The STANDARDS CORRELATION chart suggests which Ohio Science Learning Outcomes you can cover using PASSPORT TO THE RAINFOREST in your classroom. We hope you will discover additional standards you can use. These are the ones our Instructional Materials Development team felt most directly related to the activities contained in PASSPORT TO THE RAINFOREST.
For additional Ohio Science Learning Outcomes you can cover see the STANDARDS CORRELATION chart for the following PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE projects:
PASSPORT TO WEATHER AND CLIMATE
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1. Create and use categories to organize a set of objects, organisms or phenomena.
video 2. Select instruments to make observations and/or organize observations of an event, object, or organism.
video 3. Identify and/or compare the mass, dimensions, and volume of familiar objects in standard and/or nonstandard units.
video 4. Use a simple key to distinguish between objects.
video 5. Analyze a series of events and/or simple daily or seasonal cycles and predict the next likely occurrence in the sequence.
video 6. Evaluate a simple procedure to carry out an exploration.
video 7. Identify and/or discuss the selection of resources and tools used for exploring scientific phenomena.
video 8. Evaluate observations and measurements made by other persons.
video 9. Demonstrate an understanding of safe use of materials and/or devices in science activities.
video 12. Explain and/or predict the motion of objects and/or describe the effects of some objects on other objects.
video 14. Identify and/or describe the relationship between human activity and the environment.
video 16. Demonstrate an understanding of the basic needs of living things.
video 17. Identify ways in which organisms react to changing environments.
video 18. Distinguish between living and nonliving things and provide justification for these distinctions.
video 1. Use a simple key to classify objects, organisms, and/or phenomena.
video 2. Identify the potential hazards and/or precautions involved in scientific investigations.
video 3. Make inferences from observations of phenomena and/or events.
video 4. Identify the positive and/or negative impact of technology on human activity.
video 5. Evaluate conclusions based on scientific data.
video 6. Recognize the advantages and/or disadvantages to the user in the operation of simple technological devices.
video 9. Provide examples of transformation and/or conservation of matter and energy in simple physical systems.
video 10. Identify simple patterns in physical phenomena.
video 13. Demonstrate an understanding of the cycling of resources on earth, such as carbon, nitrogen, and/or water.
video 14. Trace the transmission of energy in a small, simple ecosystem and/or identify the roles of organisms in the energy movement in an
ecosystem.
video 15. Compare and/or contrast the diversity of ways in which living things meet their needs.
video 17. Analyze the impacts of human activity on the ecosystems of the earth.
video 2. Distinguish between observation and inference given a representation of a scientific situation video 3. Identify and apply science safety procedures video 4. Demonstrate an understanding of the use of measuring devices and report data in appropriate units video 7. Describe interactions of matter and energy throughout the lithosphere, hydroshphere, and atmosphere video 13. Trace the flow of energy and/or interrelationships of organisms in an ecosystem video 14. Compare and contrast the characteristics of plants and animals video 15. Explain biological diversity in terms of the transmission of genetic characteristics video 16. Describe how organisms accomplish basic life functions at various levels of organization and structures video 17. Describe the ways scientific ideas have changed using historical contexts video 18. Compare renewable and nonrenewable resources and strategies for managing them video 19. Describe the relationship between technology and science video 20. Describe how a given environmental change affects an ecosystem video 1. Trace energy transformations, and/or apply the principles of mass/energy conservation to physical and biological systems video 4. Analyze the results of changing a component of simple systems video 5. Relate structure and function in physical and biological systems video 6. Predict the effect on an ecosystem due to a given or proposed environmental change video 7. Evaluate the scientific validity of data used in persuasive communication video 8. Formulate an experimental design to test a given hypothesis video 12. Demonstrate an understanding of units of measure and precision by using an appropriate measuring device for an application video 13. Identify the safety precautions that should be taken given a Manufacturers Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) or a product label with a key video 14. Relate the effects of biotic and abiotic factors to animal life including growth, reproduction, and behavior. video 15. Demonstrate an understanding that scientific theories and methods have developed and continue to develop throgh time video 16. Relate the effect of light and other factors on various aspects of plant life and growth, including photosynthesis and respiration,
germination, and tropism video 17. Relate patterns of diversity, extinction, adaptation, and speciation as a result of natural selection at the molecular and population levels video 18. Relate biodiversity to the stability of ecosystems within biomes videoFourth-Grade Proficiency Tests
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Sixth-Grade Proficiency Tests
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Ninth-Grade Proficiency Tests
Tell the difference between facts and assumptions
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Identify the safety precautions needed when doing an experiment
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Choose an instrument to make a certain measurement
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Explain materials cycles (water, carbon, nitrogen), currents, and
weather on the land, in the water, and in the air
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Identify the food chain in a lake
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Tell how plants and animals are alike and different
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Explain why there are different breeds of dogs or kinds of plants
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Describe a life function like digestion complete with the appropriate anatomy
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Describe how explanations of eclipses have changed over time
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Compare oil and sunlight as sources of energy
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How do science and inventions affect each other
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Describe how a flood or drought affects plant and animal life
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Twelfth-grade Proficiency Tests
Identify the changes in the forms of energy within a system
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Explain and predict how a change can affect a system like a lake, a machine, or a mountain range
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Use the structure of wings and feathers to explain why birds can fly
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Identify how an environmental change will disrupt the balance of an ecosystem
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Evaluate the adverstising claim of a soap product
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Design an experiment that will test an idea
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Identify the appropriate instrument needed to make a given measurement
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Know how to interpret safety precautions given on a MSDS or a product label
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Describe how living and nonliving (like fleas and floods) factors can affect animal life
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Describe how light and water affect plants
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Describe how light and water affect plants
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Explain why maple seeds that spin as they fall provide a survival advantage to the maple tree; Use DNA to explain how bulldogs and greyhounds are alike and different
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Explain why a forest is more stable than a corn field when a plant disease occurs
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