2023-2024

Week of January 1-5.

Wednesday:  Answer Response Sheet 5. Water cycle focus question. Water planet discussion, globe activity, inventory water on Earth, discuss fresh water, and demonstrate water distribution. 

Thursday: Water-cycle activity. Notebook sheet 31. Discuss water cycle and refine. Complete sheet. Summarize water cycle.

Friday: Read "The Water Cycle." Watch the Water Cycle and do online water-cycle activity.  Answer focus question 5-3. Read "Severe Weather". Discuss the reading. 

Week of December 18-22.

Monday: Observe condensation chamber and answer questions. Create and observe ice and water system. Add salt to make ice even colder. Make observations. 

Tuesday: Vocabulary and Answer focus question. Preview " Condensation." Answer three questions about an image they find interesting and write then answers in their notebook. Read "Condensation" independently. Reread article. Share notebook entries. 

Wednesday: Review Condensation. Focus question: How does water vapor get into the air? How can we investigate this? Create heating water demonstration. Review vocabulary and clean up Notebooks.

Thursday: Coding Challenges: 1) Move Forward 30cm. 2) Move Forward and Backward 30cm. 3) 90º turn 4) Set heading to 180º and turn to 270º (start facing north) 5) Move in a 30 cm square  6) Show a change in speed. 7) Make a hexagon with 3 blocks. Count Loop

Friday: Christmas Break

Week of December 11-15.

Monday: Review vocabulary. Answer focus question. Read "Solar Technology"  Discuss reading. Start iCheck 4 review. 

Tuesday: Review Investigation 3&4, Kahoot 

Wednesday: I check 3&4.

Thursday: Do condensation experiment. Write focus question. Introduce water vapor and discuss where condensation occurs. Create condensation chamber.

Friday: Coding Challenges: 1) Move Forward 30cm. 2) Move Forward and Backward 30cm. 3) 90º turn 4) Set heading to 180º and turn to 270º (start facing north) 5) Move in a 30 cm square  6) Show a change in speed. 7) Make a hexagon with 3 blocks. Count Loop

Week of December 4-8. 

Week of November 29- December 3.

Monday: Do hot water experiment. FIll in data sheet. Water-heater conference meetings. Fill out table and calculate the average.Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question.

Tuesday: Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question. Read "Solar Technology"  Discuss reading. Start iCheck 4 review. 

Friday: Coding Challenges: 1) Move Forward 30cm. 2) Move Forward and Backward 30cm. 3) 90º turn 4) Set heading to 180º and turn to 270º (start facing north) 5) Move in a 30 cm square  6) Show a change in speed. 7) Make a hexagon with 3 blocks. Count Loop

Week of November 27-December 1. 

Monday: Introduce fluid. Cold water challenge. Discuss challenge. Demonstrate relative density. Focus question: What happens when a volume of fluid is warmed at the bottom? Introduce hot-water question. Notebook sheet 20 and then 21. 

Tuesday: Answer focus question. Share answers Do Response sheet 22. Read "Wind and Convection" Use Reading comprehension strategy. Focus on diagrams. 

Wednesday: Read "Wind and Convection" Use Reading comprehension strategy. Focus on diagrams. Read Wind Power. Redo Response sheet if necessary. 

Thursday: Create an experiment to determine the best hot water heater. Conduct Experiment.

Friday: Coding Challenges: 1) Move Forward 30cm. 2) Move Forward and Backward 30cm. 3) 90º turn 4) Set heading to 180º and turn to 270º (start facing north) 5) Move in a 30 cm square  6) Show a change in speed. 7) Make a hexagon with 3 blocks. Count Loop

Week of November 20-24.

Monday: Review conduction, Do virtual investigation "Aluminum and Steel Strips in Water". Write Focus question in Journals, "How does energy transfer to the air. Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Tuesday: Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Week of November 13-17.

Monday: Introduce Solar energy and earth materials. Focus Question: "What happens to earth materials when they are exposed to sunlight." Design Experiment together. Write procedure.

Tuesday: Conduct experiment an Record data

Wednesday: Graph and analyze data. Discuss graphs. Introduce radiation and energy transfer, Solar energy exposure, and uneven heating.

Thursday:  Assess Graphs. Review Vocabulary, Answer Focus Question, Assess graphs and Focus questions, Take 2 column notes Questions and Responses. Read "Uneven Heating." View online activities.

Friday: Coding Challenges

Week of November 6-10. 

Monday and Tuesday: Write a brief description of the current weather. Share reports. Discuss forecasting. Write focus question " How do meteorologists measure and record weather variables? Introduce local weather report. Discuss variables in the local report. Introduce wireless weather station.

Wednesday: Introduce Weather Data sheet. Answer focus question. Read "Weather Instruments" pages 92 -94

Thursday: Review Investigation 3 about the atmosphere and weather. All about Meteorology Video Chapters 2,3,4,6,7,8,9, and 14.

Friday: Scienceflix - Atmosphere and Weather.

Week of October 30- November 3.

Friday: Program Human Bots

Week of October 23-27.

Monday: Computer Science. Timed Runs. Who is the best Driver?

Tuesday: Write 3 observations and 3 questions about air and syringes. Write (Compress -forcing something into a smaller area), and (pressure - push of air) into notebook index.

Wednesday: Create a model to explain what you have learned about air. Discuss matter and mass. Watch videos on air mass. Read and take notes from "What is air?"

Thursday: Discuss the Atmosphere, Write the focus question. "What is Earth's atmosphere?" Watch atmosphere video. Read "Earth's Atmosphere" pages 85 - 91. Take notes on each layer. 

Friday: No School

Week of October 16-20.

Monday: Answer focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration. Vocabulary in glossary.

Tuesday: Read "Stargazing" and discuss the reading. Watch all about Stars video.

Wednesday: Review for Test

Thursday: Quizzizz over Earth and Sun INV 1&2.

Friday: Test

Week of October 9-13

Monday: Do Response Sheet 2. Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations. Discuss focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration.

Tuesday: Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations.

Wednesday: Answer focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration. Vocabulary in glossary.

Thursday: Read "Stargazing" and discuss the reading. Watch all about Stars video.

Friday: Fire Safety. Make a Fire Safety Exit Plan with meeting place.

Week of October 2-6

Monday and Tuesday: Introduce the solar system cards challenge. Sort cards by pictures. Discuss categories. Review Orbit. Sort planets by distance from the sun. Then sort other cards using planets. Fill out notebook sheet 9, Solar System Data, Group planets by composition. Discuss composition of planets. Introduce terrestrial planets and gas giant planets, Pluto, Eris, and Halley’s comet . Review vocabulary.

Wednesday and Thursday: Read “Exploring the Solar System.” Answer focus question. Explain orbit. Read “Why Doesn’t Earth Fly Off into Space?”. 

Friday: Finish video and the  Computer Science

Week of September 25-29.

Monday: Update moon calendar. Focus Question, Introduce and construct Earth/Moon models. Introduce Sun model. Answer the focus question.

Tuesday: Read "Apollo 11 Space Mission", Discuss the reading. Read "How did the Earth's Moon Form?" Discuss the reading. Write a reflection about what you learned from the reading in your notebook.

Friday: Computer Science

Week of September 18-22.

Monday: Update moon calendar. Focus Question, Introduce and construct Earth/Moon models. Introduce Sun model. Answer the focus question.

Tuesday: Read "Apollo 11 Space Mission", Discuss the reading. Read "How did the Earth's Moon Form?" Discuss the reading. Write a reflection about what you learned from the reading in your notebook.

Friday: Computer Science

Week of September 11-15.

Monday: Read "Sunrise and Sunset". Answer Focus Question, 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1. '

Tuesday: Fill out study guide and look at Thinklink.

Wednesday: Observe the daytime moon, Go outdoors to view daytime moon. What did it look like? Moon calendar. Focus question. HOMEWORK-Night-Sky Log.

Thursday: Answer Focus question- Discuss Moon observations. Record moon data and vocabulary. Read "The Night Sky" and use 3-2-1 comprehension stategy. Discuss Reading. Study diagram. Read "Looking through Telescopes" Use summarizing chart as comprehension strategy. Discuss Reading.

Friday: Computer Science

Week of September 4-8

Tuesday: 1.2.23 Response sheet: Inv. 1. 1.2.25 Share Notebook entries.

Wednesday and Thursday: Start at 1.3.13 -1.3.22 Do "Reading in Science Resources" pages 137-138, Read "Sunrise and Sunset". Answer Focus Question, 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Wednesday. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Friday. 

Friday: Computer Science.

Week of August 28- September 1

Monday: Answer and discuss Focus Question. 1.2.1 Review shadow positions, 

Tuesday: 1.2.2 Focus question, Step 4 discuss using sun tracker. Learn how to use a compass. Practice using a compass. Practice orienting compass. 1.2.10 Go outside and mark the tip of the Golf tee's shadow.

Wednesday: 1.2.13 Identify patterns, 1.2.14 Reproduce shadows with flashlights. 1.2.16 Replicate trackings. Vocabulary, Answer the focus question. 1.2.20-21 Read Changing Shadows in FOSS science resources. Use comprehension strategy.

Thursday: 1.2.23 Response sheet: Inv. 1. 1.2.25 Share Notebook entries.

Friday: Computer Science Friday.

Week of August 21-25.

Wednesday:  Introduce Myself and go over Fire, Tornado and other various bathroom, drink. Name Tent and padlock practice (locker organization) and money and valuable in lockers.

Thursday: Create Notebooks, and discuss Science Expectations. Introduce Computers and FOSSweb login procedures.

Friday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 1-10. Shadows: Focus question, Shadow observations, Outdoor Safety rules, Trace shadows throughout the day.

2022-2023

Week of May 15-19.

Monday: Read "The Story of Maple Syrup" on pages 43-47. Add to Glossary "Handout  page."  Watch "Plant Structure and Growth" Video.

Tuesday: Answer Focus Question 3.1. Introduce the human circulatory system.

Wednesday: Watch Heart Video and Read "The Human Circulatory System" on pages 48-53.

Thursday and Friday: Robotics Friday

Week of May 1-5.

Monday: Monitor wheat growth. Robotics

Tuesday: Ag Day

Wednesday: Follow Part 1 of investigation 3: Plant vascular systems. on Pages 211-213. Read "Leaf Classification" on pages 34 and 35., Set up wheat seed chambers.

Thursday: Read " Plant Vascular Systems" on pages 36-42. View Plant Vascular System online activity. 

Friday: Zoo Trip

Week of April 24-28.

Monday: Introduce wheat seed experiment and what wheat would need to grow. Steps 1-5 on Pages 165 and 166. Plant wheat seeds.

Tuesday: Read Producers and Fill out "anticipation Guide on page 17.

Wednesday: Observe wheat experiment. Steps 10 and 11 on page 169.Follow Pages 177-180. Read "Getting Nutrients" Pages 27-31.

Wednesday: Watch Video on the Food Chain. Read "The Human Digestive System". Fill out Graphic organizer.

Thursday: Watch Digestive and Excretory Systems video. Add vocabulary to the glossary. Answer Focus Question 2.3.

Friday: Observe wheat experiment. Steps 10 and 11 on page 169. Watch rest of Digestive and Excretory Systems video. Add vocabulary to the glossary. Answer Focus Question 2.3.

Week of April 17-21.

Monday: Do yeast nutrition cookie experiment.

Tuesday and Wednesday: Do yeast nutrition sugar and flour experiment. Read pages 21-22 and do Graphic organizer on Journal page 14.

