants [roots, stem, leaves]).
-
Eligible Content - S3.B.1.1.2 Classify living things based on their similarities and differences.
-
Eligible Content - S3.B.1.1.3 Describe the basic needs of plants and animals and their dependence on light, food, air, water, and shelter.
-
Eligible Content - S3.B.1.1.4 Describe how plants and animals go through life cycles.
-
-
-
Assessment Anchor - S3.B.2 Continuity of Life
-
Anchor Descriptor - S3.B.2.1 Identify and describe characteristics of plants and animals that help with their survival.
-
Eligible Content - S3.B.2.1.1 Identify adaptations of plants and animals that have helped them to survive.
-
Eligible Content - S3.B.2.1.2 Identify and describe plant and animal characteristics that are necessary for survival.
-
Eligible Content - S3.B.2.1.3 Identify characteristics for plant and animal survival in different environments (e.g., desert, forest, ocean).
-
-
Anchor Descriptor - S3.B.2.2 Identify characteristics that are inherited.
-
Eligible Content - S3.B.2.2.1 Identify physical characteristics (e.g., height, hair color, eye color) that could be passed on to offspring.
-
Eligible Content - S3.B.2.2.2 Identify similar physical characteristics in parents and their offspring.
-
-
-
Assessment Anchor - S3.B.3 Ecological Behavior and Systems
-
Anchor Descriptor - S3.B.3.1 Identify and describe living and nonliving things in an ecosystem and their interaction.
-
Eligible Content - S3.B.3.1.1 Identify the living and nonliving components of an ecosystem (e.g., living [plants, animals]; nonliving [water, soil, air]).
-
Eligible Content - S3.B.3.1.2 Describe the interactions between living and nonliving components of an ecosystem (e.g., plants [water, sunlight]; animals [air, shelter]).
-
-
Anchor Descriptor - S3.B.3.2 Describe changes in natural or human-made systems and the possible effects of those changes on the environment.
-
Eligible Content - S3.B.3.2.1 Describe what happens to an animal when its habitat is changed.
-
Eligible Content - S3.B.3.2.2 Describe how changes in the environment (e.g., fire, flood) can affect an ecosystem.
-
Eligible Content - S3.B.3.2.3 Describe how human interactions with the environment impact an ecosystem (e.g., road construction, pollution, urban development, dam building).
-
-
