SD Content Standards Correlation

Goal 3-LIFE SCIENCE
Students will describe structures and attributes of living things, processes of life, and interaction with each other and the environment.

Indicator 2: Analyze various patterns and products of natural and induced biological change.

Grade Level Standards
Third Grade

1. explain how behavioral and physical adaptations allow animals to respond to life needs. (example: finding shelter, defending themselves, hibernation, and camouflage)

1. describe behavioral and structural adaptations plants and animals make to survive in a given environment.

3. understand that special relationships enable some organisms to survive. (example: adaptation. parasitism, mutation)
4. describe how changes in habitat can harm and/or help the survival of organisms.

Goal 3-LIFE SCIENCE
Students will describe structures and attributes of living things, processes of life, and interaction with each other and the environment.

Indicator 2: Analyze various patterns and products of natural and induced biological change.

Grade Level Standards
Eighth Grade

4. recognize the impact of selective breeding, natural selection, genetic defects, and environmental adaptations on the development and survival of species.

Goal 3-LIFE SCIENCE
Students will describe structures and attributes of living things, processes of life, and interaction with each other and the environment.

Indicator 2: Analyze various patterns and products of natural and induced biological change.

7. describe how natural selection leads to adaptations.

Indicator 3: Analyze how organisms are linked to one another and the environment.

4. explain behavior and interdependence of organisms in their natural environment

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