Thursday: Discuss yeast experiments, Fill in vocabulary for yeast experiment, Answer Focus Question 2-1.

Friday: Robotics Friday

Week of April  10-14.

Monday: Response sheet 1.3. Read "Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary". Watch "Web of Life, Life in the Sea."

Tuesday: Monday: Discuss Decomposers and Create redworm habitat.

Wednesday: Discuss Decomposers and Create redworm habitat. Focus Question 1-4

Thursday: Read pages 18-20, Do Cause-effect organizer. Review for Icheck 1. Kahoot

Friday: Icheck 1 test.

Week of April 3-7.

Monday: Use woods ecosystem cards to create a food chain and a food web. Read "The Biosphere" Vocabulary, Focus Question.

Tuesday: Create a Kelp Forest Food Web. 

Wednesday: Create a Kelp Forest Food Web. Draw food web. Focus Question 1.3

Thursday:  No Science - ISASP Science test.

Friday: Computer Science 

Week of March 27-31.

Monday: Review for science

Tuesday: Test over Saturated Solutions. 

Wednesday: Read "Introductions to Systems" and create concept definition map.

Thursday: Do Focus Question Watch "Physical Systems" chapters 1-5. Discuss video. Read "Is Earth a system? and do comprehension strategy. Look at woods food-web cards. Study organisms.

Friday: Computer Science or ISASP Practice test.

Week of March 20-24.

Monday: Discuss Epsom Salts experiment and Answer Focus Question and Response Sheet 4.

Tuesday: Plan Mystery Chemical investigation. 

Wednesday: Start Mystery Chemical investigation.

Thursday: Finish Mystery Chemical investigation. Try to identify mystery chemical based on evidence.

Friday: Observe Evaporated solutions. Read "A sweet solution." and "Sour Power" 

Week of March 6th-10th.

Monday: Start Salt Saturation Investigation on page 258.

Tuesday: Finish salt solution experiment. Answer focus question. Read "The Bends" and Fill out Graphic organizer.

Wednesday: Find out how much epsom salt it takes to saturate a 50 ml of water.

Thursday: Finish Epsom salt experiment and Answer Response Sheet 4.

Friday: Robotics building and engineering

Week of February 27-March 3rd.

Monday: Introduce density. Layering Activity. Answer Focus question.

Tuesday: Watch "Why are Oceans Salty" video. Read "Carbon Dioxide in the Air". Review for I-check.

Wednesday: Icheck 3 test.

Thursday: No School

Friday: Friday: Robotics - Tower challenge engineering

Week of February 21-25.

Monday: Start Salt Saturation Investigation on page 258.

Tuesday: View online activities.  Read "The Air" and "Famous Scientists".

Wednesday: Snow Day

Thursday: Snow Day

Friday: No School

Week of February 13-17.

Monday: Robotics - Finish Maze Challenge - Start Tower challenge engineering

Tuesday: Salt concentration investigation. Answer Vocabulary and Focus question. Response Sheet - Investigation 3. Read "Concentrated Solutions" and fill in concept map.

Wednesday: Read "The Air". Create Circle map. View online activities. Read "The Air" and "Famous Scientists".

Thursday: Watch "Why are Oceans Salty" video. Read "Carbon Dioxide in the Air". Review for I-check.

Friday: Robotics - Tower challenge engineering

Week of February 6-10.

Monday: Soft drink experiment. Notebook sheet 9, Focus question. Introduce concentration.Answer focus question.

Tuesday: Read "Solutions Up Close" using reading comprehension strategy. Online activity "Tutorial: Conservation of Mass"

Wednesday and Thursday: Review Concentration. Focus question. Salt concentration investigation. Answer Vocabulary and Focus question. Response Sheet - Investigation 3. Read "Concentrated Solutions" and fill in concept map.

Friday: Robotics - Finish Maze Challenge - Start Tower challenge engineering ................................Resources found on Google Classroom.

Week of January 30- February 3.

Monday: Robotics - Finish Maze Challenge

Tuesday: Robotics - Tower challenge engineering

Wednesday: "Read Solid to Liquids" and "Liquids to Gases" Create phase change diagram with arrows.

Thursday: Response Sheet 2

Friday: Focus Question dissolving vs melting. Module 2 test.

Week of January 23-27

Monday: Collaborate with black boxes. Black box conferences with consensus. How could you improve models?

Tuesday: Build black boxes. Answer focus question. Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question.

Wednesday: Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question. view on line activity- Black box.

Thursday: Demonstrate drought stopper. Focus Question. Draw your model of the drought stopper. Reveal system. Answer focus question. Assess.

Friday: Robotics: Coding for the Maze

Week of January 16-20.

Monday: Robotics: Coding for the Maze

Tuesday: Watch video on "Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures." View online activities. Read "Science Practices" and "Engineering Practices". Fill in vocabulary and glossary. Answer Focus Question 1.3 .

Wednesday: Mixtures and Solutions Investigation 1 Test

Thursday: Black box challenge. Draw the boxes contents. Create black box models.

Friday: Robotics: Coding for the Maze

Week of January 9-13.

Monday: Observe evaporation. Introduce crystal. Support or refute claim. Read Mixtures. Use reading strategies.

Tuesday: Read Mixtures.

Wednesday: Review vocabulary. Response Sheet 1

Thursday and Friday: Separating a dry mixture. Review plan to separate a dry mixture. Get materials and separate. Performance Assessment. Clean up and then answer focus question.Read taking mixtures apart. Watch video on "Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures." View online activities. Read "Science Practices" and "Engineering Practices". Fill in vocabulary and glossary.

Friday: Robotics: Coding for the Maze

Week of January 2-6

Monday: Inservice

Tuesday: Introduce Chemical safety in the classroom. All students are required to use goggles or safety glasses during this module. Organize groups introduce chemicals.

Wednesday: Observe Gravel, Powder, and Salt and record their properties in Part 1 of sheet. Preview part 2, discuss and then add 50 mL of water to each cup. Define mixture. Focus Question. Separate mixtures: Screen, filter paper. Introduce solution. 

Thursday: Review mixture and solutions. Weigh 50 ml of water. Focus question. Figure out what happens to the water. Develop a model to explain what happens to the water. Answer focus question. Evaporate salt solution.

Friday: Observe evaporation. Introduce crystal. Review vocabulary. Support or refute claim. Read Mixtures. Use reading strategies.

Week of December 19-23.

Monday:  Describe regional conditions. Read "Earth's Climates". Use FOSSweb Climate regions map. Answer the Focus question. Read Global Climate Change." Watch climate change video. Review investigation 5. Start Module review.

Tuesday: Module review

Wednesday: Final test.

Thursday: Computer Science: Coding Maze.

Week of December 12-16.

Monday: Vocabulary and Answer focus question. Preview " Condensation." Answer three questions about an image they find interesting and write then answers in their notebook. Read "Condensation" independently. Reread article. Share notebook entries. 

Tuesday: Review Condensation. Focus question: How does water vapor get into the air? How can we investigate this? Create heating water demonstration. Review vocabulary and clean up Notebooks.

Wednesday:  Answer Response Sheet 5. Water cycle focus question. Water planet discussion, globe activity, inventory water on Earth, discuss fresh water, and demonstrate water distribution. 

Thursday: Water-cycle activity. Notebook sheet 31. Discuss water cycle and refine. Complete sheet. Summarize water cycle.

Friday: Read "The Water Cycle." Watch the Water Cycle and do online water-cycle activity.  Answer focus question 5-3. Read "Severe Weather". Discuss the reading. 

Week of December 5-9. 

Monday: Review Investigation 4, Kahoot 

Tuesday: I check 4.

Wednesday: Do condensation experiment. Write focus question. Introduce water vapor and discuss where condensation occurs. Create condensation chamber.

Thursday: Observe condensation chamber and answer questions. Create and observe ice and water system. Add salt to make ice even colder. Make observations. Answer focus question.

Friday: Coding Challenges: 1) Move Forward 30cm. 2) Move Forward and Backward 30cm.   3) 90º turn            4) Set heading to 180º and turn to 270º (start facing north) 5) Move in a 30 cm square    6) Show a change in speed. 7) Make a hexagon with 3 blocks. Count Loop.  Start new maze.

Week of November 28-Dec 2

Monday: Do hot water experiment. FIll in data sheet. Water-heater conference meetings. Fill out table and calculate the average.Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question.

Tuesday: Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question. Read "Solar Technology"  Discuss reading. Start iCheck 4 review. 

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Friday: Coding Challenges: 1) Move Forward 30cm. 2) Move Forward and Backward 30cm.                                      3) 90º turn 4) Set heading to 180º and turn to 270º (start facing north) 5) Move in a 30 cm square    6) Show a change in speed. 7) Make a hexagon with 3 blocks. Count Loop

Week of November 21-25.

Monday: Answer focus question. Share answers Do Response sheet 22. Read "Wind and Convection" Use Reading comprehension strategy. Focus on diagrams. 

Tuesday: Read "Wind and Convection" Use Reading comprehension strategy. Focus on diagrams. Read Wind Power. Redo Response sheet if necessary. 

Wednesday: Create an experiment to determine the best hot water heater.

Thursday and Friday: Thankgiving Break

Week of November 14-18.

Monday: Conduction: Review Solar Energy, Heat transfer by contact, Do energy transfer challenge: Option 2. Watch "Particles in Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Watch "Energy Transfer: Conduction"

Tuesday: Review conduction, Do virtual investigation "Aluminum and Steel Strips in Water". Write Focus question in Journals, "How does energy transfer to the air. Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Wednesday: Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Thursday: Introduce fluid. Cold water challenge. Discuss challenge. Demonstrate relative density. Focus question: What happens when a volume of fluid is warmed at the bottom? Introduce hot-water question. Notebook sheet 20 and then 21. 

Friday: Coding Challenges: 1) Move Forward 30cm. 2) Move Forward and Backward 30cm.                                      3) 90º turn 4) Set heading to 180º and turn to 270º (start facing north) 5) Move in a 30 cm square    6) Show a change in speed. 7) Make a hexagon with 3 blocks. Count Loop

Week of November 7-11.

Monday: Introduce Solar energy and earth materials. Focus Question: "What happens to earth materials when they are exposed to sunlight." Design Experiment together. Write procedure.

Tuesday: Conduct experiment an Record data

Wednesday: Graph and analyze data. Discuss graphs. Introduce radiation and energy transfer, Solar energy exposure, and uneven heating.

Thursday:  Assess Graphs. Review Vocabulary, Answer Focus Question, Assess graphs and Focus questions, Take 2 column notes Questions and Responses. Read "Uneven Heating." View online activities.

Friday: Coding Challenges

Week of October 31 -November 4.

Monday: Go over Study guide for Investigation 3 

Tuesday: Play Kahoot review

Wednesday: Investigation 3 - I check 

Thurs

Friday: No School

Week of October 24-28.

Monday and Tuesday: Write a brief description of the current weather. Share reports. Discuss forecasting. Write focus question " How do meteorologists measure and record weather variables? Introduce local weather report. Discuss variables in the local report. Introduce wireless weather station.

Wednesday: Introduce Weather Data sheet. Answer focus question. Read "Weather Instruments" pages 92 -94

Thursday: Review Investigation 3 about the atmosphere and weather. All about Meteorology Video Chapters 2,3,4,6,7,8,9, and 14.

Friday: Program Human Bots

Week of October 17-21.

Monday: Write 3 observations and 3 questions about air and syringes. Write (Compress -forcing something into a smaller area), and (pressure - push of air) into notebook index.

Tuesday: Create a model to explain what you have learned about air. Discuss matter and mass. Watch videos on air mass. Read and take notes from "What is air?"

