Mission Ground Truth: 21 addresses the following Science Standards for the State of Ohio.
Earth and Space Science
Earth Systems
1. Explain the biogeochemical cycles which move materials between the lithosphere (land), hydrosphere (water) and atmosphere (air).
2. Explain the Earth’s capacity to absorb and recycle materials naturally can change the environmental quality depending on the length of time involved.
3. Describe the water cycle and explain the transfer of energy between the atmosphere and hydrosphere.
4. Analyze the data on the availability of fresh water that is essential for life and for most industrial and agricultural processes. Describe how rivers, lakes and groundwater can be depleted or polluted becoming less hospitable to life and even becoming unavailable or unsuitable for life.
6. Determine how weather observations and measurements are combined to produce weather maps and that data for a specific location at one point in time can be displayed in a station model.
7. Read a weather map to interpret local, regional, and national weather.
8. Describe how temperature and precipitation determine climatic zones (biomes)
Life Sciences
Diversity and Interdependence of Life
2. Investigate how organisms or populations may interact with one another through symbiotic relationships and how some species have become so adapted to each other that neither could survive without the other
3. Explain how the number of organisms an ecosystem can support depends on adequate biotic resources and abiotic resources
4. Investigate how overpopulation impacts an ecosystem.
5. Explain that some environmental changes occur slowly while other occur rapidly.
6. Summarize the ways that natural occurrences and human activity affect the transfer of energy in Earth’s ecosystems.
Evolutionary Theory
8. Investigate the great diversity among organisms.
Science and Technology
Understanding Technology
1. Explain how needs, attitudes, and values influence the direction of technological development in various cultures.
2. Describe how decisions to develop and use technologies often put environmental and economic concerns in direct competition with each other.
3. Recognize that science can only answer some questions and technology can only solve some human problems.
Scientific Inquiry
Doing Scientific Inquiry
3. Formulate and identify questions to guide scientific investigations that connect to science concepts and can be answered through scientific investigations.
4. Choose the appropriate tools and instruments and use relevant safety procedures to complete scientific investigations.
5. Analyze alternative scientific explanations and predictions and recognize that there may be more than one good way to interpret a given set of data.
6. Identify faulty reasoning and statements that go beyond the evidence or misinterpret the evidence.
7. Use graphs, tables, and charts to study physical phenomena and infer mathematical relationships between variables.
Scientific Ways of Knowing
Ethical Practices
1. Show that the reproducibility of results is essential to reduce bias in scientific investigation.
2. Describe how repetition of an experiment may reduce bias.
Science and Society
3. Describe how the work of science requires a variety of human abilities and qualities that are helpful in daily life.
