Habitat is Home
Grade One and Grade Two
Meet some of Ohio’s native wildlife and learn more about where they live.
Standards Addressed by this Topic:
Earth and Space Sciences
Benchmark D
Describe what resources are and recognize some are limited but can be extended through recycling or decreased use.
Grade One Indicators
1. Identify that resources are things that we get from the living (e.g., forests) and nonliving (e.g., minerals, water) environment and that resources are necessary to meet the needs and wants of a population.
2. Explain that the supply of many resources is limited, but the supply can be extended through careful use, decreased use, reusing and/or recycling.
Life Sciences
Benchmark A
Discover that there are living things, non-living things and pretend things, and
describe the basic needs of living things.
Grade One Indicators
1. Explore that organisms, including people, have basic needs which include air, water, food, living space and shelter.
4. Investigate that animals eat plants and/or other animals for food and may also use plants or other animals for shelter and nesting.
Grade Two Indicators
1. Explain that animals, including people, need air, water, food, living space and shelter; plants need air, water, nutrients (e.g., minerals), living space and light to survive.
5. Explain that food is a basic need of plants and animals (e.g., plants need sunlight to make food and to grow, animals eat plants and/or other animals for food, food chain) and is important because it is a source of energy.
Benchmark B
Explain how organisms function and interact with their physical environment.
Grade One Indicator
2. Explain that food comes from sources other than grocery stores.
Grade Two Indicators
2. Identify that there are many distinct environments that support different kinds of organisms.
3. Explain why organisms can survive only in environments that meet their needs
7. Compare the habitats of many different kinds of Ohio plants and animals and some of the ways animals depend on plants and each other.
Science and Technology
Benchmark A
Explain why people, when building or making something, need to determine what it will be made of, how it will affect other people and the environment.
Grade One Indicator
3. Identify some materials that can be saved for community recycling projects.
Scientific Inquiry
Benchmark A
Ask a testable question.
Grade One Indicators
1. Ask ""what happens when"" questions.
2. Explore and pursue student-generated ""what happens when"" questions.
Grade Two Indicators
1. Ask ""how can I/we"" questions.
2. Ask ""how do you know"" questions (not ""why"" questions) in appropriate situations and attempt to give reasonable answers when others ask questions.
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