Content+Standards

=Ohio Content Standards=

A. Observe constant and changing patterns of objects in the day and night sky.. Recognize that there are more stars in the sky than anyone can easily count. 2. Observe and describe how the sun, moon and stars all appear to move slowly across the sky. 3. Observe and describe how the moon appears a little different every day but looks nearly the same again about every four weeks.
 * Grade 2**

1. Describe how night and day are caused by Earth's rotation. 2. Explain that Earth is one of several planets to orbit the sun, and that the moon orbits Earth. 3. Describe the characteristics of Earth and its orbit about the sun (e.g., three-fourths of Earth's surface is covered by a layer of water [some of it frozen], the entire planet surrounded by a thin blanket of air, elliptical orbit, tilted axis and spherical planet). 4. Explain that stars are like the sun, some being smaller and some larger, but so far away that they look like points of light.
 * Grade 5**