GEMS Correlations with the Florida Sunshine State Standards
Grade Level Expectations and Benchmarks for Science
Grades K2
Strand F: Processes of Life
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Standard 1: The student describes patterns of structure and function
in living things.
Benchmark SC.F.1.1.1: The student knows the basic needs of all
living things.
Kindergarten
1. knows some of the basic needs of living things (for example, food,
water, space).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animal
Defenses, Ant Homes Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere,
Hide a Butterfly, Investigating Artifacts, Ladybugs, Penguins and Their
Young, Terrarium Habitats, Tree Homes
First Grade
1. understands that living things need food, water, space, and shelter
to survive.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ant Homes
Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere, Hide a Butterfly,
Investigating Artifacts, Ladybugs, Penguins and Their Young, Terrarium
Habitats, Tree Homes
Second Grade
1. understands that the amount of food, water, space, and shelter needed
is dependent on the size and kind of living things.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Buzzing a Hive, On Sandy Shores, Terrarium Habitats, Tree
Homes
Benchmark SC.F.1.1.2: The student knows how to apply knowledge
about life processes to distinguish between living and nonliving things.
First Grade
1. knows how to classify things as living and nonliving.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Investigating
Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats
Second Grade
1. understands that living things can reproduce, and nonliving things
cannot reproduce.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Buzzing a Hive, Terrarium Habitats
Benchmark SC.F.1.1.3: The student describes how organisms change
as they grow and mature.
Kindergarten
1. knows ways living things change and grow over time (for example,
seed to flowering plant, tadpole to frog).
Animal Defenses, Ant Homes Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs
Everywhere, Ladybugs, Penguins and Their Young, Terrarium Habitats,
Tree Homes
First Grade
1. knows ways organisms change as they grow and mature (for example,
as people grow up their size changes).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ant Homes
Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere, Ladybugs, Penguins
and Their Young, Terrarium Habitats, Tree Homes
2. knows that living things grow and change in different ways and in
different lengths of time (for example, butterfly, frog, daisy, pine
tree).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ant Homes
Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere, Ladybugs, Penguins
and Their Young, Terrarium Habitats, Tree Homes
Second Grade
1. knows some factors that influence the growth of living things (for
example, amount of water, amount of light, amount and type of food,
type of soil).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Buzzing a Hive, Terrarium Habitats
Benchmark SC.F.1.1.4: The student understands that structures
of living things are adapted to their function in specific environments.
Kindergarten
1. knows that plants and animals are found in different kinds of environments
and are often hidden.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animal
Defenses, Ant Homes Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere,
Hide a Butterfly, Ladybugs, Penguins and Their Young, Terrarium Habitats,
Tree Homes
First Grade
1. knows that plants and animals have adaptations that help them survive
in their environment (camouflage, teeth, spines).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ant Homes
Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere, Hide a Butterfly,
Ladybugs, Penguins and Their Young, Terrarium Habitats, Tree Homes
Second Grade
1. understands that structures of living things are adapted to their
function in specific environments.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Buzzing a Hive, On Sandy Shores, Terrarium Habitats, Tree
Homes
Benchmark SC.F.1.1.5: The student compares and describes the structural
characteristics of plants and animals.
Kindergarten
1. knows selected characteristics of plants and animals (for example,
shape, size, color).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animal
Defenses, Ant Homes Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere,
Hide a Butterfly, Investigating Artifacts, Ladybugs, Penguins and Their
Young, Terrarium Habitats, Tree Homes
First Grade
1. understands different ways in which living things can be grouped
(for example, plant/animals, edible plants/non-edible plants).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Investigating
Artifacts
Second Grade
1. knows some characteristics of the vertebrate groups (mammals, reptiles,
birds, amphibians, fish).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Eggs Eggs Everywhere, On Sandy Shores, Tree Homes
2. knows the main parts of plants (stems, leaves, roots, flowers).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Buzzing
a Hive, Tree Homes
3. knows that the structural characteristics of plants and animals are
used to group them.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Eggs
Eggs Everywhere, On Sandy Shores
Standard 2: The student understands the process and importance of genetic
diversity.
Benchmark SC.F.2.1.1: The student knows that living things have
offspring that resemble their parents.
Kindergarten
1. knows names for animal offspring (for example, puppies, kittens,
cubs, calves, chicks, children).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ant Homes
Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere, Ladybugs, Penguins
and Their Young, Terrarium Habitats, Tree Homes
First Grade
1. knows that plants and animals are similar but not identical to their
parents.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ant Homes
Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere, Terrarium Habitats,
Tree Homes
Second Grade
1. understands that plants and animals produce offspring with similar
characteristics, but individual differences (for example, kittens in
a litter may be colored differently).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats
Benchmark SC.F.2.1.2: The student knows that there are many different
kinds of living things that live in a variety of environments.
Kindergarten
1. knows that plants and animals may live in different habitats.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animal
Defenses, Ant Homes Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere,
Hide a Butterfly, Ladybugs, Penguins and Their Young, Terrarium Habitats,
Tree Homes
First Grade
1. knows plants and animals that live in a particular habitat (for example,
black bears in the forest, whales in the ocean, camels in the desert,
ducks in the wetlands).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ant Homes
Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere, Hide a Butterfly,
Ladybugs, Penguins and Their Young, Tree Homes
2. knows the characteristics of the climate in different habitats (for
example, sunlight, moisture, temperature).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ant Homes
Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Penguins and Their Young, Tree Homes
3. knows some ways in which animals and plants are adapted to living
in different environments.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ant Homes
Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Hide a Butterfly, Ladybugs, Penguins
and Their Young, Terrarium Habitats, Tree Homes
Second Grade
1. knows that plants and animals are adapted to different ranges of
temperature and moisture.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, On Sandy Shores, Terrarium Habitats, Tree Homes
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