Wednesday: Discuss the Atmosphere, Write the focus question. "What is Earth's atmosphere?" Watch atmosphere video. Read "Earth's Atmosphere" pages 85 - 91. Take notes on each layer. 

Thursday: When finished answer the five atmosphere questions. Discuss the five questions.

Friday: Program 

Week of October 10-14.

Monday: Do Response Sheet 2. Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations. Discuss focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration.

Tuesday: Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations.

Wednesday: Answer focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration. Vocabulary in glossary.

Thursday: Read "Stargazing" and discuss the reading. Watch all about Stars video.

Friday: Fire Safety. Make a Fire Safety Exit Plan with meeting place.

Week of October 3-7.

Monday and Tuesday: Introduce the solar system cards challenge. Sort cards by pictures. Discuss categories. Review Orbit. Sort planets by distance from the sun. Then sort other cards using planets. Fill out notebook sheet 9, Solar System Data, Group planets by composition. Discuss composition of planets. Introduce terrestrial planets and gas giant planets, Pluto, Eris, and Halley’s comet . Review vocabulary.

Wednesday and Thursday: Read “Exploring the Solar System.” Answer focus question. Explain orbit. Read “Why Doesn’t Earth Fly Off into Space?”. 

Friday: Finish video and the  Computer Science

Week of September 26-30.

Monday and Tuesday: Compare the size of the Earth to the Moon and Sun. Compare the distance from the Earth to the Moon and Sun. Thursday: Update moon calendar. Focus Question, Introduce and construct Earth/Moon models. Introduce Sun model. Answer the focus question.

Wednesday: Read "Apollo 11 Space Mission", Discuss the reading. Read "How did the Earth's Moon Form?" Discuss the reading. Write a reflection about what you learned from the reading in your notebook.

Thursday: Phases of the Moon

Friday: Computer Science

Week of September 19-23.

Monday: Observe the daytime moon, Go outdoors to view daytime moon. What did it look like? Moon calendar. Focus question. HOMEWORK-Night-Sky Log.

Tuesday: Answer Focus question- Discuss Moon observations. Record moon data and vocabulary. Read "The Night Sky" and use 3-2-1 comprehension stategy. Discuss Reading. Study diagram. Read "Looking through Telescopes" Use summarizing chart as comprehension strategy. Discuss Reading.

Wednesday: Update moon calendar. Focus Question, Introduce and construct Earth/Moon models. Introduce Sun model. Answer the focus question.

Thursday: Read "Apollo 11 Space Mission", Discuss the reading. Read "How did the Earth's Moon Form?" Discuss the reading. Write a reflection about what you learned from the reading in your notebook.

Friday: Computer Science

Week of September 12-16.

Monday and Tuesday: Start at 1.3.13 -1.3.22 Do "Reading in Science Resources" pages 137-138, Read "Sunrise and Sunset". Answer Focus Question, 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Wednesday. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Wednesday. 

Wednesday: I-check Investigation 1 

Thursday: Observe the daytime moon, Go outdoors to view daytime moon. What did it look like? Moon calendar. Focus question. HOMEWORK-Night-Sky Log.

Friday: Computer Science.

Week of September 5-9.

Monday and Tuesday: 1.2.13 Identify patterns, 1.2.14 Reproduce shadows with flashlights. 1.2.16 Replicate trackings. Vocabulary, Answer the focus question. 1.2.20-21 Read Changing Shadows in FOSS science resources. Use comprehension strategy.

Wednesday: 1.2.23 Response sheet: Inv. 1. 1.2.25 Share Notebook entries.

Thursday: Start at 1.3.13 -1.3.22 Do "Reading in Science Resources" pages 137-138,

Friday: Computer Science.

Week of August 29- September 2nd.

Monday: Answer and discuss Focus Question. 1.2.1 Review shadow positions, 

Tuesday: 1.2.2 Focus question, Step 4 discuss using sun tracker. Learn how to use a compass. Practice using a compass. Practice orienting compass. 1.2.10 Go outside and mark the tip of the Golf tee's shadow.

Wednesday: 1.2.13 Identify patterns, 1.2.14 Reproduce shadows with flashlights. 1.2.16 Replicate trackings. Vocabulary, Answer the focus question. 1.2.20-21 Read Changing Shadows in FOSS science resources. Use comprehension strategy.

Thursday: 1.2.23 Response sheet: Inv. 1. 1.2.25 Share Notebook entries.

Thursday: Start at 1.3.13 -1.3.22 Do "Reading in Science Resources" pages 137-138, Read "Sunrise and Sunset". Answer Focus Question, 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Tuesday.

Friday: Computer Science Friday.

Week of August 23-27

Tuesday: Introduce Myself and go over Fire, Tornado and other various bathroom, drink, sanitizing and mask policies. Name Tent and padlock practice (locker organization) and money and valuable in lockers.

Wednesday: Create Notebooks, and discuss Science Expectations. Introduce Computers and FOSSweb login procedures.

Thursday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 1-10. Shadows: Focus question, Shadow observations, Outdoor Safety rules, Trace shadows throughout the day.

Friday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 11-17. Discuss shadow changes. Review vocabulary. Answer Focus question

2021-2022

Week of May 23-26.

Monday: Robot competition

Tuesday: Take apart Robots and inventory boxes.

Wednesday: Build Rockets

Thursday: Last Day of School - Launch Rockets

Week of May 16-20.

Monday: Plant Vascular Systems and Look at leaves. Watch video of "Plant Structure and Growth." Read Plant Vascular systems.

Tuesday: Animal Circulatory Systems.

Wednesday: Animal Respiratory Systems

Thursday: Finish Robots for competition.

Friday: Practice Robot Competition

Week of May 9-13.

Monday: Observe wheat experiment. Steps 12- 17 on pages 170 and 171. Answer Focus Question 2.2

Tuesday: Robotics Friday

Wednesday: Willis Welp Relays

Thursday: Read "The Human Digestive System". Fill out Graphic organizer. Watch Digestive and Excretory Systems video. 

Friday: Add vocabulary to the glossary. Answer Focus Question 2.3. Response Sheet 2

Week of May 2-6.

Monday: Introduce wheat seed experiment and what wheat would need to grow. Steps 1-5 on Pages 165 and 166. Plant wheat seeds.

Tuesday: Read Producers and Fill out "anticipation Guide on page 17.

Wednesday: AG day

Thursday: Observe wheat experiment. Steps 10 and 11 on page 169. 

Friday: Robotics Friday

Week of April 25-29.

Monday: Go over test.

Tuesday: Do yeast nutrition cookie experiment.

Wednesday: Do yeast nutrition sugar and flour experiment. Read pages 21-22 and do Graphic organizer on Journal page 14.

Thursday: Discuss yeast experiments, Fill in vocabulary for yeast experiment, Answer Focus Question 2-1.

Friday: Zoo Trip

Week of April 18-22.

Monday: Monday: Discuss Decomposers and Create redworm habitat. Focus Question 1-4

Tuesday: Read pages 18-20, Do Cause-effect organizer. Review for Icheck 1.

Wednesday: Kahoot

Thursday: Icheck 1 test.

Friday: Robotics Friday

Week of April 11-15.

Monday: Create a Kelp Forest Food Web. Draw food web. Focus Question 1.3

Tuesday: Response sheet 1.3. Read "Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary". Watch "Web of Life, Life in the Sea."

Wednesday: Monday: Discuss Decomposers and Create redworm habitat.

Thursday: Robot build and Practice

Friday: No School

Week of April 4-8.

Monday: No Science

Tuesday: Use woods ecosystem cards to create a food chain and a food web. Read "The Biosphere" Vocabulary, Focus Question.

Wednesday: Create a Kelp Forest Food Web. 

Thursday:  No Science - ISASP Science test.

Friday: Computer Science

Week of March 28-April 1.

Monday:  Test over Saturated Solutions.  Introduce System and Subsystem.

Tuesday: Read "Introductions to Systems" and create concept definition map.

Wednesday: Do Focus Question

Thursday: Watch "Physical Systems" chapters 1-5. Discuss video. Read "Is Earth a system? and do comprehension strategy. Look at woods food-web cards. Study organisms.

Friday: Use woods ecosystem cards to create a food chain and a food web. Read "The Biosphere" Vocabulary, Focus Question.

Week of March 21-25.

Monday: Plan Mystery Chemical investigation. 

Tuesday: Start Mystery Chemical investigation.

Wednesday: Finish Mystery Chemical investigation. Try to identify mystery chemical based on evidence.

Thursday: Observe Evaporated solutions. Read "A sweet solution." and "Sour Power" 

Friday: Cyberbullying and Safety

Week of March 14-18.

Spring Break

Week of March 7-11.

Monday: Start Salt Saturation Investigation on page 258.

Tuesday: Finish salt solution experiment. Answer focus question. Read "The Bends" and Fill out Graphic organizer.

Wednesday: Find out how much epsom salt it takes to saturate a 50 ml of water.

Thursday: Finish Epsom salt experiment and Answer Response Sheet 4.

Friday: Robotics building and engineering

Week of March 4-8.

Monday: Icheck 3 test

Tuesday: Review I check 3

Wednesday:  Create a saturated solution experiment.

Thursday: Finish salt solution experiment. Answer focus question. Read "The Bends" and Fill out Graphic organizer.

Friday: Epsom salts Saturation investigation. Answer focus question and response sheet- investigation 4. Have a tea argument.

Week of February 28-March 4.

Monday and Tuesday: Robotics building and engineering

Wednesday: Review for Science Test

Thursday: Icheck 3 test.

Friday: Start Salt Saturation Investigation on page 258.

Week of February 21-25.

Monday: View online activities.  Read "The Air" and "Famous Scientists".

Tuesday: Snow day

Wednesday: Introduce density. Layering Activity. Answer Focus question.

Thursday: Watch "Why are Oceans Salty" video. Read "Carbon Dioxide in the Air". Review for I-check.

Friday: No School

Week of February 14-18.

Monday: Inservice

Tuesday: Read "The Air". Create Circle map. View online activities.

Wednesday: Read "The Air" and "Famous Scientists".

Thursday: Watch "Why are Oceans Salty" video. Read "Carbon Dioxide in the Air". Review for I-check.

Friday: Robotics - Tower challenge engineering

Week of February 7-11.

Monday: Soft drink experiment. Notebook sheet 9, Focus question. Introduce concentration.Answer focus question.

Tuesday: Read "Solutions Up Close" using reading comprehension strategy. Online activity "Tutorial: Conservation of Mass"

Wednesday and Thursday: Review Concentration. Focus question. Salt concentration investigation. Answer Vocabulary and Focus question. Response Sheet - Investigation 3. Read "Concentrated Solutions" and fill in concept map.

Friday: Robotics - Tower challenge engineering

Week of January 31- February 4.

Monday: Robotics - Finish Maze Challenge

Tuesday: Robotics - Tower challenge engineering

Wednesday: "Read Solid to Liquids" and "Liquids to Gases" Create phase change diagram with arrows.

Thursday: Response Sheet 2

Friday: Focus Question dissolving vs melting. Module 2 test.

Week of January 24-28

Monday: Collaborate with black boxes. Black box conferences with consensus. How could you improve models?

Tuesday: Build black boxes. Answer focus question. Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question.

Wednesday: Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question. view on line activity- Black box.

Thursday: Demonstrate drought stopper. Focus Question. Draw your model of the drought stopper. Reveal system. Answer focus question. Assess.

