'Tis the Season for Science

What is an interactive webinar series?

An interactive webinar series consists of three weekly consecutive sessions in one month. Each live session is a 30-minute lesson, taught by a team of professional educators, and broadcast to multiple classes at the same time via Zoom Webinar. Students will interact with the educators through polls, chat box, and hands-on activities. Teachers will have accesss to optional extension activities for students to do in between each webinar. These options are great for classes who may meet asynchronously because links of the recordings will be shared.

Extension activities for students

Teachers can find optional extension activities that are designed to be self-directed by the students or class group work, and may be built upon by the teacher if they desire. Activities range from 5-30 minutes long. Students | Estudiantes

NGSS connections

This unit supports the following standards:

Crosscutting Concepts

• Structure and Function

• Patterns

Related Performance Expectation

• K-LS1-1. Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

• 3-LS2-1.Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.

• 3-LS4-3. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

• 4-LS1-1. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

• 5-ESS3-1. Human activities in agriculture, industry, and everyday life have had major effects on the land, vegetation, streams, ocean, air, and even outer space. But individuals and communities are doing things to help protect Earth’s resources and environments.

ELA / Literacy Common Core Connections

This unit’s supporting lessons can augment and provide a real life context for these ELA standards.

Text Types and Purposes (grades 3-5):

• • 1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.

  • 3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique

Research to build and Present Knowledge (grades 3-5):

• • 7. Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.

  • 8. Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

Connection & technology information

Teachers who apply will receive an email with specific instructions for connecting with Academy educators on our Zoom Webinar. If you have questions or need us to resend the email, please contact us at therockprogram@calacademy.org