Earth and Space Science

• Weather and Moon Phase

• Cloud formation

• Weather Instruments

• Moon phases

• Stars, Planets, and Moon

• Technological advances for space

• Stars

• Planets

• Moon Phases

• Earth’s orbit and tilt

• Light refraction

• Forecasting the Weather

• States of water

• Water cycle

• Weather instruments

• Weather maps

• Cloud types

• Weather and climate

Physical Science

• Light refraction

• Light and Sound

• Opaque, transparent, translucent

• Reflection and Refraction

• Strength and speed of sound vibration

• Communication device

• Force and Motion

• Balanced and unbalanced forces

• Gravitational force

• Simple machines

Life Science

• Role of Organisms

• Ecosystems

• Food chains/ webs

• Changes impacting ecosystems

• Scarcity, extinction, overabundance

Earth and Space Science

Learning Target: How do I evaluate and communicate information to demonstrate the water cycle?

In this activity, you will plan, illustrate and label a model to show multiple pathways water may take during the water cycle. Include the following terms: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, run off, transpiration, infiltration. Once the model has been completed, in your own words explain the water cycle. Answer these questions in your explanation:

• How do I explain how plants and animals contribute to the water cycle?

• How do I identify and explain the two sources of energy that drive the water cycle?

• How does the majority of water get in and out of the atmosphere?

Physical Science

Learning Target: How do I obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about how sound is produced and changed and how sound and/or light can be used to communicate?

Develop and a conceptual model (draw a diagram) to explain how sound can move from one end of the “telephone” to the other and then provide a written explanation for how energy is “moved” within the system. Using all of the evidence obtained from a variety of sources (e.g., investigations, readings, class discussions) develop a model to explain how sound travels.

To develp your model, draw and label the components (parts), interactions among components in the string telephone system (how the parts work together), and mechanisms in the model (how energy is used for sound to “move”). Then, write an explanation for the phenomena (why does the string telephone work?), using the model as supporting evidence for your explanation.

Life Science

Learning Target: How do you evaluate and communicate information about the roles of organisms an the flow of energy within an ecosystem?

Watch the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. What evidence supports that the movie is a realistic fiction? Create a testable question based on something that made you curious during the movie.

Questions to assist with the task:

• How would you explain producers, consumers, and decomposers?

• In this movie, how would you identify and explain the producers, consumers, and decomposers?

• What is realistic fiction?

• In the movie, why and how did Flint create the machine?

• How did the challenges of the machine improve and change the city?

• How did this impact the ecosystem?

• How would you illustrate and explain any new changes for the machine to make it more effective and efficient?

Learning Target: How do I learn new information as I read?

Choose a book from the list below. Before you begin reading, make a prediction about the book based on the title and illustration (picture). List three questions that you wonder or want to know more about after reading the book. Once you have written your prediction and your 3 questions, take a picture walk. A picture walk is when you view the pictures and discuss what is taking place on each page. Now, it is time to read the book. After you have finished reading, go back and look at your prediction and questions.

• Was your prediction correct?

• Did you answer your questions?

• Did you enjoy the book? Why? or Why not?

Earth and Space Science

• Could a Robot Make My Dinner? And other questions about Technology

• Could I sit on a CLoud? And other questions about Science

• Dwarf Planets: Pluto, Charon, Ceres and Eris

• El agua: Arriba, abajo y en todos lados (Water: Up, Down and All Around)

• Exploring Deserts: A Benjamin Blog and His Inquisitive Dog Investigation

• Exploring Mountains: A Benjamin Blog and His Inquisitive Dog Investigation

• Exploring Rain Forests: A Benjamin Blog and His Inquisitive Dog Investigation

• Eye of the Storm: A Book About Hurricanes

• Light and Dark

• My First Guide to Robots

• Sources of Light

Physical Science

• All About Forces

• All About Light

• All About Sound

• Building vehicles that Roll

• Cell Phone Safety

• Win that Sprint: Forces in Sport

• Levers

• Light and Dark

• Light: Shadows, Mirrors, and Rainbows

• Llantas y rayos: Un libro sobre ruedas y ejes ( Tires, Spokes, and Sprockets: A Book About Wheels and Axles)

• Pull, Light, and Lower: A Book About Pulleys

• Pulleys

• Reflecting Light

• Ride that Roller Coaster!: Forces at an Amusement Park

• Sound: Loud, Soft, High and Low

• Sources of Light

• The Printing Press

• Television

• Wedges

• Wheels and Axles

Life Science

• Animal Hibernation

• Animal Migration

• Composting: Nature's Recyclers

• Coral Reefs: Colorful Underwater Habitats

• Desert Food Chain

• Desert: Thirsty Wonderlands

• Experiments with Plants

• From Seed to Daisy: Following the Life Cycle

• From Seed to Pine Tree: Following the Life Cycle

• Grassland Food Chains

• Grubs, bugs, and Worms: Invertebrates of the Underground

• Ocean Food Chains

• Oceanos: Mundo submarinos (Oceans: Underwater Worlds)

• Rain Forest Food Chains

• River Food Chains

• Roots, Bulbs, and Bacteria: Growth of the Underground

• What Eats What in a Rain Forest Food Chain

• What Eats What in a Desert Food Chain

• What Eats What in a Forest Food Chain

• Who Grows Up in the Ocean? A Book About Ocean Animals and Their Offspring

Extra Readings

• Erosion: The Weather Report Series by Virginia Castleman

• Next Time You See a Spiderweb by Emily Morgan

• Grand Canyon: A Trail Through Time by Linda Vieira

• Papa’s Mechanical Fish by Candace Fleming

• Pancakes, Pancakes! by Eric Carle

• Cells Are Us by Fran Balkwill

• The Fungus that Ate My School by Arthur Dorros

• Solids, Liquids, and Gases: My World of Science by Angela Royston

• Grand Canyon by Jason Chin

• It’s a Fungus Among Us by Carla Billups and Dawn Cusick