Friday: Robotics: Coding for the Maze

Week of January 17-21

Monday: Read taking mixtures apart. Watch video on "Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures." View online activities. Read "Science Practices" and "Engineering Practices". Fill in vocabulary and glossary.

Tuesday: Answer Focus Question 1.3 and Response Sheet 1

Wednesday: Mixtures and Solutions Investigation 1 Test

Thursday: Black box challenge. Draw the boxes contents. Create black box models.

Friday: Robotics: Coding for the Maze

Week of January 10-14

Monday: Review mixture and solutions. Weigh 50 ml of water. Focus question. Figure out what happens to the water. Develop a model to explain what happens to the water. Answer focus question. Evaporate salt solution.

Tuesday: Observe evaporation. Introduce crystal. Review vocabulary. Response Sheet 1. Support or refute claim. Read Mixtures. Use reading strategies.

Wednesday and Thursday: Separating a dry mixture. Review plan to separate a dry mixture. Get materials and separate. Performance Assessment. Clean up and then answer focus question.Read taking mixtures apart. Watch video on "Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures." View online activities. Read "Science Practices" and "Engineering Practices". Fill in vocabulary and glossary.

Friday: Robotics: Coding for the Maze

Week of January 3-7.

Monday: Inservice

Tuesday: Introduce Chemical safety in the classroom. All students are required to use goggles or safety glasses during this module. Organize groups introduce chemicals.

Wednesday: Observe Gravel, Powder, and Salt and record their properties in Part 1 of sheet. Preview part 2, discuss and then add 50 mL of water to each cup. Define mixture. Focus Question. Separate mixtures: Screen, filter paper. Introduce solution. 

Thursday: Review mixture and solutions. Weigh 50 ml of water. Focus question. Figure out what happens to the water. Develop a model to explain what happens to the water. Answer focus question. Evaporate salt solution.

Friday: Observe evaporation. Introduce crystal. Review vocabulary. Support or refute claim. Read Mixtures. Use reading strategies.

Week of December 13-17.

Monday: Answer Response Sheet 5. Vocabulary Water cycle focus question. Water planet discussion, globe activity, inventory water on Earth, discuss fresh water, and demonstrate water distribution.

Tuesday: Water-cycle activity. Notebook sheet 31. Discuss water cycle and refine. Complete sheet. Summarize water cycle.

Wednesday: Read "The Water Cycle." Watch the Water Cycle and do online water-cycle activity.  Answer focus question 5-3. Read "Severe Weather". Discuss the reading. 

Thursday:  Describe regional conditions. Read "Earth's Climates". Use FOSSweb Climate regions map. Answer the Focus question.

Friday: Read Global Climate Change." Watch climate change video. Review investigation 5. Start Module review.

Monday: Module review

Tuesday: Final test.

Week Of December 6-10.

Monday: Do condensation experiment. Write focus question. Introduce water vapor and discuss where condensation occurs. Create condensation chamber.

Tuesday: Observe condensation chamber and answer questions. Create and observe ice and water system. Add salt to make ice even colder. Make observations. Answer focus question.

Wednesday: Vocabulary and Answer focus question. Preview " Condensation." Answer three questions about an image they find interesting and write then answers in their notebook. Read "Condensation" independently. Reread article. Share notebook entries. 

Thursday: Review Condensation. Focus question: How does water vapor get into the air? How can we investigate this? Create heating water demonstration. Review vocabulary and clean up Notebooks.

Friday: Water cycle focus question. Water planet discussion, globe activity, inventory water on Earth, discuss fresh water, and demonstrate water distribution.

Week of November 29- December 3.

Monday: Review vocabulary. Answer focus question. Read "Solar Technology"  Discuss reading. Start iCheck 4 review. 

Tuesday: Review Investigation 4, Kahoot 

Wednesday: I check 4.

Thursday: Finish Test

Friday: Maze Challenge.

Week of November 22-26

Monday: Do hot water experiment. FIll in data sheet. Water-heater conference meetings. Fill out table and calculate the average.Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question.

Tuesday: Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question. Read "Solar Technology"  Discuss reading. Start iCheck 4 review. 

Wednesday: Robotics Maze Challenge

Thursday: Thanksgiving Vacation

Friday: Thanksgiving Vacation

Week of November 15-19.

Monday: Introduce fluid. Cold water challenge. Discuss challenge. Demonstrate relative density. Focus question: What happens when a volume of fluid is warmed at the bottom? Introduce hot-water question. Notebook sheet 20 and then 21. 

Tuesday: Answer focus question. Share answers Do Response sheet 22. Read "Wind and Convection" Use Reading comprehension strategy. Focus on diagrams. 

Wednesday: Read Wind Power. Redo Response sheet if necessary. Create an experiment to determine the best hot water heater.

Thursday: Do hot water experiment. FIll in data sheet. Water-heater conference meetings. Fill out table and calculate the average.Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question.

Friday: Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question. Read "Solar Technology"  Discuss reading. Start iCheck 4 review. 

Week of November 8-12.

Monday: Take 2 column notes Questions and Responses. Read "Uneven Heating." View online activities.

Tuesday: Conduction: Review Solar Energy, Heat transfer by contact, Do energy transfer challenge: Option 2. Watch "Particles in Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Watch "Energy Transfer: Conduction"

Wednesday: Review conduction, Do virtual investigation "Aluminum and Steel Strips in Water". Write Focus question in Journals, "How does energy transfer to the air. Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Thursday: Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Friday: Maze Challenge 

Week of November 1-5.

Monday: Introduce Solar energy and earth materials. Focus Question: "What happens to earth materials when they are exposed to sunlight." Design Experiment together. Write procedure. Conduct experiment.

Tuesday: Graph and analyze data. Discuss graphs. Introduce radiation and energy transfer, Solar energy exposure, and uneven heating. Review vocabulary. Answer Focus question. Assess Graphs and Focus question. 

Wednesday: Review Vocabulary, Answer Focus Question, Assess graphs and Focus questions, Take 2 column notes Questions and Responses. Read "Uneven Heating." View online activities.

Thursday: Conduction: Review Solar Energy, Heat transfer by contact, Do energy transfer challenge: Option 2. Watch "Particles in Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Watch "Energy Transfer: Conduction"

Friday: No School.

Week of October 25-29.

Monday: Go over Study guide for Investigation 3 

Tuesday: Play Kahoot review

Wednesday: Investigation 3 - I check 

Thursday: Review test and make corrections

Friday: Build Vex Robots

Week of October 18-22.

Monday and Tuesday: Write a brief description of the current weather. Share reports. Discuss forecasting. Write focus question " How do meteorologists measure and record weather variables? Introduce local weather report. Discuss variables in the local report. Introduce wireless weather station.

Wednesday: Introduce Weather Data sheet. Answer focus question. Read "Weather Instruments" pages 92 -94

Thursday: Review Investigation 3 about the atmosphere and weather. All about Meteorology Video Chapters 2,3,4,6,7,8,9, and 14.

Friday: Programming Challenges

Week of October 11-15.

Monday: Write 3 observations and 3 questions about air and syringes. Write (Compress -forcing something into a smaller area), and (pressure - push of air) into notebook index.

Tuesday: Create a model to explain what you have learned about air. Discuss matter and mass. Watch videos on air mass. Read and take notes from "What is air?"

Wednesday: Discuss the Atmosphere, Write the focus question. "What is Earth's atmosphere?" Watch atmosphere video. Read "Earth's Atmosphere" pages 85 - 91. Take notes on each layer. 

Thursday: When finished answer the five atmosphere questions. Discuss the five questions.

Friday: Program 

2021-2022

Week of October 4-8.

Monday: Do Response Sheet 2. Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations. Discuss focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration.

Tuesday: Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations.

Wednesday: Answer focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration. Vocabulary in glossary.

Thursday: Read "Stargazing" and discuss the reading. Watch all about Stars video.

Friday: Computer Science Lesson.

Week of September 27- October 1.

Monday and Tuesday: Introduce the solar system cards challenge. Sort cards by pictures. Discuss categories. Review Orbit. Sort planets by distance from the sun. Then sort other cards using planets. Fill out notebook sheet 9, Solar System Data, Group planets by composition. Discuss composition of planets. Introduce terrestrial planets and gas giant planets, Pluto, Eris, and Halley’s comet . Review vocabulary.

Wednesday: Read “Exploring the Solar System.” Answer focus question. Explain orbit. Read “Why Doesn’t Earth Fly Off into Space?”. 

Thursday: Do Response Sheet 2. Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations. Discuss focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration.

Friday: Computer Science Lesson.

Week of September 20-24.

Monday: Compare the size of the Earth to the Moon and Sun. Compare the distance from the Earth to the Moon and Sun. Thursday: Update moon calendar. Focus Question, Introduce and construct Earth/Moon models. Introduce Sun model. Answer the focus question.

Tuesday: Read "Apollo 11 Space Mission", Discuss the reading. Read "How did the Earth's Moon Form?" Discuss the reading. Write a reflection about what you learned from the reading in your notebook.

Wednesday: Phases of the Moon

Thursday and Friday: Introduce the solar system cards challenge. Sort cards by pictures. Discuss categories. Review Orbit. Sort planets by distance from the sun. Then sort other cards using planets. Fill out notebook sheet 9, Solar System Data, Group planets by composition. Discuss composition of planets. Introduce terrestrial planets and gas giant planets, Pluto, Eris, and Halley’s comet . Review vocabulary.

Week of September 13-17.

Monday: I check 1 Test

Tuesday: Observe the daytime moon, Go outdoors to view daytime moon. What did it look like? Moon calendar. Focus question. HOMEWORK-Night-Sky Log.

Wednesday: Answer Focus question- Discuss Moon observations. Record moon data and vocabulary. Read "The Night Sky" and use 3-2-1 comprehension stategy. Discuss Reading. Study diagram. Read "Looking through Telescopes" Use summarizing chart as comprehension strategy. Discuss Reading.

Thursday: Update moon calendar. Focus Question, Introduce and construct Earth/Moon models. Introduce Sun model. Answer the focus question.

Friday: Computer Science Friday.

Week of September 6-10.

Monday: Labor Day

Tuesday: Start at 1.3.13 -1.3.22 Do "Reading in Science Resources" pages 137-138, Read "Sunrise and Sunset". Answer Focus Question, 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Wednesday.

Wednesday: Review Investigation 1 for I-check Thursday. 

Thursday: I check 1 Test

Friday: Computer Science Friday.

Week of August 30 - September 3.

Monday: Answer and discuss Focus Question. 1.2.1 Review shadow positions, 1.2.2 Focus question, Step 4 discuss using sun tracker. Learn how to use a compass. Practice using a compass. Tape compass to sun tracker. Practice orienting compass. 1.2.10 Go outside and mark the tip of the Golf tee's shadow.

Tuesday: 1.2.13 Identify patterns, 1.2.14 Reproduce shadows with flashlights. 1.2.16 Replicate trackings. Vocabulary, Answer the focus question. 1.2.20-21 Read Changing Shadows in FOSS science resources. Use comprehension strategy.

Wednesday: 1.2.23 Response sheet: Inv. 1. 1.2.25 Share Notebook entries.

Thursday: Start at 1.3.13 -1.3.22 Do "Reading in Science Resources" pages 137-138, Read "Sunrise and Sunset". Answer Focus Question, 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Tuesday.

Friday: Computer Science Friday.

Week of August 23-27

Monday: Introduce Myself and go over Fire, Tornado and other various bathroom, drink, sanitizing and mask policies. Name Tent and padlock practice (locker organization) and money and valuable in lockers.

