Ohio Academic Standards
Nocturnal Adventures Programs
Animal Adaptations Overnight
(recommended for Ohio 2nd-4th grades)
Grade 2
Grade Band Theme: Observations of the Environment
Strand: Life Science
Topic: Interactions with Habitats
Content Statements:
Living things cause changes on Earth.
Grade 3
Grade Band Theme: Observations of the Environment
Strand: Life Science
Topic: Behavior, Growth and Changes
Content Statements:
Offspring resemble their parents and each other.
Individuals of the same kind differ in their traits and sometimes the differences give individuals an advantage
in surviving and reproducing.
Plants and animals have life cycles that are part of their adaptations for survival in their natural
environments.
Grade 4
Grade Band Theme: Interconnections within Systems
Strand: Life Science
Topic: Earth’s Living History
Content Statements:
Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful.
Updated 2015 CZBG