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Ohio Academic Content Standards: 3-5

Grade Three
Science:
• Relate animal structures to their specific survival functions (e.g.obtaining food, escaping or hiding from enemies).
• Classify animals according to their characteristics (e.g., body coverings and body structure).
• Describe how changes in an organism’s habitat are sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful.
• Discuss observations and measurements made by other people.

Mathematics:
• Identify and select appropriate units for measuring:
a. length – miles, kilometers and other units of measure as appropriate;
b. volume (capacity) – gallons;
c. weight – ounces, pounds, grams, or kilograms

Social Studies:
• Identify possible cause and effect relationships.

Grade Four
Science:
• Describe how organisms interact with one another in various ways (e.g., many plants depend on animals for carrying pollen or dispersing seeds).

Mathematics:
•Make simple unit conversions within a measurement system; e.g.,inches to feet, kilograms to grams, quarts to gallons.

Social Studies:
• Distinguish between fact and opinion.

Grade Five
Science:

• Trace the organization of simple food chains and food webs (e.g., producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and decomposers).
• 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.

Social Studies:
• Obtain information from a variety of print and electronic sources and analyze its reliability including:
a. Accuracy of facts;
b. Credentials of the source.

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