Hillcrest Elementary's Secret Garden 
     
State Standards Being Met
     
  Kindergarten Standards   First Grade Standards  
 

 Students are able to use scientific thinking skills of observing and communicating.
Students are able to explore the local habitat.
Students are able to discuss the basic needs of plants and animals.
Students are able to
  recognize similarities and differences between animal offspring and their parents.

  1.L.1.1.  Students are able to discover life needs of green plants.
1.L.1.2.  Students are able to identify the parts of a plant.
1.L.1.3.  Students are able to list life needs of people and other animals.
1.L.2.1.  Students are able to describe physical similarities and differences between parents and offspring.
1.L.3.1.  Students are able to relate characteristics of plants and animals that allow them to live in specific habitats.

 

 
         
  Second Grade Standards   Third Grade Standards  
  2.L.1.1.  Students are able to classify plants according to similarities and differences.
2.L.1.2.  Students are able to classify people and animals according to similarities and differences.

2.L.2.1.  Students are able to describe how flowering plants go through a series of orderly changes in their life cycle.

2.L.2.2.  Students are able to compare life cycles of various living things.
2.L.3.1.  Students are able to describe ways that plants and animals depend on each other.
2.L.3.2.  Students are able to associate adaptations in plants and animals in response to seasonal changes.

  3.L.1.1.  Students are able to identify the basic structures, functions, and needs of plants in relation to their environment.
3.L.1.2. Students are able to identify characteristic features of animals and their related functions in relation to their environment.
3.L.1.3. Students are able to describe life cycles, including growth and metamorphosis, of familiar organisms.
3.L.2.1.  Students are able to explain how animals instinctively meet basic needs in their environment.
3.L.3.1.  Students are able to describe how species depend on one another and on the environment for survival.
3.L.3.2.  Students are able to explain how environments support a diversity of plants and animals.
3.M.1.5. Students are able to measure length to the nearest 1/2 inch.

 
         
           
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