Provide professional development resources for teachers, aligning with state goals.
Support pre-service mathematics and science teacher education.
The first section, Ohio’s Benchmark, lists the benchmark and its associated indicators.
The second section, Implications for Instruction, provides clear, concise information in the following four categories:
* Clarification for Instruction;
* Connections to Other Benchmarks;
* Connections to the Previous Grade Bands;
* Connections to the Next Grade Bands.
This information may serve as guidance for teachers and may reference terms or resources not explicitly stated in the benchmarks or grade-level indicators. It provides relevant grade-band-appropriate information for classroom teachers on the benchmarks and indicators.
The third section, Teacher Background, provides background on the content covered in the benchmarks in Ohio’s Academic Content Standards for Science. The resources in this section provide informative, grade-band-appropriate content explanations for classroom teachers. By following the links, users can access supporting materials from several national science standards-based documents. (It may be necessary to use the section headers and page numbers given in order to access the appropriate portion of the document or Web site.)
