Science will be on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays for one hour.
Students will work in groups for their science explorations and activities. Foss kits are used.
Evaluation: For each activity or exploration, the student will complete their own data sheet and write their own explanations using the needed vocabulary words. When creating models, students evaluation will be based on completing all requirements including greatness and accuracy.
Students read information from their textbooks and the Super Science magazine.
1-2 mini research projects and 1 major research project (Archaeology) will be completed.
Use chrome books to access / use science sites
Fall Science Focus: land forms, weathering / erosion, rocks, fossils
Winter Science Focus: magnets, electricity, waves - light, sound
Spring Science Focus: archaeology, leaf classification, circulatory system (plant), brain, heart, respiratory system, life cycle.
For the absent student: Please know you will need to make up any project, or experiment on your own time after school in order to receive a grade. Please remember to follow the CAM policy for late work. Any work turned in after these timelines will be considered late and will affect your grade. Please make arrangements with your teacher to stay after school to make up any science work if you cannot do it at home.
This months science magazine.
Guidelines for collection project
Sample of a collection
Sample of the 1 paragraph summery
Land form vocabulary cutout
Car trip of Disasters in Washington State
Landforms, Hey! Video
Exploring Landforms
Landforms slideshow
Land form Project instructions
Making a contour map
Foss: Mt. St. Helens
Rapid land form changes: Volcano Paricutin', Mexico
Rapid land form changes: Volcano Paricutin', Mexico
Rapid landform changes: A Day in Pompeii, animated
Video: 3 Types of Rocks
video: Where do rocks come from?
Ology - paleontology activities
Rapid land form changes: Yosemite flooding 1998
Canyon Lake flood of 2002
Canyon Lake flood of 2002
Canyon Lake flood of 2002
Big Thompson Flood of 1976
parallel and series
How to make an electric motor
Bill Nye Magnetism
How to make an ancient Baghdad battery
How to make an ancient Baghdad battery
How to make an ancient Baghdad battery
Transmition of Sound (Intro to sound waves)
Types of waves
Light travels in a straight line
How does light travel? Listen to the introduction, then do all activities
Choose one project to do.
Watch the video.
How to make a worm compost
Food chain song
Food chain examples
Food chain song
digestive system poster directions
Leaf Classification instructions
model
Foss: Brain and nervous system videos
Handout: Brain and Nervous System
Brain vocabulary handout
Brain Song
Archaeology for kids- National Park Service
Archaeologists / paleontologists
Archaeology sites from around the world, by Mrs. Pfeifer
Oology: Archaeology