Primary Connections:

National Science Education Standards (1996)
(National)

• Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
• Science as Inquiry > Understanding about scientific inquiry (Grade: K – 4)
• Life Science > Organisms and environments (Grade: K – 4)

MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)

• Life Science (Biology) > Living Things and Their Environment (Grade: 6 – 8)
• Life Science (Biology) > Characteristics of Plants and Animals (Grade: 3 – 5)

Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework (2003)
(Massachusetts)

• Geography > South America (Grade: 6)
• History, Geography, and Economics > Pre-Columbian Civilizations of the New World and European Exploration, Colonization, and Settlement to 1701 (Grade: 5)
• Geography > From Many, One (Grade: 2)

Secondary Connections:

Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework (2003)
(Massachusetts)

• History, Geography, and Economics > Pre-Columbian Civilizations of the New World and European Exploration, Colonization, and Settlement to 1701 (Grade: 5)

Primary Connections:

National Science Education Standards (1996)
(National)

• Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
  An organism's behavior evolves through adaptation to its environment. How a species moves, obtains food, reproduces, and responds to danger are based in the species' evolutionary history.
• Science as Inquiry > Understanding about scientific inquiry (Grade: K – 4)
  Scientists use different kinds of investigations depending on the questions they are trying to answer. Types of investigations include describing objects, events, and organisms; classifying them; and doing a fair test (experimenting).
• Life Science > Organisms and environments (Grade: K – 4)
  All animals depend on plants. Some animals eat plants for food. Other animals eat animals that eat the plants.

MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)

• Life Science (Biology) > 13 Living Things and Their Environment (Grade: 6 – 8)
  Give examples of ways in which organisms interact and have different functions within an ecosystem that enable the ecosystem to survive.
• Life Science (Biology) > 01 Characteristics of Plants and Animals (Grade: 3 – 5)
  Classify plants and animals according to the physical characteristics that they share.

Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework (2003)
(Massachusetts)

• Geography > SAM.1 South America (Grade: 6)
  On a map of the world, locate South America and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. On a map of South America, locate the Amazon, the Andes Mountains, Cape Horn, and the southern, northern, eastern, and western regions of South America.
• History, Geography, and Economics > 5.2 Pre-Columbian Civilizations of the New World and European Exploration, Colonization, and Settlement to 1701 (Grade: 5)
  Identify the three major pre-Columbian civilizations that existed in Central and South America (Maya, Aztec, and Inca) and their locations. Describe their political structures, religious practices, and use of slaves.
• Geography > 2.4 From Many, One (Grade: 2)
  Locate five major rivers in the world: the Mississippi, Amazon, Volga, Yangtze, and Nile.

Secondary Connections:

Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework (2003)
(Massachusetts)

• History, Geography, and Economics > 5.2 Pre-Columbian Civilizations of the New World and European Exploration, Colonization, and Settlement to 1701 (Grade: 5)
  Identify the three major pre-Columbian civilizations that existed in Central and South America (Maya, Aztec, and Inca) and their locations. Describe their political structures, religious practices, and use of slaves.