Program Messages and NGSS Standards:

 

TK-K
Message: "Animals have special patterns or characteristics that help them eat food, survive, and live."
K-LS1-1.  Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

 

1st/2nd
Message: "Different habitats have different animals that play important roles in their ecosystems."
2-LS4-1.  Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.

 

3rd/4th
Message: "The organisms and their habitats make up a system in which the parts depend on each other."
3-LS4-3.  Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

 

5th
Message: "The energy in animals’ food was once energy from the sun."
5-PS3-1.  Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, and motion and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.