Correlations are available for the following programs:
Owl Pellets
Standard-Life Sciences
Organizer- Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.2, Benchmark B 3.3
Standard-Scientific Inquiry
Organizer-Doing Scientific Inquiry
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.2, Benchmark B 3.3,
Benchmark C 3.6
Standard-Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer-Nature of Science
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.1
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Amimal Tracks and Wildlife
Students view a variety of animal skins and discuss animal characteristics. They learn about how pollution and litter can affect the animals within an ecosystem. Students get to take home an animal track made from plaster of paris.
Standard-Scientific Inquiry
Organizer-Doing Scientific Inquiry
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 3.6
Standard-Life Sciences
Organizer-Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.2, Benchmark B 3.3,
Benchmark C 5.4, Benchmark C 5.5, Benchmark C 5.6
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Oh Deer!
Standard-Life Sciences
Organizer-Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 3.6, Benchmark C 5.4,
Benchmark C 5.5, Benchmark C 5.6
Standard-Scientific Inquiry
Organizer-Doing Scientific Inquiry
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.3
Standard-Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer-Nature of Science
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 5.2
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Soil and Erosion
Students learn the characteristics of soil such as color and texture. They investigate how soil is created and how long it takes.
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer-Processes that Shape the Earth
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 4.8, Benchmark B 4.9,
Benchmark B 4.10, Benchmark B 4.10
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer-Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 5.6
Standard-Science and Technology
Organizer-Understanding Technology
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 3.2, Benchmark A 5.1
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Ohio Rocks and Minerals
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer-Processes that Shape the Earth
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 4.8, Benchmark B 4.10
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer-Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 3.1, Benchmark C 3.2,
Benchmark C 3.3, Benchmark C 3.4, Benchmark C 3.5, Benchmark C 3.6,
Benchmark C 5.6
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Ohio Fossils
Standard-Life Sciences
Organizer-Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 3.4, Benchmark C 3.5,
Benchmark C 3.6, Benchmark C 4.4, Benchmark C 5.4, Benchmark C 5.5,
Benchmark C 5.6
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer-Processes that Shape the Earth
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 4.8
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer-Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 3.2, Benchmark C 3.4
Standard-Scientific Inquiry
Organizer-Doing Scientific Inquiry
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.2, Benchmark B 4.2,
Benchmark B 5.3, Benchmark C 4.6
Standard-Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer-Nature of Science
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 4.1, Benchmark A 5.1,
Benchmark B 4.1, Benchmark B 5.3, Benchmark B 5.4
Standard-Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer-Ethical Practices
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 4.4
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Web of Life / Links in the Chain
By playing a game, students learn how pollution enters the aquatic ecosystem. They learn how non-point source pollution affects the organisms in the food chain of that ecosystem, what a food chain is,and how biological magnification affects those organisms.
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer-Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 5.6
Standard-Life Sciences
Organizer-Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 5.1, Benchmark B 5.2,
Benchmark B 5.3, Benchmark C 3.6, Benchmark C 5.4, Benchmark C 5.5,
Benchmark C 5.6
Standard-Science and Technology
Organizer-Understanding Technology
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 3.2, Benchmark A 5.1
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Finding the Connection
Students construct a poster and connect the insects and animals in a given food chain and ecosystem while they describe the interdependence between them.
Standard-Life Sciences
Organzier-Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.2, Benchmark B 5.1,
Benchmark B 5.3, Benchmark C 5.4, Benchmark C 5.5, Benchmark C 5.6
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Making Paper
This program teaches students that we can recycle old newspapers into new products such as decorative magnets, pins, Christmas ornaments and more. Students learn the advantages of recycling and paint their own ornaments to keep.
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer-Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 5.6
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Pollution on the Move
Standard-Life Sciences
Organizer-Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 5.6
Standard-Science and Technology
Organzier-Understanding Technology
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 3.2, Benchmark A 5.1
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Plant Address
Created for 4th grade. By listening to plant adaptation clues in a riddle, teams of students try to identify the plants and their habitats. The clues and riddles describe many water related adaptations by plants.
Standard-Life Sciences
Organizer-Heredity
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 4.1, Benchmark A 4.5
Standard-Life Sciences
Organzier-Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 4.2, Benchmark A 4.3
Water Address
By listening to animal adaptation clues in a riddle, teams of students identify the animals and their habitats. The clues and riddles describe water related adaptations by animals.
Standard-Life Sciences
Organizer-Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.2, Benchmark B 3.3,
Benchmark C 5.5
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Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly
Standard-Life Sciences
Organzier-Heredity
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 3.1
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Life Cycle of the Milkweed Plant
Standard-Life Sciences
Organzier-Heredity
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 4.1, Benchmark A 4.5
Standard-Life Sciences
Organzier-Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 4.3
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Recycling Presentation
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer-Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 5.6
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Habitat Lap Sit
Standard-Life Sciences
Organizer-Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 3.6, Benchmark C 5.4,
Benchmark C 5.5
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer-Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 5.6
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer-Heredity
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 4.5
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Humpty Dumpty
Students relate the challenge of environmental restoration projects to assembling a puzzle that they create. They learn about the challenges of restoring an altered natural environment.