Tuesday: Create Notebooks, and discuss Science Expectations. Introduce Computers and FOSSweb login procedures.

Wednesday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 1-10. Shadows: Focus question, Shadow observations, Outdoor Safety rules, Trace shadows throughout the day.

Thursday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 11-17. Discuss shadow changes. Review vocabulary. Answer Focus question.

Friday: 

2020-2021

Week of June 1-3. 

Monday: Memorial Day

Tuesday: States of Matter and Changes in States of Matter

Wednesday: Build Rockets.

Thursday: Fly compressed air rockets. Have a great summer.

Week of May 24-28. 

Monday: Build black boxes. Answer focus question. Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question.

Tuesday: Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question. view on line activity- Black box.

Wednesday: Demonstrate drought stopper. Focus Question. Draw your model of the drought stopper. Reveal system. Answer focus question. Assess.

Thursday: Read "Beachcombing Science." Discuss the reading. Share the process used to create a model. 1. Observe 2, Create or construct, 3.Analyze, 4. Revise.

Friday: Focus question. Hot water bath investigation. Discuss the results of heating. Answer the focus question. 

Week of May 17-21.

Monday: Quizizz review for Mixtures and Solutions Investigation 1

Tuesday: Mixtures and Solutions Investigation 1 Test

Wednesday: Black box challenge. Draw the boxes contents. Create black box models.

Thursday: Collaborate with black boxes. Black box conferences with consensus. How could you improve models?

Friday: Build black boxes. Answer focus question. Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question.

Week of May 10-14.

Monday and Tuesday: Separating a dry mixture. Review plan to separate a dry mixture. Get materials and separate. Performance Assessment. Clean up and then answer focus question. Read taking mixtures apart. Watch video on "Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures." View online activities. Read "Science Practices" and "Engineering Practices". Fill in vocabulary and glossary.

Wednesday: Answer Focus Question 1.3 and Response Sheet 1

Thursday: Robotics: Coding for the Maze

Friday: Review for Test

Week of May 3-7.

Monday: Review mixture and solutions. Weigh 50 ml of water. Focus question. Figure out what happens to the water. Develop a model to explain what happens to the water. Answer focus question. Evaporate salt solution.

Tuesday: Observe evaporation. Introduce crystal. Review vocabulary. Support or refute claim. Read Mixtures. Use reading strategies.

Wednesday and Thursday: Separating a dry mixture. Review plan to separate a dry mixture. Get materials and separate. Performance Assessment. Clean up and then answer focus question.Read taking mixtures apart. Watch video on "Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures." View online activities. Read "Science Practices" and "Engineering Practices". Fill in vocabulary and glossary.

Friday: Robotics: Coding for the Maze

Week of April 26-30.

Monday: Introduce Chemical safety in the classroom. All students are required to use goggles or safety glasses during this module. Organize groups introduce chemicals and disassemble cooker/heaters in needed.

Tuesday: Observe Gravel, Powder, and Salt and record their properties in Part 1 of sheet. Preview part 2, discuss and then add 50 mL of water to each cup. Define mixture. Focus Question. Separate mixtures: Screen, filter paper. Introduce solution. 

Wednesday: Review mixture and solutions. Weigh 50 ml of water. Focus question. Figure out what happens to the water. Develop a model to explain what happens to the water. Answer focus question. Evaporate salt solution.

Thursday: Observe evaporation. Introduce crystal. Review vocabulary. Support or refute claim. Read Mixtures. Use reading strategies.

Friday: Zoo Field Trip

Week of April 18-23

Monday: 

Tuesday: Review for test.

Wednesday: Kahoot/Quizizz

Thursday: Final Living Systems Test

Friday: Vex coding Maze

Week of April 5-9.

Monday: ISASP Science test.

Tuesday: Sense activities on pages 283-285. Introduce Adaptations. Read "Sensory Systems" on pages 62-64. Discuss. Read Animal Communication on pages 65-69. Do "Animal Communication" Review.

Wednesday: Review vocabulary. Answer Focus Question 4.2 and Response Sheet Investigation 4.

Thursday: Review central nervous system on page 295, Watch "Animal Behavior and Communication" video. Introduce Inherited traits.

Friday: Programming VEX robots.

Week of March 29 - April 2.

Monday: Review test, Introduce stimulus response. Read "Stimulus and Response in Humans" on pages 58 - 61. Watch "The Brain and Nervous System Video"

Tuesday: Do Falling Cup experiment,

Wednesday: Add to Glossary, review  vocabulary words. Answer Focus Question 4.1.

Thursday: Do ISASP review - Link.

Friday: No school.

Week of March 22-26.

Monday: Review vocabulary and Answer focus question. Read "Other Circulatory and Respiratory Systems" on pages 56-57 . Fill out a Box and T-chart on similarities and differences. Start filling out the study guide.

Tuesday: Go over Study Guide and Study for the test.

Wednesday: Science Review Kahoot or Quizizz

Thursday: Living Systems Science Test on Investigation 3.

Friday: Robotics disassemble and create an autobot.

Week of March 15-19.

Spring Break

Week of March 8-12.

Monday: Make a Heart Experiment

Tuesday: Add to Glossary, review heart vocabulary. Answer Focus Question 3.2 and Response Sheet 3.

Wednesday: Review Nutrient Transportation, Introduce the respiratory System. Read "The Human Respiratory System"on pages 54-55.  Watch 2 minute Respiration video. Answer The Human Respiratory System questions. 

Thursday: Introduce Vital Capacity, and do vital capacity video. Graph results.

Friday: Robotics Competition Day

Week of March 1-5.

Monday: Monitor wheat growth. Read " Plant Vascular Systems" on pages 36-42. View Plant Vascular System online activity. 

Tuesday: Read "The Story of Maple Syrup" on pages 43-47. Add to Glossary "Handout  page."  Watch "Plant Structure and Growth" Video.

Wednesday: Answer Focus Question 3.1. Introduce the human circulatory system.

Thursday: Watch Heart Video and Read "The Human Circulatory System" on pages 48-53.

Friday: Robotics

Week of February 22-26

Monday: Reader's Theater presentation.

Tuesday: Vex Robotics

Wednesday: Follow Part 1 of investigation 3: Plant vascular systems. on Pages 211-213.

Thursday: Read "Leaf Classification" on pages 34 and 35., Set up wheat seed chambers.

Friday: No School

Week of February 15 -19

Monday: No School

Tuesday: No School

Wednesday: Do Response sheet 2 and Fill Out investigation 2 study guide.

Thursday: Go over Study guide and Play Kahoot.

Friday: Test.

Week of February 8-12

Monday: Observe wheat experiment. Steps 12- 17 on pages 170 and 171. 

Tuesday: Follow Pages 177-180. Read "Getting Nutrients" Pages 27-31.

Wednesday: Watch Video on the Food Chain. Read "The Human Digestive System". Fill out Graphic organizer.

Thursday: Watch Digestive and Excretory Systems video. Add vocabulary to the glossary. Answer Focus Question 2.3.

Friday: Watch Hoot

Week of February 1-5

Monday: Fill in vocabulary for yeast experiment, Answer Focus Question 2-1. Introduce wheat seed experiment and what wheat would need to grow. Steps 1-5 on Pages 165 and 166. 

Tuesday: Plant wheat seeds. Read Producers and Fill out "anticipation Guide on page 17.

Friday: Observe wheat experiment. Steps 10 and 11 on page 169. 

Week of January 25-29

Monday:  Review Investigation 1 test.

Tuesday: Snow Day

Wednesday: Do yeast nutrition cookie experiment.

Thursday: Do yeast nutrition sugar and flour experiment.

Friday: Discuss yeast experiments, Read pages 21-22 and do Graphic organizer on Journal page 14.

Week of January 18-22

Monday: Discuss Decomposers and Create redworm habitat.

Tuesday: Read pages 18-20, Do Cause-effect organizer. Review for Icheck 1.

Wednesday: Kahoot

Thursday: Icheck 1 test.

Friday: Robotics Friday

Week of January 11-15.

Monday: Create a Kelp Forest Food Web. 

Tuesday: Create a Kelp Forest Food Web. Draw food web. Focus Question 1.3

Wednesday: Response sheet 1.3. Read "Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary". Watch "Web of Life, Life in the Sea."

Thursday:  Read "Comparing Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems." Vocabulary. Focus Question.

Friday: Snow day

Week of January 4-8.

Monday: Introduce System and Subsystem.

Tuesday: Read "Introductions to Systems" and create concept definition map.

Wednesday: Do Focus Question

Thursday: Watch "Physical Systems" chapters 1-5. Discuss video. Read "Is Earth a system? and do comprehension strategy. Look at woods food-web cards. Study organisms.

Friday: Use woods ecosystem cards to create a food chain and a food web. Read "The Biosphere" Vocabulary, Focus Question.

Week of December 21-25.

Monday: Robotics Challenge building.

Tuesday: Video

Week of December 14-18.

Monday:  Describe regional conditions. Read "Earth's Climates". Use FOSSweb Climate regions map. Answer the Focus question.

Tuesday: Read Global Climate Change." Watch climate change video. Review investigation 5. Start Module review.

Wednesday: Module review

Thursday: Final test.

Friday: Building Robots for the challenge

Week of December 7-11.

Monday: Water cycle focus question. Water planet discussion, globe activity, inventory water on Earth, discuss fresh water, and demonstrate water distribution.

Tuesday: Water-cycle activity. Notebook sheet 31. Discuss water cycle and refine. Complete sheet. Summarize water cycle.

Wednesday: Read "The Water Cycle." Watch the Water Cycle and do online water-cycle activity.  Answer focus question 5-3. 

Thursday: Read "Severe Weather". Discuss the reading.

Friday: Building Robots for the challenge

Week of November 30- December 4.

Monday: Do condensation experiment. Write focus question. Introduce water vapor and discuss where condensation occurs. Create condensation chamber.

Tuesday: Observe condensation chamber and answer questions. Create and observe ice and water system. Add salt to make ice even colder. Make observations. Answer focus question.

Wednesday: Vocabulary and Answer focus question. Preview " Condensation." Answer three questions about an image they find interesting and write then answers in their notebook. Read "Condensation" independently. Reread article. Share notebook entries. 

Thursday: Review Condensation. Focus question: How does water vapor get into the air? How can we investigate this? Create heating water demonstration. Review vocabulary and clean up Notebooks.

Friday: Building Robots for the challenge

Week of November 23-27

Monday:Introduce Solar Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Tuesday:Solar Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Wednesday: Solar Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Thursday: Thanksgiving vacation

Friday: Thanksgiving vacation

Week of November 16-20.

Monday:Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. 

Tuesday: Answer focus question. Read "Solar Technology"  Discuss reading. Start iCheck 4 review. 

Wednesday: Review Investigation 4, Kahoot 

Thursday: I check 4.

Friday: Building Robots for the challenge

Week of November 9-13

Monday: Answer focus question. Share answers Do Response sheet 22. Read "Wind and Convection" Use Reading comprehension strategy. Focus on diagrams. 

Tuesday: Read Wind Power. Redo Response sheet if necessary. Create an experiment to determine the best hot water heater.

Wednesday: Do hot water experiment. FIll in data sheet. Water-heater conference meetings. Fill out table and calculate the average.Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question.

Thursday: Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question. Read "Solar Technology"  Discuss reading. Start iCheck 4 review. 

