GEMS Correlations with the Florida Sunshine State Standards
Grade Level Expectations and Benchmarks for Science
Grades K2
Strand D: Processes that Shape the Earth
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Standard 1: The student recognizes that processes in the lithosphere,
atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere interact to shape the Earth.
Benchmark SC.D.1.1.1: The student recognizes that the solid materials
making up the Earth come in all sizes, from boulders to grains of sand.
Kindergarten
1. knows that the surface of the Earth is composed of different types
of solid materials (for example, sand, pebbles, rocks, clumps of dirt).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Investigating
Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats
First Grade
1. extends and refines knowledge that the surface of the Earth is composed
of different types of solid materials.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Investigating
Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats
Second Grade
1. extends and refines knowledge that the surface of the Earth is composed
of different types of solid materials that come in all sizes.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Investigating
Artifacts, On Sandy Shores, Terrarium Habitats
Benchmark SC.D.1.1.2: The student knows that life occurs on or
near the surface of the Earth in land, air, and water.
Kindergarten
1. knows that life occurs on or near the surface of the Earth in land,
water, and air.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animal
Defenses, Ant Homes Under the Ground, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere,
Elephants and Their Young, Hide a Butterfly, Investigating Artifacts,
Ladybugs, Mother Opossum and Her Babies, Penguins and Their Young, Terrarium
Habitats, Tree Homes
First Grade
1. knows some kinds of organisms that live on or near the surface of
the Earth in land, water, and air.
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. compares the characteristics of things that live on land, in the
water, and in the air.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ant Homes
Under the Ground, Aquatic Habitats, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere,
On Sandy Shores, Terrarium Habitats, Tree Homes
2. knows that some organisms have adaptations that enable them to move
from one medium to another (for example, dragonflies begin life in water,
move to land, and then fly in the air).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats, Buzzing a Hive, Eggs Eggs Everywhere, On Sandy Shores, Terrarium
Habitats, Tree Homes
Benchmark SC.D.1.1.3: The student recognizes patterns in weather.
Second Grade
1. knows that weather conditions occur in patterns over time.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: On Sandy
Shores
Standard 2: The student understands the need for protection of the natural
systems on Earth.
Benchmark SC.D.2.1.1: The student understands that people influence
the quality of life of those around them.
Kindergarten
1. knows ways to care for the Earth at home and in school (for example,
limiting use of paper towels, turning off water while brushing teeth,
turning off lights when no one will be in the room).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ladybugs,
Sifting Through Science
First Grade
1. extends and refines knowledge of ways to care for the Earth at home
and in school.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ladybugs,
Sifting Through Science
Second Grade
1. knows ways that human activity affects the environment (for example,
land fills for disposal of wastes, land development for homes and industry,
dams to control rivers or generate electricity).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: On Sandy
Shores, Sifting Through Science
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