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Connect with Academic Standards
Connect with Academic Standards

Workshops focus on the process skills of science to insure all students can explore the world around them. Process Skills are the actions we take to “do” science and experience the world around us. Ohio Academic Standards
Basic skills must be mastered in order for students to understand the world in which they live. According to the Science Benchmarks, by the end of fifth grade students should be able to do a variety of things including:

  • Explain that to construct something requires planning, communicating, problem solving, and tools. (Science and technology standard, Benchmark B)

  • Explain the importance of keeping records of observations and investigations that are accurate and understandable. (Scientific Ways of Knowing, Benchmark C)

  • Develop, design, and safely conduct scientific investigations and communicate the results (Scientific Inquiry, Benchmark C)

Scientific Process Skills

1) Observing - using your senses to explore the world around you

2) Questioning - wondering about a phenomenon or event

3) Sorting - organizing objects based on characteristics

4) Comparing - describing as similar or different in structure or function

5) Measuring - comparing with a standard to determine quantity, dimension, or capacity

6) Predicting - deciding what will happen next

7) Communicating - sharing ideas through words, pictures, or actions		   Watch an Autopsy

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