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Ohio Science Academic Content Standards (2010)
Science Inquiry and Application
Grade 2
Life Science
Interactions within Habitats
2.
Some kinds of individuals that once lived on Earth have completely disappeared, although they were something like others that are alive today.
Grade 4
Life Science
Earth’s Living History
2.
Fossils can be compared to one another and to present day organisms according to their similarities and differences.
Science Inquiry and Application
Grade 8
Life Science
Species and Reproduction
1.
Diversity of species occurs through gradual processes over many generations. Fossil records provide evidence that changes have occurred in number and types of species.
High School
Biology
Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Classification systems are frameworks created by scientists for describing the vast diversity of organisms indicating the degree of relatedness between organisms.
Ohio Science Academic Content Standards (2002)
Life Sciences
Benchmarks (3–5)
C.
Compare changes in an organism's ecosystem/habitat that affect its survival.
Benchmarks (6–8)
D.
Explain how extinction of a species occurs when the environment changes and its adaptive characteristics are insufficient to allow survival (as seen in evidence of the fossil record).
Benchmarks (9–10)
I.
Explain how natural selection and other evolutionary mechanisms account for the unity and diversity of past and present life forms.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 3)
4.
Use examples to explain that extinct organisms may resemble organisms that are alive today.
5.
Observe and explore how fossils provide evidence about animals that lived long ago and the nature of the environment at that time.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 4)
4.
Observe and explore that fossils provide evidence about plants that lived long ago and the nature of the environment at that time.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 8)
4.
Explain that diversity of species is developed through gradual processes over many generations (e.g., fossil record).
5.
Investigate how an organism adapted to a particular environment may become extinct if the environment, as shown by the fossil record, changes.
Grade Level Indicators (Grade 10)
24.
Analyze how natural selection and other evolutionary mechanisms (e.g. genetic drift, immigration, emigration, mutation) and their consequences provide a scientific explanation for the diversity and unity of past life forms, as depicted in the fossil record, and present life forms.
National Science Education Standards
Earth and Space Science
Properties of earth materials (Grades Kindergarten - 4)
Earth's history (Grades 5 - 8)