Kindergarten through Grade Six
Opossums, snakes, and turtles, Oh My! Explore the many animal treasures that may be lurking in your own backyard.
Standards Addressed by this Topic:
Life Sciences
Benchmark A (K-2)
Discover that there are living things, non-living things and pretend things, and describe the basic needs of living things (organisms).
Grade One Indictor
1. Explore that organisms, including people, have basic needs which include air, water, food, living space and shelter.
Grade Two Indicator
1. Explain that animals, including people, need air, water, food, living space and shelter; plants need air, water, nutrients.
Benchmark B (K-2)
Explain how organisms function and interact with their physical environment.
Kindergarten Indicator
6. Investigate the habitats of many different kinds of local plants and animals and some of the ways in which animals depend on plants and each other in our community.
Grade Two Indicators
7. Compare the habitats of many different kinds of Ohio plants and animals and some of the ways animals depend on plants and each other.
8. Compare the activities of Ohio's common animals during the different seasons by describing changes in their behaviors and body covering.
Benchmark B (3-5)
Analyze plant and animal structures and functions needed for survival and describe the flow of energy through a system that all organisms use to survive.
Grade Three Indicator
2. Relate animal structures to their specific survival functions.
Benchmark C (3-5)
Compare changes in an organism's ecosystem/habitat that affect its survival.
Grade Five Indicator
4. Summarize that organisms can survive only in ecosystems in which their needs can be met The world has different ecosystems and distinct ecosystems support the lives of different types of organisms.
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