Friday: Controlling Robots time trials

Week of November 2-6

Monday: Conduction: Review Solar Energy, Heat transfer by contact, Do energy transfer challenge: Option 2. Watch "Particles in Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Watch "Energy Transfer: Conduction"

Tuesday: Review conduction, Do virtual investigation "Aluminum and Steel Strips in Water". Write Focus question in Journals, "How does energy transfer to the air. Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Wednesday: Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Thursday: Introduce fluid. Cold water challenge. Discuss challenge. Demonstrate relative density. Focus question: What happens when a volume of fluid is warmed at the bottom? Introduce hot-water question. Notebook sheet 20 and then 21. 

Friday: No School - teach comp day

Week of October 26-30

Monday: Introduce Solar energy and earth materials. Focus Question: "What happens to earth materials when they are exposed to sunlight." Design Experiment together. Write procedure. Conduct experiment.

Tuesday: Graph and analyze data. Discuss graphs. Introduce radiation and energy transfer, Solar energy exposure, and uneven heating. Review vocabulary. Answer Focus question. Assess Graphs and Focus question. 

Wednesday: Review Vocabulary, Answer Focus Question, Assess graphs and Focus questions, Take 2 column notes Questions and Responses. Read "Uneven Heating." View online activities.

Thursday: Conduction: Review Solar Energy, Heat transfer by contact, Do energy transfer challenge: Option 2. Watch "Particles in Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Watch "Energy Transfer: Conduction"

Friday: Build Vex Robots

Week of October 19-23.

Monday: Go over Study guide for Investigation 3 

Tuesday: Play Kahoot review

Wednesday: Investigation 3 - I check 

Thursday: Review test and make corrections

Friday: Build Vex Robots

Week of October 12-16.

Monday and Tuesday: Write a brief description of the current weather. Share reports. Discuss forecasting. Write focus question " How do meteorologists measure and record weather variables? Introduce local weather report. Discuss variables in the local report. Introduce wireless weather station.

Wednesday: Introduce Weather Data sheet. Answer focus question. Read "Weather Instruments" pages 92 -94

Thursday: Review Investigation 3 about the atmosphere and weather. All about Meteorology Video Chapters 2,3,4,6,7,8,9, and 14.

Friday: Organize Vex Kits

Week of October 5 - 9.

Monday: Write 3 observations and 3 questions about air and syringes. Write (Compress -forcing something into a smaller area), and (pressure - push of air) into notebook index.

Tuesday: Create a model to explain what you have learned about air. Discuss matter and mass. Watch videos on air mass. Read and take notes from "What is air?"

Wednesday: Discuss the Atmosphere, Write the focus question. "What is Earth's atmosphere?" Watch atmosphere video. Read "Earth's Atmosphere" pages 85 - 91. Take notes on each layer. 

Thursday: When finished answer the five atmosphere questions. Discuss the five questions.

Friday: Organize Vex kits

Week of October 4-8.

Monday: Do Response Sheet 2. Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations. Discuss focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration.

Tuesday: Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations.

Wednesday: Answer focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration. Vocabulary in glossary.

Thursday: Read "Stargazing" and discuss the reading. Watch all about Stars video.

Friday: Computer Science Lesson.

Week of September 27- October 1.

Monday and Tuesday: Introduce the solar system cards challenge. Sort cards by pictures. Discuss categories. Review Orbit. Sort planets by distance from the sun. Then sort other cards using planets. Fill out notebook sheet 9, Solar System Data, Group planets by composition. Discuss composition of planets. Introduce terrestrial planets and gas giant planets, Pluto, Eris, and Halley’s comet . Review vocabulary.

Wednesday: Read “Exploring the Solar System.” Answer focus question. Explain orbit. Read “Why Doesn’t Earth Fly Off into Space?”. 

Thursday: Do Response Sheet 2. Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations. Discuss focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration.

Friday: Computer Science Lesson.

Week of September 20-24.

Monday: Compare the size of the Earth to the Moon and Sun. Compare the distance from the Earth to the Moon and Sun. Thursday: Update moon calendar. Focus Question, Introduce and construct Earth/Moon models. Introduce Sun model. Answer the focus question.

Tuesday: Read "Apollo 11 Space Mission", Discuss the reading. Read "How did the Earth's Moon Form?" Discuss the reading. Write a reflection about what you learned from the reading in your notebook.

Wednesday: Phases of the Moon

Thursday and Friday: Introduce the solar system cards challenge. Sort cards by pictures. Discuss categories. Review Orbit. Sort planets by distance from the sun. Then sort other cards using planets. Fill out notebook sheet 9, Solar System Data, Group planets by composition. Discuss composition of planets. Introduce terrestrial planets and gas giant planets, Pluto, Eris, and Halley’s comet . Review vocabulary.

Week of September 13-17.

Monday: I check 1 Test

Tuesday: Observe the daytime moon, Go outdoors to view daytime moon. What did it look like? Moon calendar. Focus question. HOMEWORK-Night-Sky Log.

Wednesday: Answer Focus question- Discuss Moon observations. Record moon data and vocabulary. Read "The Night Sky" and use 3-2-1 comprehension stategy. Discuss Reading. Study diagram. Read "Looking through Telescopes" Use summarizing chart as comprehension strategy. Discuss Reading.

Thursday: Update moon calendar. Focus Question, Introduce and construct Earth/Moon models. Introduce Sun model. Answer the focus question.

Friday: Computer Science Friday.

Week of September 6-10.

Monday: Labor Day

Tuesday: Start at 1.3.13 -1.3.22 Do "Reading in Science Resources" pages 137-138, Read "Sunrise and Sunset". Answer Focus Question, 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Wednesday.

Wednesday: Review Investigation 1 for I-check Thursday. 

Thursday: I check 1 Test

Friday: Computer Science Friday.

Week of August 30 - September 3.

Monday: Answer and discuss Focus Question. 1.2.1 Review shadow positions, 1.2.2 Focus question, Step 4 discuss using sun tracker. Learn how to use a compass. Practice using a compass. Tape compass to sun tracker. Practice orienting compass. 1.2.10 Go outside and mark the tip of the Golf tee's shadow.

Tuesday: 1.2.13 Identify patterns, 1.2.14 Reproduce shadows with flashlights. 1.2.16 Replicate trackings. Vocabulary, Answer the focus question. 1.2.20-21 Read Changing Shadows in FOSS science resources. Use comprehension strategy.

Wednesday: 1.2.23 Response sheet: Inv. 1. 1.2.25 Share Notebook entries.

Thursday: Start at 1.3.13 -1.3.22 Do "Reading in Science Resources" pages 137-138, Read "Sunrise and Sunset". Answer Focus Question, 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Tuesday.

Friday: Computer Science Friday.

Week of August 23-27

Monday: Introduce Myself and go over Fire, Tornado and other various bathroom, drink, sanitizing and mask policies. Name Tent and padlock practice (locker organization) and money and valuable in lockers.

Tuesday: Create Notebooks, and discuss Science Expectations. Introduce Computers and FOSSweb login procedures.

Wednesday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 1-10. Shadows: Focus question, Shadow observations, Outdoor Safety rules, Trace shadows throughout the day.

Thursday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 11-17. Discuss shadow changes. Review vocabulary. Answer Focus question.

Friday: 

2020-2021

Week of June 1-3. 

Monday: Memorial Day

Tuesday: States of Matter and Changes in States of Matter

Wednesday: Build Rockets.

Thursday: Fly compressed air rockets. Have a great summer.

Week of May 24-28. 

Monday: Build black boxes. Answer focus question. Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question.

Tuesday: Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question. view on line activity- Black box.

Wednesday: Demonstrate drought stopper. Focus Question. Draw your model of the drought stopper. Reveal system. Answer focus question. Assess.

Thursday: Read "Beachcombing Science." Discuss the reading. Share the process used to create a model. 1. Observe 2, Create or construct, 3.Analyze, 4. Revise.

Friday: Focus question. Hot water bath investigation. Discuss the results of heating. Answer the focus question. 

Week of May 17-21.

Monday: Quizizz review for Mixtures and Solutions Investigation 1

Tuesday: Mixtures and Solutions Investigation 1 Test

Wednesday: Black box challenge. Draw the boxes contents. Create black box models.

Thursday: Collaborate with black boxes. Black box conferences with consensus. How could you improve models?

Friday: Build black boxes. Answer focus question. Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question.

Week of May 10-14.

Monday and Tuesday: Separating a dry mixture. Review plan to separate a dry mixture. Get materials and separate. Performance Assessment. Clean up and then answer focus question. Read taking mixtures apart. Watch video on "Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures." View online activities. Read "Science Practices" and "Engineering Practices". Fill in vocabulary and glossary.

Wednesday: Answer Focus Question 1.3 and Response Sheet 1

Thursday: Robotics: Coding for the Maze

Friday: Review for Test

Week of May 3-7.

Monday: Review mixture and solutions. Weigh 50 ml of water. Focus question. Figure out what happens to the water. Develop a model to explain what happens to the water. Answer focus question. Evaporate salt solution.

Tuesday: Observe evaporation. Introduce crystal. Review vocabulary. Support or refute claim. Read Mixtures. Use reading strategies.

Wednesday and Thursday: Separating a dry mixture. Review plan to separate a dry mixture. Get materials and separate. Performance Assessment. Clean up and then answer focus question.Read taking mixtures apart. Watch video on "Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures." View online activities. Read "Science Practices" and "Engineering Practices". Fill in vocabulary and glossary.

Friday: Robotics: Coding for the Maze

Week of April 26-30.

Monday: Introduce Chemical safety in the classroom. All students are required to use goggles or safety glasses during this module. Organize groups introduce chemicals and disassemble cooker/heaters in needed.

Tuesday: Observe Gravel, Powder, and Salt and record their properties in Part 1 of sheet. Preview part 2, discuss and then add 50 mL of water to each cup. Define mixture. Focus Question. Separate mixtures: Screen, filter paper. Introduce solution. 

Wednesday: Review mixture and solutions. Weigh 50 ml of water. Focus question. Figure out what happens to the water. Develop a model to explain what happens to the water. Answer focus question. Evaporate salt solution.

Thursday: Observe evaporation. Introduce crystal. Review vocabulary. Support or refute claim. Read Mixtures. Use reading strategies.

Friday: Zoo Field Trip

Week of April 18-23

Monday: 

Tuesday: Review for test.

Wednesday: Kahoot/Quizizz

Thursday: Final Living Systems Test

Friday: Vex coding Maze

Week of April 5-9.

Monday: ISASP Science test.

Tuesday: Sense activities on pages 283-285. Introduce Adaptations. Read "Sensory Systems" on pages 62-64. Discuss. Read Animal Communication on pages 65-69. Do "Animal Communication" Review.

Wednesday: Review vocabulary. Answer Focus Question 4.2 and Response Sheet Investigation 4.

Thursday: Review central nervous system on page 295, Watch "Animal Behavior and Communication" video. Introduce Inherited traits.

Friday: Programming VEX robots.

Week of March 29 - April 2.

Monday: Review test, Introduce stimulus response. Read "Stimulus and Response in Humans" on pages 58 - 61. Watch "The Brain and Nervous System Video"

Tuesday: Do Falling Cup experiment,

Wednesday: Add to Glossary, review  vocabulary words. Answer Focus Question 4.1.

Thursday: Do ISASP review - Link.

Friday: No school.

Week of March 22-26.

Monday: Review vocabulary and Answer focus question. Read "Other Circulatory and Respiratory Systems" on pages 56-57 . Fill out a Box and T-chart on similarities and differences. Start filling out the study guide.

Tuesday: Go over Study Guide and Study for the test.

Wednesday: Science Review Kahoot or Quizizz

Thursday: Living Systems Science Test on Investigation 3.

Friday: Robotics disassemble and create an autobot.

Week of March 15-19.

