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Ohio Academic Content Standards: K-2 & 3-5

Kindergarten
Science:
• Discover that stories (e.g., cartoons, movies, comics) sometimes give plants and animals characteristics they really do not have (e.g., talking flowers).
• Interact with living things and the environment in ways that promote respect.

Social Studies:
• Listen to and discuss songs, poetry, literature and drama that reflect the cultural heritages of the people of the United States.
•Distinguish between land and water on maps and globes.

Language Arts:
• Distinguish between fantasy and reality.

Grade One
Science:
• Explore that humans and other animals have body parts that help to seek, find and take in food when they are hungry (e.g., sharp teeth, flat teeth, good nose and sharp vision).
• Investigate that animals eat plants and / or other animals for shelter and nesting.
• Investigate a variety of ways to make things move and what causes them to change speed, direction and / or stop.

Social Studies:
• Identify cultural practices of a culture on each continent through the study of the folktales, music and art created by people living in that culture.

Language Arts:
• Provide own interpretation of story, using information from the text.

Grade Two
Science:
• Investigate the different structures of plants and animals that help them live in different environments (e.g., lungs, gills, leaves and roots).
• Explore and describe sounds (e.g., high, low, soft and loud) produced by vibrating objects.
• Identify and use symbols to locate places of significance on maps and globes.

Social Studies:
• Describe ways in which language, stories, folktales, music and artistic creations serve as expressions of culture and influence the behavior of people living in a particular culture.
• Explain how contributions of different cultures within the United States have influenced our common national heritage.
• Read and interpret a variety of maps.

Language Arts:
• List questions about essential elements from informational text (e.g., why,who, where, what, when and how) and identify answers.
• Distinguish between stories, poems, plays, fairy tales and fables.

Grade Three
Science:
• Relate animal structures to their specific survival functions (e.g.obtaining food, escaping or hiding from enemies).
• Observe and explore how fossils provide evidence about animals that lived long ago and the nature of the environment at that time.
• Communicate scientific findings to others through a variety of methods (e.g., pictures, written, oral and recorded observations).

Language Arts:
• Compare and contrast information between texts and across subject areas.
• Recognize and describe similarities and differences of plot across literary works..

Grade Four
Science:
• Differentiate fact from opinion and explain that scientists do not rely on claims or conclusions unless they are backed by observations that can be confirmed.

Language Arts:
• Compare and contrast information on a single topic or theme across different text and non-text resources.
• Identify and explain the defining characteristics of literary forms and genres, including poetry, drama, fables, fantasies, chapter books, fiction and non-fiction.

Grade Five
Science:
• Summarize that organisms can survive only in ecosystems in which their needs can be met (e.g., food, water, shelter, air, carrying capacity and waste disposal). The world has different ecosystems and distinct ecosystems support the lives of different types of organisms.
• Support how an organism’s patterns of behavior are related to the nature of that organism’s ecosystem, including the kinds and numbers of other organisms present, the availability of food and
resources, and the changing physical characteristics of the ecosystem.
• Analyze how all organisms, including humans, cause changes in their ecosystems and how these changes can be beneficial, neutral or detrimental (e.g., beaver ponds, earthworm burrows,
grasshoppers eating plants, people planting and cutting trees and people introducing a new species).
• Investigate positive and negative impacts of human activity and technology on the environment.
• Explain how the solution to one problem may create other problems.
• Summarize how conclusions and ideas change as new knowledge is gained.

Language Arts:
• Make critical comparisons across texts.

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