Science for Ohio: Academic Content Standards Alignment for Science--FIFTH GRADE
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This chart identifies ALL strand areas in the Fifth Grade standards. Areas highlighted in yellow are addressed if all of the inquiries identified below are implemented.
Note: Generally, a Science for Ohio inquiry is not included in in a grade level unless it has one or more of the Earth and Space, Life, or Physical science (content-oriented) strands. Indicator statements for these three strands are listed below under the heading Ohio Academic Standard.

Ohio Academic Standard: Explain how the supply of many non-renewable resources is limited and can be extended through reducing, reusing and recycling but cannot be extended indefinitely.

Ohio Academic Standard: Explain that Earth is one of several planets to orbit the sun, and that the moon orbits Earth.

Ohio Academic Standard:

• Describe how night and day are caused by Earth's rotation.
• Describe the characteristics of Earth and its orbit about the sun (e.g., three-fourths of Earth's surface is covered by a layer of water [some of it frozen], the entire planet surrounded by a thin blanket of air, elliptical orbit, tilted axis and spherical planet).

Ohio Academic Standard: Investigate ways Earth's renewable resources (e.g., fresh water, air, wildlife and trees) can be maintained.

The Water Cycle

Ohio Academic Standard: Investigate ways Earth's renewable resources (e.g., fresh water, air, wildlife and trees) can be maintained. Note: See The Water Cycle and Pollution portion of this inquiry.

Ohio Academic Standard:

• Describe the role of producers in the transfer of energy entering ecosystems as sunlight to chemical energy through photosynthesis. Explain how almost all kinds of animals' food can be traced back to plants. Trace the organization of simple food chains and food webs (e.g., producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and decomposers). 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.

Ohio Academic Standard: Generally, a Science for Ohio inquiry is not included in a grade level unless it has one or more of the Earth and Space, Life, or Physical science strands. However, this inquiry strongly addresses Scientific Inquiry and Scientific Ways of Knowing indicators and is therefore recommended for fifth grade instruction.

Ohio Academic Standard: . Generally, a Science for Ohio inquiry is not included in a grade level unless it has one or more of the Earth and Space, Life, or Physical science strands. However, this inquiry strongly addresses Scientific Inquiry and Scientific Ways of Knowing indicators and is therefore recommended for fifth grade instruction.

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Ohio Academic Standard: Generally, a Science for Ohio inquiry is not included in a grade level unless it has one or more of the Earth and Space, Life, or Physical science strands. However, this inquiry strongly addresses Scientific Inquiry and Scientific Ways of Knowing indicators and is therefore recommended for fifth grade instruction.

Ohio Academic Standard: Generally, a Science for Ohio inquiry is not included in a grade level unless it has one or more of the Earth and Space, Life, or Physical science strands. However, this inquiry strongly addresses Scientific Inquiry and Scientific Ways of Knowing indicators and is therefore recommended for fifth grade instruction.