STARLAB PLANETARIUM

Plate Tectonics

Take a journey to the center of the Earth as we explore volcanoes, earthquakes, “hot spots” and rock layers.  Find out if Africa was really once connected to South America, and if California is going to fall into the Pacific Ocean.

Science

Earth and Space Sciences

Benchmark E Grade 6 – 8 Describe the processes that contribute to the continuous changing of Earth’s surface (e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, erosion, mountain building and lithospheric plate movements).

Grade 8 Indicator 9. Describe the interior structure of Earth and Earth’s crust as divided into tectonic plates riding on top of the slow moving currents of magma in the mantle.

Indicator 10. Explain that most major geological events (e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hot spots and mountain building) result from plate motion.  Indicator 11. Use models to analyze the size and shape of Earth, its surface and its interior (e.g., globes, topographic maps, satellite images).

Indicator 12. Explain that some processes involved in the rock cycle are directly related to thermal energy and forces in the mantle that drive plate motions.  Indicator 13. Describe how landforms are created through a combination of destructive (e.g., weathering and erosion) and constructive processes (e.g., crustal deformation, volcanic eruptions and deposition of sediment).

Indicator 14. Explain that folding, faulting and uplifiting can rearrange the rock layers to the youngest is not always found on top.

Indicator 15. Illustrate how the three primary types of plate boundaries (transform, divergent and convergent) cause different landforms (e.g., mountains, volcanoes and ocean trenches).

Physical Science

Benchmark D Grade 6 – 8 Describe that energy takes many forms, some forms represent kinetic energy and some forms represent potential energy and during energy transformations the total amount of energy remains constant.

Grade 8 Indicator 4. Demonstrate that waves transfer energy.

Indicator 5. Demonstrate that vibrations in materials may produce waves that spread away from the source in all directions (e.g., earthquake waves and sound waves).

Scientific Ways of Knowing

Benchmark A Grade 6 – 8 Use skills of scientific inquiry processes.

Grade 8 Indicator 1. Identify the difference between description (e.g., observation and summary) and explanation (e.g., inference, predictions, significance and importance).

English Language Arts

Acquisition of Vocabulary

Benchmark A Grades K – 3 Use context clues to determine the meaning of new vocabulary words.

Grade K Indicator 1. Understand new words from the context of conversations or from the use of pictures within a text.

Grade 2 Indicator 10. Determine the meaning and pronunciations of unknown words using a beginner’s dictionary, glossaries and technology.

Communication:  Oral and Visual

Benchmark A Grade K – 3 Use active listening strategies to identify the main idea and to gain information from oral presentations.

Grade K Indicator 1. Listen attentively to speakers, stories, poems and songs.

Grade 1 Indicator 1. Use active listening skills, such as making eye contact or asking questions.

Indicator 1. Compare what is heard with prior knowledge and experience.  Indicator 3. Follow simple oral directions.

Grade 2 Indicator 1. Use active listening strategies, such as making eye contact and asking for clarification and explanation.

Indicator 2. Compare what is heard with prior knowledge and experience.  Indicator 3. Identify the main idea of oral presentations and visual media.  Indicator 4. Follow two- and three-step oral directions.

Grade 3 Indicator 1. Ask questions for clarification and explanation, and respondto others’ ideas.

Indicator 2. Identify the main idea, supporting details and purpose of oral presentations and visual media.

Benchmark E Grade K – 3 Deliver a variety of presentations that include relevant information and a clear sense of purpose.

Grade K Indicator 5. Deliver informal descriptive or informational presentationsabout ideas or experiences in logical order with a beginning, middle and end.

Grade 1 Indicator 4. Speak clearly and understandably.

Indicator 5. Deliver brief informational presentations that:  a. demonstrate an understanding of the topic; b. include and sort relevant information and details to develop topic.

Grade 2 Indicator 8. Deliver informal presentations that: b. demonstrate an understanding of the topic; c. include relevant facts and details to develop a topic.

Grade 3 Indicator 8. Deliver informal presentations that:  b. demonstrate an understanding of the topic.

Benchmark A Grade 4 – 7 Use effective listening strategies, summarize major ideas and draw logical inferences from presentations and visual media.

Grade 5 Indicator 1. Demonstrate active listening strategies.

Indicator 2. Interpret the main idea and draw conclusions from oral presentations and visual media.

Indicator 3. Identify the speaker’s purpose in presentations and visual media.  Indicator 9. Deliver formal and informal descriptive presentations recalling an event or personal experience that convey relevant information and descriptive details.

Benchmark B Grade 4 – 7 Explain a speaker’s point of view and use of persuasive techniques in presentations and visual media.

Grade 5 Indicator 1. Demonstrate active listening strategies.  Indicator 2. Interpret the main idea and draw conclusions from oral presentations and visual media.

Benchmark F Grade 4 – 7 Give presentations using a variety of delivery methods, visual materials and technology.

Grade 5 Indicator 9. Deliver formal and informal descriptive presentations recalling an event or personal experience that convey relevant information and descriptive details.

Benchmark E Grade 8 – 10 Give informational presentations tat present ideas in a logical sequence, include relevant facts and details from multiple sources and use a consistent organization structure.

Grade 8 Indicator 9. Deliver formal and informal descriptive presentations that convey relevant information and descriptive details.

Social Studies

Geography

Benchmark A Grade K – 2 Identify the location of the state of Ohio, the United States, the continents and oceans on maps, globes and other geographic representations.

Grade 2 Indicator 1. Read and interpret a variety of maps.

Indicator 3. Name and locate the continents and oceans.

Grade 3 Indicator 5. Identify the location of the equator, Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle, North Pole, South Pole, Prime Meridian, the tropics and the hemispheres on maps and globes.

Benchmark B Grade 3 – 5 Identify the physical and human characteristics of places and regions in North America.

Grade 5 Indicator 3. Describe and compare the landforms, climates, population, culture and economic characteristics of places and regions in North America.  Indicator 4. Explain how climate is influenced by: a. landforms; c. vegetation.  Indicator 5. Explain by identifying patterns on thematic maps, how physical and human characteristics can be used to define regions in North America.

Benchmark C Grade 6 – 8 Explain how the environment influences the way people live in different places and the consequences of modifying the environment.

Grade 5 Indicator 5. Describe ways human settlements and environmental factors and processes in different places and regions including influence activities: a. bodies of water; b. landforms; c. climates; d. vegetation; weathering; seismic activity.

Mathematics

Data Analysis and Probability

Benchmark A Grade K – 2 Pose questions and gather data about everyday situations and familiar objects.

Grade K Indicator 1. Gather and sort data in response to questions posed by teacher and students; e.g.; how many sisters and brothers, what color shoes.

Grade 1 Indicator 4. Read and interpret charts, picture graphs and bar graphs as sources of information to identify main ideas, draw conclusions, and make predictions.

Indicator 7. Answer questions about the number of objects represented in a picture graph, bar graph or table graph; e.g., category with the most, how many more in a category compared to another, how many altogether in two categories.

Grade 2 Indicator 2. Read, interpret and make comparisons and predictions from data represented in charts, line plots, picture graphs, and bar graphs.

Grade 3 Indicator 8. Identify the mode of a data set and describe the informationit gives about a data set.

Grade 4 Indicator 5. Propose and explain interpretations and predictions based on data displayed in tables, charts and graphs.

Grade 5 Indicator 3. Read and interpret increasingly complex displays of data, such as double bar graphs.

Grade 6 Indicator 6. Make logical inferences from statistical data.