Ogden Nature Center

Standards listed are not covered exhaustively, but in varying degrees.

Kindergarten

• Observe and describe typical weather for each of the seasons.
• Describe the information each of the five senses provides with the changing of seasons.
• Observe and describe changes in behavior of animals as the seasons change.
• Describe how people change their behavior as the seasons change.

Second Grade 

• Describe how weather affects people and animals.

Third Grade 

• Predict the effects of changes in the environment (e.g., temperature, light, moisture) on a living organism.

Fourth Grade 

• Observe and record the behavior of birds (e.g., caring for young, obtaining food, surviving winter).
• Describe how the behavior and adaptations of Utah mammals help them survive winter (e.g., obtaining food, building homes, hibernation, migration).

Fifth Grade 

• Compare the traits of similar species for physical abilities, instinctual behaviors, and specialized body structures that increase the survival of one species in a specific environment over another species (e.g., difference between the feet of snowshoe hare and cottontail rabbit, differences in leaves of plants growing at different altitudes, differences between the feathers of an owl and a hummingbird, differences in parental behavior among various fish).