Ogden Nature Center

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

Kindergarten 

• Observe, describe, draw, and compare familiar animals. 
• Observe and imitate the sounds and movements of animals with songs, dances, and storytelling. 

Fourth Grade 

• Identify common plants and animals that inhabit Utah's forests, wetlands, and deserts. 
• Cite examples of physical features that allow particular plants and animals to live in specific environments (e.g., duck has webbed feet, cactus has waxy coating). 
• Describe some of the interactions between animals and plants of a given environment (e.g., woodpecker eats insects that live on trees of a forest, brine shrimp of the Great Salt Lake eat algae and birds feed on brine shrimp). 
• Observe and record the behavior of birds (e.g. caring for young, obtaining food, surviving winter). 

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).