'Tis the Season for Science

Grades 3-5: Interactive webinar series

Overview

Ever wonder what happens when the air turns cold? It's not just humans that bundle up and look for warmth. Explore how nature shifts from fall to winter, how some animals migrate and others have adapted to withstand the cold.


  • Webinar 1: As the Seasons Change

  • Webinar 2: On the Move

  • Webinar 3: Fit for Cold

Schedule: December 1-17, 2020

Pick the grade level and language that works for your class.

  • 3rd Grade, in English Only: Tuesdays at 11 am PT (Dec. 1, 8, and 15)

  • 4th & 5th Grade, in English Only: Tuesdays at 10 am PT (Dec. 1 , 8, and 15)

  • 3rd Grade, Bilingual in Spanish & English: Thursdays at 11 am PT (Dec. 3, 10, and 17)

  • 4th & 5th Grade, Bilingual in Spanish & English: Thursdays at 10 am PT (Dec. 3, 10, and 17)

Registration is now closed, but don't fret! We'll post the recordings here within 48 hours of each session.

What is an interactive webinar series?

An interactive livestream 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 YouTube. Students will interact with the educators through hands-on activities. Teachers will have access to optional extension activities for students to do in between each session. 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

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Distance Learning is open to all K-8 students wherever they are set-up to engage in remote learning this fall—be that in a classroom, at home, in a learning pod, or at a community learning hub. Interested in other livestreams for your class this year? Visit the Distance Learning website.