Spring Break

Week of March 8-12.

Monday: Make a Heart Experiment

Tuesday: Add to Glossary, review heart vocabulary. Answer Focus Question 3.2 and Response Sheet 3.

Wednesday: Review Nutrient Transportation, Introduce the respiratory System. Read "The Human Respiratory System"on pages 54-55.  Watch 2 minute Respiration video. Answer The Human Respiratory System questions. 

Thursday: Introduce Vital Capacity, and do vital capacity video. Graph results.

Friday: Robotics Competition Day

Week of March 1-5.

Monday: Monitor wheat growth. Read " Plant Vascular Systems" on pages 36-42. View Plant Vascular System online activity. 

Tuesday: Read "The Story of Maple Syrup" on pages 43-47. Add to Glossary "Handout  page."  Watch "Plant Structure and Growth" Video.

Wednesday: Answer Focus Question 3.1. Introduce the human circulatory system.

Thursday: Watch Heart Video and Read "The Human Circulatory System" on pages 48-53.

Friday: Robotics

Week of February 22-26

Monday: Reader's Theater presentation.

Tuesday: Vex Robotics

Wednesday: Follow Part 1 of investigation 3: Plant vascular systems. on Pages 211-213.

Thursday: Read "Leaf Classification" on pages 34 and 35., Set up wheat seed chambers.

Friday: No School

Week of February 15 -19

Monday: No School

Tuesday: No School

Wednesday: Do Response sheet 2 and Fill Out investigation 2 study guide.

Thursday: Go over Study guide and Play Kahoot.

Friday: Test.

Week of February 8-12

Monday: Observe wheat experiment. Steps 12- 17 on pages 170 and 171. 

Tuesday: Follow Pages 177-180. Read "Getting Nutrients" Pages 27-31.

Wednesday: Watch Video on the Food Chain. Read "The Human Digestive System". Fill out Graphic organizer.

Thursday: Watch Digestive and Excretory Systems video. Add vocabulary to the glossary. Answer Focus Question 2.3.

Friday: Watch Hoot

Week of February 1-5

Monday: Fill in vocabulary for yeast experiment, Answer Focus Question 2-1. Introduce wheat seed experiment and what wheat would need to grow. Steps 1-5 on Pages 165 and 166. 

Tuesday: Plant wheat seeds. Read Producers and Fill out "anticipation Guide on page 17.

Friday: Observe wheat experiment. Steps 10 and 11 on page 169. 

Week of January 25-29

Monday:  Review Investigation 1 test.

Tuesday: Snow Day

Wednesday: Do yeast nutrition cookie experiment.

Thursday: Do yeast nutrition sugar and flour experiment.

Friday: Discuss yeast experiments, Read pages 21-22 and do Graphic organizer on Journal page 14.

Week of January 18-22

Monday: Discuss Decomposers and Create redworm habitat.

Tuesday: Read pages 18-20, Do Cause-effect organizer. Review for Icheck 1.

Wednesday: Kahoot

Thursday: Icheck 1 test.

Friday: Robotics Friday

Week of January 11-15.

Monday: Create a Kelp Forest Food Web. 

Tuesday: Create a Kelp Forest Food Web. Draw food web. Focus Question 1.3

Wednesday: Response sheet 1.3. Read "Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary". Watch "Web of Life, Life in the Sea."

Thursday:  Read "Comparing Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems." Vocabulary. Focus Question.

Friday: Snow day

Week of January 4-8.

Monday: Introduce System and Subsystem.

Tuesday: Read "Introductions to Systems" and create concept definition map.

Wednesday: Do Focus Question

Thursday: Watch "Physical Systems" chapters 1-5. Discuss video. Read "Is Earth a system? and do comprehension strategy. Look at woods food-web cards. Study organisms.

Friday: Use woods ecosystem cards to create a food chain and a food web. Read "The Biosphere" Vocabulary, Focus Question.

Week of December 21-25.

Monday: Robotics Challenge building.

Tuesday: Video

Week of December 14-18.

Monday:  Describe regional conditions. Read "Earth's Climates". Use FOSSweb Climate regions map. Answer the Focus question.

Tuesday: Read Global Climate Change." Watch climate change video. Review investigation 5. Start Module review.

Wednesday: Module review

Thursday: Final test.

Friday: Building Robots for the challenge

Week of December 7-11.

Monday: Water cycle focus question. Water planet discussion, globe activity, inventory water on Earth, discuss fresh water, and demonstrate water distribution.

Tuesday: Water-cycle activity. Notebook sheet 31. Discuss water cycle and refine. Complete sheet. Summarize water cycle.

Wednesday: Read "The Water Cycle." Watch the Water Cycle and do online water-cycle activity.  Answer focus question 5-3. 

Thursday: Read "Severe Weather". Discuss the reading.

Friday: Building Robots for the challenge

Week of November 30- December 4.

Monday: Do condensation experiment. Write focus question. Introduce water vapor and discuss where condensation occurs. Create condensation chamber.

Tuesday: Observe condensation chamber and answer questions. Create and observe ice and water system. Add salt to make ice even colder. Make observations. Answer focus question.

Wednesday: Vocabulary and Answer focus question. Preview " Condensation." Answer three questions about an image they find interesting and write then answers in their notebook. Read "Condensation" independently. Reread article. Share notebook entries. 

Thursday: Review Condensation. Focus question: How does water vapor get into the air? How can we investigate this? Create heating water demonstration. Review vocabulary and clean up Notebooks.

Friday: Building Robots for the challenge

Week of November 23-27

Monday:Introduce Solar Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Tuesday:Solar Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Wednesday: Solar Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Thursday: Thanksgiving vacation

Friday: Thanksgiving vacation

Week of November 16-20.

Monday:Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. 

Tuesday: Answer focus question. Read "Solar Technology"  Discuss reading. Start iCheck 4 review. 

Wednesday: Review Investigation 4, Kahoot 

Thursday: I check 4.

Friday: Building Robots for the challenge

Week of November 9-13

Monday: Answer focus question. Share answers Do Response sheet 22. Read "Wind and Convection" Use Reading comprehension strategy. Focus on diagrams. 

Tuesday: Read Wind Power. Redo Response sheet if necessary. Create an experiment to determine the best hot water heater.

Wednesday: Do hot water experiment. FIll in data sheet. Water-heater conference meetings. Fill out table and calculate the average.Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question.

Thursday: Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question. Read "Solar Technology"  Discuss reading. Start iCheck 4 review. 

Friday: Controlling Robots time trials

Week of November 2-6

Monday: Conduction: Review Solar Energy, Heat transfer by contact, Do energy transfer challenge: Option 2. Watch "Particles in Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Watch "Energy Transfer: Conduction"

Tuesday: Review conduction, Do virtual investigation "Aluminum and Steel Strips in Water". Write Focus question in Journals, "How does energy transfer to the air. Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Wednesday: Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Thursday: Introduce fluid. Cold water challenge. Discuss challenge. Demonstrate relative density. Focus question: What happens when a volume of fluid is warmed at the bottom? Introduce hot-water question. Notebook sheet 20 and then 21. 

Friday: No School - teach comp day

Week of October 26-30

Monday: Introduce Solar energy and earth materials. Focus Question: "What happens to earth materials when they are exposed to sunlight." Design Experiment together. Write procedure. Conduct experiment.

Tuesday: Graph and analyze data. Discuss graphs. Introduce radiation and energy transfer, Solar energy exposure, and uneven heating. Review vocabulary. Answer Focus question. Assess Graphs and Focus question. 

Wednesday: Review Vocabulary, Answer Focus Question, Assess graphs and Focus questions, Take 2 column notes Questions and Responses. Read "Uneven Heating." View online activities.

Thursday: Conduction: Review Solar Energy, Heat transfer by contact, Do energy transfer challenge: Option 2. Watch "Particles in Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Watch "Energy Transfer: Conduction"

Friday: Build Vex Robots

Week of October 19-23.

Monday: Go over Study guide for Investigation 3 

Tuesday: Play Kahoot review

Wednesday: Investigation 3 - I check 

Thursday: Review test and make corrections

Friday: Build Vex Robots

Week of October 12-16.

Monday and Tuesday: Write a brief description of the current weather. Share reports. Discuss forecasting. Write focus question " How do meteorologists measure and record weather variables? Introduce local weather report. Discuss variables in the local report. Introduce wireless weather station.

Wednesday: Introduce Weather Data sheet. Answer focus question. Read "Weather Instruments" pages 92 -94

Thursday: Review Investigation 3 about the atmosphere and weather. All about Meteorology Video Chapters 2,3,4,6,7,8,9, and 14.

Friday: Organize Vex Kits

Week of October 5 - 9.

Monday: Write 3 observations and 3 questions about air and syringes. Write (Compress -forcing something into a smaller area), and (pressure - push of air) into notebook index.

Tuesday: Create a model to explain what you have learned about air. Discuss matter and mass. Watch videos on air mass. Read and take notes from "What is air?"

Wednesday: Discuss the Atmosphere, Write the focus question. "What is Earth's atmosphere?" Watch atmosphere video. Read "Earth's Atmosphere" pages 85 - 91. Take notes on each layer. 

Thursday: When finished answer the five atmosphere questions. Discuss the five questions.

Friday: Organize Vex kits

Week of October 4-8.

Monday: Do Response Sheet 2. Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations. Discuss focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration.

Tuesday: Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations.

Wednesday: Answer focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration. Vocabulary in glossary.

Thursday: Read "Stargazing" and discuss the reading. Watch all about Stars video.

Friday: Computer Science Lesson.

Week of September 27- October 1.

Monday and Tuesday: Introduce the solar system cards challenge. Sort cards by pictures. Discuss categories. Review Orbit. Sort planets by distance from the sun. Then sort other cards using planets. Fill out notebook sheet 9, Solar System Data, Group planets by composition. Discuss composition of planets. Introduce terrestrial planets and gas giant planets, Pluto, Eris, and Halley’s comet . Review vocabulary.

Wednesday: Read “Exploring the Solar System.” Answer focus question. Explain orbit. Read “Why Doesn’t Earth Fly Off into Space?”. 

Thursday: Do Response Sheet 2. Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations. Discuss focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration.

Friday: Computer Science Lesson.

Week of September 20-24.

Monday: Compare the size of the Earth to the Moon and Sun. Compare the distance from the Earth to the Moon and Sun. Thursday: Update moon calendar. Focus Question, Introduce and construct Earth/Moon models. Introduce Sun model. Answer the focus question.

Tuesday: Read "Apollo 11 Space Mission", Discuss the reading. Read "How did the Earth's Moon Form?" Discuss the reading. Write a reflection about what you learned from the reading in your notebook.

Wednesday: Phases of the Moon

Thursday and Friday: Introduce the solar system cards challenge. Sort cards by pictures. Discuss categories. Review Orbit. Sort planets by distance from the sun. Then sort other cards using planets. Fill out notebook sheet 9, Solar System Data, Group planets by composition. Discuss composition of planets. Introduce terrestrial planets and gas giant planets, Pluto, Eris, and Halley’s comet . Review vocabulary.

Week of September 13-17.

Monday: I check 1 Test

Tuesday: Observe the daytime moon, Go outdoors to view daytime moon. What did it look like? Moon calendar. Focus question. HOMEWORK-Night-Sky Log.

Wednesday: Answer Focus question- Discuss Moon observations. Record moon data and vocabulary. Read "The Night Sky" and use 3-2-1 comprehension stategy. Discuss Reading. Study diagram. Read "Looking through Telescopes" Use summarizing chart as comprehension strategy. Discuss Reading.

