Week 3: April 20-24
Daily Learning
Weekly Learning
Try to complete each item below by the end of the week. (The list is alphabetical. You can work on them in any order.)
Motor Skills
Three activities are offered weekly. Click HERE to get started!
Science
Learning Goal: How Seeds Travel
I can show how animals move seeds and pollinate plants.
Estimated Time for the Week:
20-30 minutes
Materials:
Electronic device, paper/journal, pencil
Learn & Practice:
For the Google Slides to click-through the below directions, click here!
- Generation Genius Pollination and Seed Dispersion
- Practice
- Do you think animals around your house help to plant trees or other plants without knowing it?
- What kinds of seeds might they collect on their fur?
- Example: Dogs
- Research: Squirrels
- Think about specific animals such as an ant, hummingbird, butterfly, bee, and squirrel.
- What specific traits do these animals have that would help with dispersing seeds and pollinating flowers?
- Choose 1-2 animals to draw and write sentences explaining how they move seeds and pollinate flowers.
- Reflect
- What did you know about dispersing seeds and pollinating flowers before today’s lesson?
- Share your answer in a journal, video, or on a post-it note.
Plan for next week: If you are able to...get 1 large white or light-color sock for next week’s lesson!
Social Emotional Learning
Three activities are offered weekly. Click HERE to get started!
Social Studies
Learning Goal:
I can describe how setting goals and creating a budget pays for things people want and need.
Estimated Time for The Week:
20 minutes
Materials: electronic device, paper, pencil
Learn & Practice:
For the Google Slides to click-through the below directions, click here!
- Practice:
- Check out this Brainpop, Jr. video about Saving and Spending Money with Annie and Moby. (Parents, you may have to create a parent account to view this video.)
- A budget is a tool to help you organize and keep track of how your money is used.
- Create a list showing your needs and wants.
- Look over your list and prioritize, (put in order) what is most important to what is least important.
- PebbleGo Research: Click the link Saving Money
- Username: engaged Password: learning
- Challenge:
- Design a chart to document how you will save money for your special expense.
- Ideas to consider..
- What am I saving for?
- How will I make this money?
- How will I save it?
- How long will it take me?
- How much do I need to save daily/weekly?
- Together, with your parent discuss special expenses in the future such as vacation, first car, college tuition. (If an 8 year old saves a dollar a week, he/she will have over $3,000 by the age of 16. This could be put toward a first car!)
- Reflection
- Are you currently earning/saving money? If so, how?
- Why is it important to spend money on needs before wants?
- When purchasing an item, do you think it is helpful to check multiple stores before buying something?
- Share your answers in a journal, video, or on a post-it note.
STEM
Learning Goal:
I can use only one piece of paper to construct the longest chain possible.
Estimated Time for The Week:
20-30 minutes
Type of Lesson:
Engineering and Math
Materials:
- 3 pieces of copy paper
- Scissors
- Tape or glue
- Ruler or tape measure
Learn & Practice:
- Before you cut your paper, decide if you are going to cut your paper horizontally or vertically. Also, decide how wide you want your strips of paper to be.
- Using a pencil and a straight-edge, mark your lines that you want to cut on one piece of paper.
- Cut your paper from edge to edge.
- Take a strip of paper and glue or tape it to form a circle. This will become your chain link.
- Take another strip of paper, slide it through the first circle and glue or tape to form the next circle (link).
- Repeat with all remaining strips of paper to construct your chain.
- Once your chain is complete, use your ruler or tape measure to measure the length of your paper chain. Record the length of your first chain to compare to the next two chains.
- Repeat steps 2-7 to create two more paper chains with the remaining pieces of paper.
- How can you change the way you cut your paper to create a longer chain?
- What would you change?
- How do the links change?
- Compare the lengths of the three paper chains.
- Which was the longest?
- Why do you think it was longer than the other two chains?
- How big were the links in your chain?
- How long were the strips of paper?
- How wide were the strips of paper?
- Is there anything else besides the length or width of the strips that you could change to make your chain longer?
FUN FACT: The longest paper chain ever recorded was 2,556 feet and 5.5 inches long! It took just less than 12 hours to complete!
Optional Extension Activity: Challenge a member of your family to a contest to see who can create the longest chain.
Specials & More
Art
Computer Science
Music
P.E. & Health
