Science

Students studied the transfer of energy through different systems. The built series and parallel circuits to test which was better for different tasks. They used electromagnets to make simple telegraph machines and send messages. For their final project they looked at how energy is transferred in a collision and used that knowledge to design and test a roller coaster cart that would protect Mouse from a collision at the end. Students identify where potential energy changed to kinetic energy along the coaster and explain how their design protects Mouse from the energy being transferred during the collision with the stop bar.

Math:

Multiplicative Comparison & Measurement:

• What is the difference between a multiplicative comparison problem and an additive comparison problem?

• What strategies can I use to solve multiplicative comparison problems and how are these strategies related?

• How do I compare different units of measurement?

• How do I convert one unit of measure to a different unit of measure?

• How do I make sense of data presented in a line plot?

• How do I use a line plot to represent data?

• What strategies can I use to solve multi-step problems?

Whole Number Multiplication & Division:

• How can a pattern be used to generate a rule to predict the values or features of future terms in a pattern sequence?

• What strategies can be used to multiply multi-digit quantities?

• What strategies can be used to divide multi-digit quantities?

• What strategies can be used to solve multi-step problems?

Angles & Angle Measurement:

• Why is precise language necessary to describe geometric parts?

• How can angles be measured?

• How can missing angle measures be determined?

• How can an equation be used to represent angle measurements?

Properties of Two Dimensional Shapes:

• How can attributes of shapes be used to classify them?

• How can you determine if a figure is symmetrical?

• How can properties and attributes of shapes be used to solve problems?