Ohio’s Learning Standards
Grade 2
Life Science – Interactions Within Habitats
- Living things cause changes on Earth.
- All organisms alive today result from their ancestors, some of which may be extinct. Not all kinds of organisms that lived in the past are represented by living organisms today.
Grade 3
Life Science – Behavior, Growth, and Change
- Offspring resemble their parents and each other.
- Individuals of the same kind of organism differ in their inherited traits. These differences give some individuals an advantage in surviving and/or reproducing.
- Plants and animals have life cycles that are part of their adaptations for survival in their natural environments.
Grade 4
Life Science – Earth's Living History
- Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful.
- Fossils can be compared to one another and to present-day organisms according to their similarities and differences.
