Ohio's Academic Content Standards in Science

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This lesson serves as an introduction to fossils. Students observe a variety of objects and classify them as fossils or nonfossils....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Students develop a leaf classification system in this lesson. The lesson begins with a discussion of how classification systems are used in daily life....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This lesson presents an opportunity for students to explore temperature and thermometers. Students begin by measuring the temperature in different locations around the school....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Students experimentally measure the strength of a magnet and graph how the strength changes as the distance from the magnet increases and as the barrier (masking tape) is built between the magnet and an iron object. This lesson gives students guided practice using simple equipment to test a question, tools to extend their senses, and...

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This article takes a "tried and true" activity, seed germination, and makes it better. The article describes a learning cycle activity sequence that enables fourth-grade children to improve their inquiry ability and develop their understanding of factors influencing seed germination....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This instructional resource includes a series of lessons that allow elementary students to investigate weather phenomena both locally and in other places around the world. Students engage in both hands-on activities and real-time data investigations using information available on the Internet....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This lesson provides an opportunity for students to develop experimental design skills in the context of a familiar event (floating and sinking) while furthering their understanding of the concepts of density and buoyancy. Students first classify a group of common objects by a characteristic of their own choosing....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This lesson uses a technique called paper chromatography to separate the ink colors in water soluble markers. The core activity of the lesson will help children gain experience in conducting simple investigations of their own while working in small groups....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Students are asked to review data that is presented in a table and from the data determine which of the three minerals can scratch the other minerals. Students are also asked to explain their answer....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This professional resource provides suggestions for using the book First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane, in science instruction. It also provides a list of related ORC resources that when used in conjunction with the book, support inquiry instruction on the topic of technological design....