Ohio Academic Standards
Nocturnal Adventures Programs
African Predator Prowl Overnight
(recommended for Ohio 2nd grade and up)
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: Earth and Space Science
Topic: Earth’s Resources
Content Statements:
Earth’s nonliving resources have specific properties.
Earth’s resources can be used for energy.
Some of Earth’s resources are limited.
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.
Grade 5
Grade Band Theme: Interconnections within Systems
Strand: Life Science
Topic: Interactions within Ecosystems
Content Statements:
Organisms perform a variety of roles in an ecosystem.
All of the Processes that take place within organisms require energy.
Updated 2015 CZBG
Grade 6
Grade Band Theme: Order and Organization
Strand: Life Science
Topic: Cellular to Multicellular
Content Statements:
Living systems at all levels of organization demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function.
Grade 7
Grade Band Theme: Order and Organization
Strand: Life Science
Topic: Cycles of Matter and Flow of Energy
Content Statements:
Matter is transferred continuously between one organism to another and between organisms and their
environments.
In any particular biome, the number, growth, and survival of organisms and populations depend on biotic
and abiotic factors.
Grade 8
Grade Band Theme: Order and Organization
Strand: Life Science
Topic: Species and Reproduction
Content Statements:
Diversity of species occurs through gradual processes over many generations. Fossil records provide evidence
that changes have occurred in number and types of species.
Reproduction is necessary for the continuation of every species.
Biology
Evolution & Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Content Elaboration:
 Evolution: Mechanisms, Diversity of Life
 Diversity and Interdependence of Life: Classification systems, Ecosystems
Environmental Science
Earth Systems
Content Elaboration:
 Biosphere: Evolution and adaptation, Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Population dynamics
 Movement of Matter and Energy: Energy transformations on global, regional, local scales, Ecosystems, Climate and
weather
Updated 2015 CZBG