Thursday: Update moon calendar. Focus Question, Introduce and construct Earth/Moon models. Introduce Sun model. Answer the focus question.

Friday: Computer Science Friday.

Week of September 6-10.

Monday: Labor Day

Tuesday: Start at 1.3.13 -1.3.22 Do "Reading in Science Resources" pages 137-138, Read "Sunrise and Sunset". Answer Focus Question, 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Wednesday.

Wednesday: Review Investigation 1 for I-check Thursday. 

Thursday: I check 1 Test

Friday: Computer Science Friday.

Week of August 30 - September 3.

Monday: Answer and discuss Focus Question. 1.2.1 Review shadow positions, 1.2.2 Focus question, Step 4 discuss using sun tracker. Learn how to use a compass. Practice using a compass. Tape compass to sun tracker. Practice orienting compass. 1.2.10 Go outside and mark the tip of the Golf tee's shadow.

Tuesday: 1.2.13 Identify patterns, 1.2.14 Reproduce shadows with flashlights. 1.2.16 Replicate trackings. Vocabulary, Answer the focus question. 1.2.20-21 Read Changing Shadows in FOSS science resources. Use comprehension strategy.

Wednesday: 1.2.23 Response sheet: Inv. 1. 1.2.25 Share Notebook entries.

Thursday: Start at 1.3.13 -1.3.22 Do "Reading in Science Resources" pages 137-138, Read "Sunrise and Sunset". Answer Focus Question, 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Tuesday.

Friday: Computer Science Friday.

Week of August 23-27

Monday: Introduce Myself and go over Fire, Tornado and other various bathroom, drink, sanitizing and mask policies. Name Tent and padlock practice (locker organization) and money and valuable in lockers.

Tuesday: Create Notebooks, and discuss Science Expectations. Introduce Computers and FOSSweb login procedures.

Wednesday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 1-10. Shadows: Focus question, Shadow observations, Outdoor Safety rules, Trace shadows throughout the day.

Thursday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 11-17. Discuss shadow changes. Review vocabulary. Answer Focus question.

Friday: 

2020-2021

Week of June 1-3. 

Monday: Memorial Day

Tuesday: States of Matter and Changes in States of Matter

Wednesday: Build Rockets.

Thursday: Fly compressed air rockets. Have a great summer.

Week of May 24-28. 

Monday: Build black boxes. Answer focus question. Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question.

Tuesday: Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question. view on line activity- Black box.

Wednesday: Demonstrate drought stopper. Focus Question. Draw your model of the drought stopper. Reveal system. Answer focus question. Assess.

Thursday: Read "Beachcombing Science." Discuss the reading. Share the process used to create a model. 1. Observe 2, Create or construct, 3.Analyze, 4. Revise.

Friday: Focus question. Hot water bath investigation. Discuss the results of heating. Answer the focus question. 

Week of May 17-21.

Monday: Quizizz review for Mixtures and Solutions Investigation 1

Tuesday: Mixtures and Solutions Investigation 1 Test

Wednesday: Black box challenge. Draw the boxes contents. Create black box models.

Thursday: Collaborate with black boxes. Black box conferences with consensus. How could you improve models?

Friday: Build black boxes. Answer focus question. Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question.

Week of May 10-14.

Monday and Tuesday: Separating a dry mixture. Review plan to separate a dry mixture. Get materials and separate. Performance Assessment. Clean up and then answer focus question. Read taking mixtures apart. Watch video on "Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures." View online activities. Read "Science Practices" and "Engineering Practices". Fill in vocabulary and glossary.

Wednesday: Answer Focus Question 1.3 and Response Sheet 1

Thursday: Robotics: Coding for the Maze

Friday: Review for Test

Week of May 3-7.

Monday: Review mixture and solutions. Weigh 50 ml of water. Focus question. Figure out what happens to the water. Develop a model to explain what happens to the water. Answer focus question. Evaporate salt solution.

Tuesday: Observe evaporation. Introduce crystal. Review vocabulary. Support or refute claim. Read Mixtures. Use reading strategies.

Wednesday and Thursday: Separating a dry mixture. Review plan to separate a dry mixture. Get materials and separate. Performance Assessment. Clean up and then answer focus question.Read taking mixtures apart. Watch video on "Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures." View online activities. Read "Science Practices" and "Engineering Practices". Fill in vocabulary and glossary.

Friday: Robotics: Coding for the Maze

Week of April 26-30.

Monday: Introduce Chemical safety in the classroom. All students are required to use goggles or safety glasses during this module. Organize groups introduce chemicals.

Tuesday: Observe Gravel, Powder, and Salt and record their properties in Part 1 of sheet. Preview part 2, discuss and then add 50 mL of water to each cup. Define mixture. Focus Question. Separate mixtures: Screen, filter paper. Introduce solution. 

Wednesday: Review mixture and solutions. Weigh 50 ml of water. Focus question. Figure out what happens to the water. Develop a model to explain what happens to the water. Answer focus question. Evaporate salt solution.

Thursday: Observe evaporation. Introduce crystal. Review vocabulary. Support or refute claim. Read Mixtures. Use reading strategies.

Friday: Zoo Field Trip

Week of April 18-23

Monday: 

Tuesday: Review for test.

Wednesday: Kahoot/Quizizz

Thursday: Final Living Systems Test

Friday: Vex coding Maze

Week of April 5-9.

Monday: ISASP Science test.

Tuesday: Sense activities on pages 283-285. Introduce Adaptations. Read "Sensory Systems" on pages 62-64. Discuss. Read Animal Communication on pages 65-69. Do "Animal Communication" Review.

Wednesday: Review vocabulary. Answer Focus Question 4.2 and Response Sheet Investigation 4.

Thursday: Review central nervous system on page 295, Watch "Animal Behavior and Communication" video. Introduce Inherited traits.

Friday: Programming VEX robots.

Week of March 29 - April 2.

Monday: Review test, Introduce stimulus response. Read "Stimulus and Response in Humans" on pages 58 - 61. Watch "The Brain and Nervous System Video"

Tuesday: Do Falling Cup experiment,

Wednesday: Add to Glossary, review  vocabulary words. Answer Focus Question 4.1.

Thursday: Do ISASP review - Link.

Friday: No school.

Week of March 22-26.

Monday: Review vocabulary and Answer focus question. Read "Other Circulatory and Respiratory Systems" on pages 56-57 . Fill out a Box and T-chart on similarities and differences. Start filling out the study guide.

Tuesday: Go over Study Guide and Study for the test.

Wednesday: Science Review Kahoot or Quizizz

Thursday: Living Systems Science Test on Investigation 3.

Friday: Robotics disassemble and create an autobot.

Week of March 15-19.

Spring Break

Week of March 8-12.

Monday: Make a Heart Experiment

Tuesday: Add to Glossary, review heart vocabulary. Answer Focus Question 3.2 and Response Sheet 3.

Wednesday: Review Nutrient Transportation, Introduce the respiratory System. Read "The Human Respiratory System"on pages 54-55.  Watch 2 minute Respiration video. Answer The Human Respiratory System questions. 

Thursday: Introduce Vital Capacity, and do vital capacity video. Graph results.

Friday: Robotics Competition Day

Week of March 1-5.

Monday: Monitor wheat growth. Read " Plant Vascular Systems" on pages 36-42. View Plant Vascular System online activity. 

Tuesday: Read "The Story of Maple Syrup" on pages 43-47. Add to Glossary "Handout  page."  Watch "Plant Structure and Growth" Video.

Wednesday: Answer Focus Question 3.1. Introduce the human circulatory system.

Thursday: Watch Heart Video and Read "The Human Circulatory System" on pages 48-53.

Friday: Robotics

Week of February 22-26

Monday: Reader's Theater presentation.

Tuesday: Vex Robotics

Wednesday: Follow Part 1 of investigation 3: Plant vascular systems. on Pages 211-213.

Thursday: Read "Leaf Classification" on pages 34 and 35., Set up wheat seed chambers.

Friday: No School

Week of February 15 -19

Monday: No School

Tuesday: No School

Wednesday: Do Response sheet 2 and Fill Out investigation 2 study guide.

Thursday: Go over Study guide and Play Kahoot.

Friday: Test.

Week of February 8-12

Monday: Observe wheat experiment. Steps 12- 17 on pages 170 and 171. 

Tuesday: Follow Pages 177-180. Read "Getting Nutrients" Pages 27-31.

Wednesday: Watch Video on the Food Chain. Read "The Human Digestive System". Fill out Graphic organizer.

Thursday: Watch Digestive and Excretory Systems video. Add vocabulary to the glossary. Answer Focus Question 2.3.

Friday: Watch Hoot

Week of February 1-5

Monday: Fill in vocabulary for yeast experiment, Answer Focus Question 2-1. Introduce wheat seed experiment and what wheat would need to grow. Steps 1-5 on Pages 165 and 166. 

Tuesday: Plant wheat seeds. Read Producers and Fill out "anticipation Guide on page 17.

Friday: Observe wheat experiment. Steps 10 and 11 on page 169. 

Week of January 25-29

Monday:  Review Investigation 1 test.

Tuesday: Snow Day

Wednesday: Do yeast nutrition cookie experiment.

Thursday: Do yeast nutrition sugar and flour experiment.

Friday: Discuss yeast experiments, Read pages 21-22 and do Graphic organizer on Journal page 14.

Week of January 18-22

Monday: Discuss Decomposers and Create redworm habitat.

Tuesday: Read pages 18-20, Do Cause-effect organizer. Review for Icheck 1.

Wednesday: Kahoot

Thursday: Icheck 1 test.

Friday: Robotics Friday

Week of January 11-15.

Monday: Create a Kelp Forest Food Web. 

Tuesday: Create a Kelp Forest Food Web. Draw food web. Focus Question 1.3

Wednesday: Response sheet 1.3. Read "Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary". Watch "Web of Life, Life in the Sea."

Thursday:  Read "Comparing Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems." Vocabulary. Focus Question.

Friday: Snow day

Week of January 4-8.

Monday: Introduce System and Subsystem.

Tuesday: Read "Introductions to Systems" and create concept definition map.

Wednesday: Do Focus Question

Thursday: Watch "Physical Systems" chapters 1-5. Discuss video. Read "Is Earth a system? and do comprehension strategy. Look at woods food-web cards. Study organisms.

Friday: Use woods ecosystem cards to create a food chain and a food web. Read "The Biosphere" Vocabulary, Focus Question.

Week of December 21-25.

Monday: Robotics Challenge building.

Tuesday: Video

Week of December 14-18.

Monday:  Describe regional conditions. Read "Earth's Climates". Use FOSSweb Climate regions map. Answer the Focus question.

Tuesday: Read Global Climate Change." Watch climate change video. Review investigation 5. Start Module review.

Wednesday: Module review

Thursday: Final test.

Friday: Building Robots for the challenge

Week of December 7-11.

Monday: Water cycle focus question. Water planet discussion, globe activity, inventory water on Earth, discuss fresh water, and demonstrate water distribution.

Tuesday: Water-cycle activity. Notebook sheet 31. Discuss water cycle and refine. Complete sheet. Summarize water cycle.

Wednesday: Read "The Water Cycle." Watch the Water Cycle and do online water-cycle activity.  Answer focus question 5-3. 

Thursday: Read "Severe Weather". Discuss the reading.

Friday: Building Robots for the challenge

Week of November 30- December 4.

Monday: Do condensation experiment. Write focus question. Introduce water vapor and discuss where condensation occurs. Create condensation chamber.

Tuesday: Observe condensation chamber and answer questions. