Ohio: Earth and Space Sciences Grade Level Indicators Access to the Ohio Science Standards in PDF form.
| Grade Level | Standard | GLOBE Protocol/Activity | NASA Resource |
| Kindergarten ESS | Observing, exploring, describing and comparing weather changes, patterns in the sky and seasonal changes | Protocols: Air temperature, Clouds, Precipitation, Surface Temperature Source: Do You Know Clouds Have Names Activities: | NASA Wavelength Digital Library: Satellites that observe clouds or atmosphere |
| Kindergarten LS | Observing, exploring, describing and comparing living things in Ohio | Protocols: Air Temperature, Surface Temperature Source: Mystery of the Missing Humming Birds Activities: | NASA Wavelength Digital Library: SATELLITE: |
| Grade Level | Standard | GLOBE Protocol/Activity | NASA Resource |
| Kindergarten PS | Observing, exploring, describing and comparing Earth materials | Protocols: Soil temperature, Source: The Scoop on Soils Activities: | NASA Wavelength Digital Library: Activities: SATELLITE: |
| Grade 1 ESS | The Sun is Earth's source of Energy. The changes in energy that occur to land, air and water | Protocols: Soil temperature, Source: Mystery of the Missing Humming Birds Activity: | NASA Wavelength Digital Library: SATELLITE: |
| Grade 1 PS | Living things have basic needs which are met by obtaining materials from the physical environment. Living things will only live in environments that meet their needs. | Protocols: Soil temperature, Source: All About Earth Activities: | NASA Wavelength Digital Library:
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| Grade Level | Standard | GLOBE Protocol/Activity | NASA Resource |
| Grade 2 ESS | Focuses on air and water as it relates to weather and weather changes | Protocols: Source: Do You Know Clouds have Names? Activities: | 1. Rain Gauge Activity SATELLITE: GPM |
| Grade 2 PS | Focuses on how ecosystems work by observations of simple interactions between the biotic/living and abiotioc/nonliving parts of an ecosystems. Living things impact the environment in which they interact just as the environment impacts living things in that environment. | Protocols: Source: All About Earth, The World on Stage Activities: Source: Discoveries at Willow Creek Activity: | NASA Wavelength Digital Library: 1.Introducing Habitats and Biodiversity https://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/teachersite/BD1.htm 2.The Air We Breathe https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/62452main_The_Air_We_Breathe.pdf 3. Nature Mapping https://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/teachersite/BD2.htm 4. Water Wonders http://bit.ly/2ni2f1b |
| Grade Level | Standard | GLOBE Protocol/Activity | NASA Resource |
| Grade 3 ESS | Focuses on the nonliving resources of air, water, soil, rock and the energy resources. | Protocols: Source: Discoveries at Willow Creed Activities: Source: Activities: |
Rainsticks and Folklore Satellites: Based on the Questions to be Answered |
| Grade 3 PS | Matter has specific properties and different properties are found in all substances on Earth | Protocols: Source: Discoveries at Willow Creek Activity: Source: What’s Up In the Activity: Source: The Scoop on Soil Activities: | NASA Wavelength Digital Library: http://nasawavelength.org Uncovering Martian Water (Properties of Water) http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/pdf/lesson_12.pdf Ice is a Mineral http://www.messenger-education.org/library/pdf/ice_mineral.pdf Water in Earth’s Hydrosphere https://go.nasa.gov/2nN0EUX |
- Explain that air surrounds us, takes up space, moves around us as wind, and may be measured as barometric pressure.
- Identify how water exists in the air in different forms (e.g., in clouds, fog, rain, snow and hail).
- Investigate how water changes from one state to another (e.g., freezing, melting, condensation, evaporation).
- Describe weather by measurable quantities such as temperature, wind direction, wind speed, precipitation, and barometric pressure.
- Record local weather information on a calendar or map and describe changes over a period of time (e.g., barometric pressure, temperature, precipitation symbols, cloud conditions).
- Trace how weather patterns generally move from west to east in the United States.
- Describe the weather which accompanies cumulus, cumulonimbus, cirrus and stratus clouds.
- Explain that Earth's capacity to absorb and recycle materials naturally (e.g., smoke, smog, sewage) can change the environmental quality depending on the length of time involved (e.g. global warming).
- Describe the water cycle and explain the transfer of energy between the atmosphere and hydrosphere.
- Make simple weather predictions based on the changing cloud types associated with frontal systems.
- Determine how weather observations and measurements are combined to produce weather maps and that data for a specific location at one point in time can be displayed in a station model.
- Read a weather map to interpret local, regional and national weather.
- Describe the connection between the water cycle and weather-related phenomenon (e.g., tornadoes, floods, droughts, hurricanes).
- Explain the relationships of the oceans to the lithosphere and atmosphere (e.g., transfer of energy, ocean currents, landforms).
Historical Perspectives and Scientific Revolutions
- Use historical examples to explain how new ideas are limited by the context in which they are conceived; are often initially rejected by the scientific establishment; sometimes spring from unexpected findings; and usually grow slowly, through contributions from many different investigators (e.g., heliocentric theory and plate tectonics theory).
- Explain climate and weather patterns associated with certain geographic locations and features (e.g., tornado alley, tropical hurricanes and lake effect snow).
- Describe how organisms on Earth contributed to the dramatic change in oxygen content of Earth's early atmosphere.
- Describe advances and issues in Earth and space science that have important long-lasting effects on science and society (e.g., geologic time scales, global warming, depletion of resources, exponential population growth).
- Explain heat and energy transfers in and out of the atmosphere and its involvement in weather and climate (radiation, conduction, convection and advection).
- Explain the impact of oceanic and atmospheric currents on weather and climate.
- Use appropriate data to analyze and predict upcoming trends in global weather patterns (e.g., el Niño and la Niña, melting glaciers and icecaps, changes in ocean surface temperatures).
- Explain how interactions among Earth's lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere have resulted in the ongoing changes of the Earth system.
- Explain the effects of biomass and human activity on climate (e.g., climatic change, global warming).
- Interpret weather maps and their symbols to predict changing weather conditions worldwide (e.g., monsoons, hurricanes and cyclones).
- Use historical examples to show how new ideas are limited by the context in which they are conceived; are often rejected by the social establishment; sometimes spring from unexpected findings; and usually grow slowly, through contributions from many different investigators (e.g., global warming, heliocentric theory, theory of continental drift).
- Describe advances in earth and space science that have important long-lasting effects on science and society (e.g., global warming, heliocentric theory, plate tectonics theory).