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6 Science Ohio Content Standards Indicators This
class's course of study, or "what you will learn," is
the 6th Grade Science Ohio Content Standards. These
standards were set up by the state of Ohio and will be tested in
future state tests such as the State Achievement Test and the
Ohio Graduation Test needed in order to graduate from high
school.
1.
Describe the rock cycle and explain that there are
sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks that have
distinct properties (e.g., color, texture) and are formed
in different ways.
2.
Explain that rocks are made of one or more minerals.
3.
Identify minerals by their characteristic properties.
1.
Explain that many of the basic functions of organisms are
carried out by or within cells and are similar in all
organisms.
2.
Explain that multicellular organisms have a variety of
specialized cells, tissues, organs and organ systems that
perform specialized functions.
3.
Identify how plant cells differ from animal cells (e.g.,
cell wall and chloroplasts).
Heredity
4.
Recognize that an individual organism does not live
forever; therefore reproduction is necessary for the
continuation of every species and traits are passed on to
the next generation through reproduction.
5.
Describe that in asexual reproduction all the inherited
traits come from a single parent.
6.
Describe that in sexual reproduction an egg and sperm
unite and some traits come from each parent, so the
offspring is never identical to either of its parents.
7.
Recognize that likenesses between parents and offspring
(e.g., eye color, flower color) are inherited. Other
likenesses, such as table manners are learned.
Diversity andInterdependence ofLife
8.
Describe how organisms may interact with one another.
1.
Explain that equal volumes of different substances usually
have different masses.
2.
Describe that in a chemical change new substances are
formed with different properties than the original
substance (e.g., rusting, burning).
3.
Describe that in a physical change (e.g., state, shape and
size) the chemical properties of a substance remain
unchanged.
4.
Describe that chemical and physical changes occur all
around us (e.g., in the human body, cooking and industry).
Nature of Energy
5.
Explain that the energy found in nonrenewable resources
such as fossil fuels (e.g., oil, coal and natural gas)
originally came from the sun and may renew slowly over
millions of years.
6.
Explain that energy derived from renewable resources such
as wind and water is assumed to be available indefinitely.
7.
Describe how electric energy can be produced from a
variety of sources (e.g., sun, wind and coal).
8.
Describe how renewable and nonrenewable energy resources
can be managed (e.g., fossil fuels, trees and water).
1.
Explain how technology influences the quality of life.
2.
Explain how decisions about the use of products and
systems can result in desirable or undesirable
consequences (e.g., social and environmental).
3.
Describe how automation (e.g., robots) has changed
manufacturing including manual labor being replaced by
highly-skilled jobs.
4.
Explain how the usefulness of manufactured parts of an
object depend on how well their properties allow them to
fit and interact with other materials.
Abilities To DoTechnologicalDesign
5.
Design and build a product or create a solution to a
problem given one constraint (e.g., limits of cost and
time for design and production, supply of materials and
environmental effects).
1.
Explain that there are not fixed procedures for guiding
scientific investigations; however, the nature of an
investigation determines the procedures needed.
2.
Choose the appropriate tools or instruments and use
relevant safety procedures to complete scientific
investigations.
3.
Distinguish between observation and inference.
4.
Explain that a single example can never prove that
something is always correct, but sometimes a single
example can disprove something.
