How the World Works

An inquiry into the natural world and its laws; the interaction between the natural world (physical and biological) and human societies; how humans use their understanding of scientific principles; the impact of scientific and technological advances on society and on the environment.

Central Idea: Systems are shaped by interactions and relationships.

Lines of Inquiry:

✦ Connection between components of an ecosystem

✦ Consequences of balance and imbalance

✦ (student-created line of inquiry)

Goals:

Hoot

The island of the Blue Dolphins Theme

Unit Reflection

Eat or be eaten!

in this card game, we learned about food chains like a raccoon eats bugs and bugs eat logs.

In the experiment does air have weight we put two balloons on a yardstick and popped one and the one that was popped went up and the one still with air went down so now we know that air has weight.

This is a picture of my group's biosphere for the biosphere challenge that the whole 5th grade was doing.

Life Inside a Dome - Provocation Ecosystem Spaceship Earth.mp4

This is a picture of the worm activity where we learned about worms behavior and their importance on earth.

this is a picture of me doing the bean boozled game and I got a bad jelly bean.

we read the book, Hoot and we drew a picture of an owl

in this picture, we modeled an aquafer for our unit about water to show how you can get water from an aquifer.

we put celery in the colored water and we watched as the celery soaked up the water to show how celery drinks water.

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