Grade Level Expectations and Benchmarks for Science
Grades K2
Strand G: How Living Things Interact with Their Environment
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Standard 1: The student understands the competitive, interdependent,
cyclic nature of living things in the environment.
Benchmark SC.G.1.1.1: The student knows that environments have
living and nonliving parts.
First Grade
1. knows that environments have living and nonliving parts.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ant Homes
Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Penguins and Their Young, Terrarium
Habitats
Benchmark SC.G.1.1.2: The student knows that plants and animals
are dependent upon each other for survival.
Kindergarten
1. understands ways that animals obtain food from plants and other animals.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animal
Defenses, Ant Homes Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere,
Elephants and Their Young, Hide a Butterfly, Ladybugs, Mother Opossum
and Her Babies, Penguins and Their Young, Terrarium Habitats, Tree Homes
First Grade
1. knows that plants produce oxygen and food for animals.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ant Homes
Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Tree Homes
3. understands that living things are part of a food chain.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ant Homes
Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Ladybugs, On Sandy Shores, Terrarium
Habitats
Second Grade
1. understands that there is an interdependency of plants and animals
that can be shown in a food web.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Terrarium Habitats
Benchmark SC.G.1.1.3: The student knows that there are many different
plants and animals living in many different kinds of environments (e.g.,
hot, cold, wet, dry, sunny, and dark).
First Grade
1. knows some characteristics of different environments and some plants
and animals found there.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ant Homes
Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere, Elephants and
Their Young, Hide a Butterfly, Ladybugs, Mother Opossum and Her Babies,
Penguins and Their Young, Terrarium Habitats, Tree Homes
Second Grade
1. understands that living organisms need to be adapted to their environment
to survive.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Buzzing a Hive, On Sandy Shores, Terrarium Habitats, Tree
Homes
Benchmark SC.G.1.1.4: The student knows that animals and plants
can be associated with their environment by an examination of their
structural characteristics.
Second Grade
1. knows that animals and plants can be associated with their environment
by an examination of their structural characteristics (for example,
physical structures are adaptations that allow plants and animals to
survive, such as gills in fish, lungs in mammals).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Buzzing a Hive, On Sandy Shores, Terrarium Habitats, Tree
Homes
Standard 2: The student understands the consequences of using limited
natural resources.
Benchmark SC.G.2.1.1: The student knows that if living things
do not get food, water, shelter, and space, they will die.
Kindergarten
1. knows that if living things do not get food, water, shelter, and
space, they will die.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animal
Defenses, Ant Homes Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere,
Elephants and Their Young, Ladybugs, Mother Opossum and Her Babies,
Penguins and Their Young, Terrarium Habitats, Tree Homes
First Grade
1. understands why living things must have food, water, shelter, and
space to survive.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ant Homes
Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere, Elephants and
Their Young, Ladybugs, Mother Opossum and Her Babies, Penguins and Their
Young, Terrarium Habitats, Tree Homes
Benchmark SC.G.2.1.2: The student knows that the activities of
humans affect plants and animals in many ways.
First Grade
1. understands that there are limited resources available for all living
things to use.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Elephants
and Their Young, Terrarium Habitats
Second Grade
1. knows that human beings cause changes in their environment, and these
changes can be positive (for example, creating refuges, replanting deforested
regions, creating laws to restrict burning) or negative (for example,
introducing exotic organisms, deforestation, littering, contaminating
water and air).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, On Sandy Shores
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