This resource has 33 correlations with the National Standards.  
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• Physical Science
  • Properties of objects and materials
    • Objects have many observable properties, including the ability to react with other substances. (K-4)

• Life Science
  • The characteristics of organisms
    • Organisms have basic needs. For example, animals need air, water, and food; plants require air, water, nutrients, and light. (K-4)
    • Organisms can survive only in environments in which their needs can be met. (K-4)
    • Each plant or animal has different structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction. For example, humans have distinct body structures for walking, holding, seeing, and talking. (K-4)
    • Humans and other organisms have senses that help them detect internal and external cues. (K-4)
    • The behavior of individual organisms is influenced by internal cues (such as hunger) and by external cues (such as a change in the environment). (K-4)
    • Organisms can survive only in environments in which their needs can be met. (K-4)
  • Life cycles of organisms
    • Plants and animals have life cycles that include being born, developing into adults, reproducing, and eventually dying. The details of this life cycle are different for different organisms. (K-4)
    • Plants and animals closely resemble their parents. (K-4)
    • Many characteristics of an organism are inherited from the parents of the organism, but other characteristics result from an individual's interactions with the environment. Inherited characteristics include the color of flowers and the number of limbs of an animal. (K-4)
  • Organisms and environments
    • An organism's patterns of behavior are related to the nature of that organism's environment, including the kinds and numbers of other organisms present, the availability of food and resources, and the physical characteristics of the environment.

• Earth Science
  • Changes in earth and sky
    • The surface of the earth changes.

• Science as Inquiry
  • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
    • Ask a question about objects, organisms, and events in the environment. (K-4)
    • Plan and conduct a simple investigation. (K-4)
    • Employ simple equipment and tools to gather data and extend the senses. (K-4)
    • Use data to construct a reasonable explanation.
  • Understandings about scientific inquiry
    • Scientific investigations involve asking and answering a question and comparing the answer with what scientists already know about the world. (K-4)
    • Types of investigations include describing objects, events, and organisms; classifying them; and doing a fair test (experimenting).

• Science and Technology
  • Abilities of technological design
    • Identify a simple problem.
    • Propose a solution.
  • Understanding about science and technology
    • People have always had questions about their world. Science is one way of answering questions and explaining the natural world.
    • People have always had problems and invented tools and techniques (ways of doing something) to solve problems.
    • Trying to determine the effects of solutions helps people avoid some new problems.
  • Distinguish between natural and human made objects
    • Some objects occur in nature; others have been designed and made by people to solve human problems and enhance the quality of life.
    • Objects can be categorized into two groups, natural and designed.

• Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
  • Characteristics and changes in populations
    • Populations will increase unless other factors such as disease or famine decrease the population.
  • Changes in environments
    • Environments are the space, conditions, and factors that affect an individual's and a population's ability to survive and their quality of life.
    • Changes in environments can be natural or influenced by humans. Some changes are good, some are bad, and some are neither good nor bad.
  • Science and technology in local challenges
    • People continue inventing new ways of doing things, solving problems, and getting work done.
    • New ideas and inventions often affect other people; sometimes the effects are good and sometimes they are bad.
    • It is helpful to try to determine in advance how ideas and inventions will affect other people.

• History and Nature of Science
  • Science as a human endeavor
    • Science and technology have been practiced by people for a long time.

• Teaching Standards
  • Teachers of science guide and facilitate learning. In doing this, teachers
    • Encourage and model the skills of scientific inquiry, as well as the curiosity, openness to new ideas and data, and skepticism that characterize science.