North Carolina Essential Standards – First Grade

• This program helps students understand characteristics of basic environments and behaviors of humans that allow animals to survive by comparing the needs of different species of raptors found in North Carolina and by discussing how humans can protect the environment and improve the conditions for the growth of raptors that live here. (1.L.1)
• This program helps students summarize the needs of living organisms for energy and growth by comparing different species of raptors and discussing their basic survival needs - air, food, water, shelter, and space. (1.L.2)

South Carolina Academic Standard and Performance Indicators – First Grade

• This program enables students to participate in scientific inquiry through exploring, observing, and investigating characteristics of raptors as well as generating and answering questions about these birds. (1.S.1)
• This program will discuss ways natural resources can be conserved by humans to protect raptors. (1.E.4)

North Carolina Essential Standards - Second Grade

• This program helps students understand animal life cycles by discussing the life cycle of birds as well as comparing the lifespan of different sized raptors. (2.L.1)
• This program helps students remember that organisms are both similar and different to their parents based on the characteristics of the organism by discussing the variations in appearance and coloration within some bird species depending on the age and/or sex of the bird. (2.L.2)

South Carolina Academic Standard and Performance Indicators – Second Grade

• This program enables students to participate in scientific inquiry through exploring, observing, and investigating characteristics of raptors as well as generating and answering questions about these birds. (2.S.1)
• This program helps students understand how the physical characteristics of raptors helps them survive and grow in their environments. It also discusses how raptor’s basic survival needs of air, food, water, and shelter are met by their environments. (2.L.5)

South Carolina Academic Standard and Performance Indicators – Third Grade

• This program enables students to participate in scientific inquiry through observing and investigating characteristics of raptors as well as generating and answering questions about these birds. (3.S.1)
• This program helps students understand the role of raptors in their environments as well as how environmental and habitat changes have beneficial and harmful impacts on raptors. (L.5)

North Carolina Essential Standards - Fourth Grade

• This program enables students to understand the beneficial and harmful effects of environmental changes on raptors. It also explains how raptors meet their survival needs through structural and behavioral adaptations that can provide individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing in changing habitats. It further discusses how humans can change their behaviors to live in changing habitats. (4.L.1)

South Carolina Academic Standard and Performance Indicators – Fourth Grade

• This program enables students to participate in scientific inquiry through observing and investigating physical and behavioral adaptations of raptors. (4.S.1)
• This program helps students understand how the structural characteristics of raptors allow them to survive, grow, and reproduce, including discussing raptor behaviors that are instinctual/inherited and behaviors that are learned from interactions with the environment. (L.5)

North Carolina Essential Standards - Fifth Grade

• This program helps students understand the interdependence of plants and animals within their ecosystems by presenting raptors as top predators/consumers and discussing what happens when parts of the food chain are altered. (5.L.2)
• This program helps students remember that organisms are both similar and different to their parents based on the characteristics of the organism by discussing raptor behaviors that are instinctual/inherited and behaviors that are learned. (5.L.3)

South Carolina Academic Standard and Performance Indicators – Fifth Grade

• This program enables students to participate in scientific inquiry through observing and investigating physical and behavioral characteristics of raptors as well as creating hypotheses for the purposes of these adaptations. (5.S.1)
• This program helps students understand the relationships among biotic and abiotic factors within ecosystems by presenting raptors as top predators/consumers and discussing what happens when parts of the food chain are altered. (L.4)

North Carolina Essential Standards - Sixth Grade

• This program helps students understand the flow of energy through an ecosystem by examining how energy is transferred within food chains and food webs that include raptor species. It also summarizes how abiotic and biotic factors affect the ability of raptors to grow and survive. (6.L.2)

South Carolina Academic Standard and Performance Indicators – Sixth Grade

• This program enables students to participate in scientific inquiry through observing raptor adaptations and making hypotheses for the purposes of these adaptations. (6.S.1)
• This program discusses how the structural and behavioral adaptations of raptors allows them to survive and reproduce in changing environments. (6.L.4)

North Carolina Essential Standards - Seventh Grade

• This program discusses the impacts environment and lifestyle choices have on biological inheritance and survival among raptors. (7.L.2)

South Carolina Academic Standard and Performance Indicators – Seventh Grade

• This program enables students to participate in scientific inquiry through observing raptor adaptations and making hypotheses for the purposes of these adaptations. (7.S.1)
• This program discusses how the genetic information transferred from parent to offspring impacts the survival of raptor species. (7.L.4)
• This program helps students understand the responses of organisms to abiotic and biotic components in their environments through discussions about energy transfer within ecosystems with respect to raptors. (EC.5)

North Carolina Essential Standards - Eighth Grade

• This program enables students to explain the environmental implications associated with various methods of obtaining, managing, and using energy resources by talking about energy resources that effect birds, such as the placement of windfarms along migratory routes. (8.P.2)
• This program helps students understand the responses of organisms to abiotic and biotic components in their environments through discussions about energy transfer within ecosystems with respect to raptors. It also examines competition and the predator/prey interaction between raptors and their food. (8.L.3)
• This program helps students understand the evolution of organisms by discussing adaptations and/or other genetic factors that have impacted raptor species and populations. (8.L.4)

South Carolina Academic Standard and Performance Indicators – Eighth Grade

• This program enables students to participate in scientific inquiry through observing raptor adaptations and making hypotheses for the purposes of these adaptations. (8.S.1)

North Carolina Essential Standards - Biology  

• This program enables students to analyze the interdependence of living organisms within their environments by presenting raptors as top predators and discussing what happens when parts of the ecosystem are altered. (Bio.2.1)  
• This program helps students understand the impact of human activities on the environment by examining current environmental and conservation issues negatively impacting raptors due to human involvement. Students will discuss current negative human impacts on the environment and how humans can turn things around through protecting and conserving natural resources. (Bio.2.2)  
• This program helps students understand the theory of evolution by natural selection as a mechanism for how species change over time by discussing adaptations and/or other genetic factors that have positively and negatively impacted raptors. (Bio.3.4)  

North Carolina Essential Standards - Earth/Environmental Science  

• This program helps students analyze patterns of global climate change over time by assessing the impacts of climate change on specific raptor species. (EEn.2.6)  
• This program allows students to evaluate human behaviors in terms of how likely they are to ensure the ability to live sustainably on Earth by discussing human impacts on ecosystems and raptor species. (EEn.2.8)  

South Carolina Academic Standard and Performance Indicators - Biology 

• This program helps students understand biological evolution and the process of natural selection through discussion of adaptations, diversity within species and genetic variability in relation to raptors. (B-5) 
• This program provides students with an understanding of the complexity of ecosystems by examining how changes in biotic and abiotic factors within an ecosystem can impact raptors as well as discussing solutions for reducing the affect of human activity on these ecosystems and animals. (H.B.6)