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organzier-Processes that Shape the Earth
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 4.9, Benchmark B 4.10
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organzier-Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 5.6
Standard-Life Sciences
Organzier-Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 3.6, Benchmark C 5.4,
Benchmark C 5.5, Benchmark C 5.6
Standard-Life Sciences
Organzier-Heredity
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 4.5
Standard-Science and Technology
Organzier-Abilities to do Technical Design
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.4, Benchmark B 4.3,
Benchmark B 5.2
Standard-Science and Technology
Organzier-Understanding Technology
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 5.1, Benchmark A 4.2,
Benchmark A 3.2
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Stream Table
This is an exciting hands-on way to learn about stream morphology. The stream table is available for loan, teaching concepts of stream behavior. A teaching guide is included; the stream table can demonstrate stream bank erosion, streambank protection, stream energy and slope change, among other concepts.
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer-Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 5.6
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Adaption Artistry
Students identify and describe the advantages of adaptations by animals such as birds. Students design and create an imaginary bird with adaptations made from recycled materials. The students then write a short story describing their bird and the importance of their adaptations.
Standard-Life Sciences
Organizer-Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.2, Benchmark B 3.3
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Incredible Journey
Students play a game where they learn the 3 states of water as water molecules move through the water cycle.
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organzier-Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark D 4.2, Benchmark D 4.3
Standard-Physical Sciences
Organzier-Nature of Matter
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 4.1
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Enviroscape Watershed Model
This models helps students understand what a watershed is and how it drains. Students will place simulated pollutants on the land to see how we contribute to water pollution.
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer-Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 5.6
Standard-Life Sciences
Organizer-Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 3.6, Benchmark C 5.4,
Benchmark C 5.5, Benchmark C 5.6
Standard-Science and Technology
Organizer-Ability to do Technological Design
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.5, Benchmark B 5.3
Standard-Science and Technology
Organizer-Understanding Technology
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 3.1, Benchmark A 3.2,
Benchmark A 5.1
Standard-Scientific Inquiry
Organizer-Doing Scientific Inquiry
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.5, Benchmark B 4.2,
Benchmark B 5.3, Benchmark B 3.6, Benchmark B 5.6
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SUM of the Parts
Students demonstrate how everyone contributes to the pollution of a river and recognize that everyone has a responsibility to reduce their contribution.
Standard-Life Sciences
Organizer-Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 3.6, Benchmark C 5.5,
Benchmark C 5.6
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organzier-Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 5.5, Benchmark C 5.6
Standard-Science and Technology
Organizer-Understanding Technology
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 3.2, Benchmark A 3.3,
Benchmark A 5.1
Standard-Science and Technology
Organizer-Ability to do Technological Design
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.4, Benchmark B 5.2
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Groundwater Model
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer-Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 3.5, Benchmark C 3.6
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer-The Universe
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 3.4
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Get the Groundwater Picture
Students learn about the basic principles of groundwater as they create a geologic cross section or 'earth window'.
Standard-Earth and Space Sciences
Organizer-Earth Systems
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 3.5, Benchmark C 3.6
Standard-Science and Technology
Organizer-Understanding Technology
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 5.1
Standard-Scientific Inquiry
Organizer-Doing Scientific Inquiry
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 4.3, Benchmark C 4.4,
Benchmark B 5.2
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Macroinvertibrate Mayhem
Standard-Life Sciences
Organizer-Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.2, Benchmark B 3.3,
Benchmark B 3.6, Benchmark C 5.4, Benchmark C 5.5, Benchmark C 5.6
Standard-Science and Technology
Organizer-Ability to do Technological Design
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 5.3
Standard-Science and Technology
Organizer-Understanding Technology
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 3.2, Benchmark A 5.1
Standard-Scientific Inquiry
Organizer-Doing Scientific Inquiry
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.2, Benchmark B 3.5,
Benchmark B 5.2, Benchmark B 5.3, Benchmark C 5.4
Standard-Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer-Ethical Practices
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 4.4
Standard-Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer-Nature of Science
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 5.2, Benchmark C 4.2
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Indoor Stream Monitoring
Students utilize scientific inquiry to compare 2 different artificial streams. They sein for macroinvertebrates and learn how these macroinvertebrates can determine the quality of water in a stream.Students learn how tolerance to water quality conditions varies from species to species.
Standard-Life Sciences
Organizer-Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.2, Benchmark B 3.3,
Benchmark C 3.6, Benchmark B 5.2, Benchmark B 5.3, Benchmark C 5.4,
Benchmark C 5.5, Benchmark C 5.6
Standard-Life Sciences
Organizer-Heredity
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 3.1
Standard-Science and Technology
Organizer-Ability to do Technological Design
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 5.3
Standard-Science and Technology
Organizer-Understanding Technology
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 3.2, Benchmark A 3.3,
Benchmark A 5.1
Standard-Scientific Inquiry
Organzier-Doing Scientific Inquiry
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark A 3.1, Benchmark B 3.2,
Benchmark B 3.3, Benchmark B 3.5, Benchmark C 3.4, Benchmark C 3.6,
Benchmark A 4.1, Benchmark C 4.4, Benchmark C 4.5, Benchmark C 4.6,
Benchmark A 5.1, Benchmark B 5.2, Benchmark B 5.3, Benchmark C 5.4,
Benchmark C 5.5, Benchmark C 5.6
Standard-Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer-Ethical Practices
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark C 3.2, Benchmark C 4.4,
Benchmark C 5.5
Standard-Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organizer-Nature of Science
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark B 3.1, Benchmark A 4.1,
Benchmark B 4.3, Benchmark C 4.2, Benchmark A 5.1, Benchmark B 5.2,
Benchmark B 5.3, Benchmark B 5.4
Standard-Scientific Ways of Knowing
Organzier-Science and Technology
Benchmark and Grade Level Indicator-Benchmark D 3.4, Benchmark D 3.5,
Benchmark D 5.6
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