Activity 1: Make a Reusable Bag
Ohio Learning Standards
 1.LS.1: Living things have basic needs, which are met by obtaining materials from the physical environment
 2.MD.1: Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.
 4.LS.1: Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful.
Next Generation Science Standards
 K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
 3-LS4-4: Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.


Activity 2: Play Hungry, Hungry Humboldts
Ohio Learning Standards
 K.OA.1: Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.
 1.LS.2: Living things survive only in environments that meet their needs.
 4.LS.1: Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful.
 5.LS.2: All of the processes that take place within organisms require energy.
 7.LS.2: In any particular biome, the number, growth and survival of organisms and populations depend on biotic and abiotic factors.
Next Generation Science Standards
 K-ESS3-1: Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.
 3-LS4-4: Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.
 MS-LS2-2: Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.


Activity 3: Make a Bee Hotel
Ohio Learning Standards
 3.LS.3: Plants and animals have life cycles that are part of their adaptations for survival in their natural environments.
 5.LS.1: Organisms perform a variety of roles in an ecosystem.
Next Generation Science Standards
 K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
 2.LS.2-2a: Plants depend on animals for pollination or to move their seeds around.


Activity 4: Giraffe Checkup
Ohio Learning Standards
 K.LS.1: Living things have specific characteristics and traits.
 3-5.DT.3.b: Explore and document connections between technology and other fields of study.
Next Generation Science Standards
 K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.


Activity 5: Climate Impact
Ohio Learning Standards
 1.ESS.1: The sun is the principal source of energy.
 2.GeographyStrand.7: Human activities alter the physical environment, both positively and negatively.
Next Generation Science Standards
 K-PS3-1: Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth's surface.
 K-ESS3.3: Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.


Activity 6: Build a Habitat
Ohio Learning Standards
 1.LS.1: Living things have basic needs, which are met by obtaining materials from the physical environment.
 1.LS.2: Living things survive only in environments that meet their needs.
 5.4.PR: Select and use the elements and principles of art and design to communicate understanding of an interdisciplinary concept.
 6.6.PR: Integrate elements of art and design to solve interdisciplinary problem.
Next Generation Science Standards
 K-ESS3-1: Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.


While specific Ohio Science Learning Standards do not directly address scientific observation, the overarching student-centered goals for ALL grade levels include helping students to:
• Experience excitement, interest and motivation to learn about phenomena in the natural and physical world.
• Manipulate, test, explore, predict, question, observe and make sense of the natural and physical world
• Reflect on science as a way of knowing; on processes, concepts and institutions of science; and on their own process of learning about phenomena.
• Think of themselves as science learners and develop an identity as someone who knows about, uses and sometimes contributes to science.

In this box, your child will also find opportunities to write down their scientific findings in their workbook and connect to digital learning resources through COSI Connects. This will allow them to reach English Language Arts, Technology and Digital Literacy Learning standards.
Kindergarten through 2nd Grade
K-2.ICT.3.b.: Use visuals found in digital learning tools and resources to clarify and add to knowledge.
W.K.2: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/ explanatory texts that name what is being written about and supply some information about the topic.
W.1.8: With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
W.2.8: Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
K-2.ST.2.a.: Communicate and collaborate using several digital methods.
3rd through 5th Grade
3-5.ICT.1.a.: With guidance, identify and use digital learning tools or resources to support planning, implementing and reflecting upon a defined task.
W.3-5.10: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
3-5.ICT.4.d.: Produce and publish information appropriate for a target audience using digital learning tools and resources.
6th through 8th Grade
6-8.ICT.4.b.: Select and use a variety of media formats to communicate information to a target audience.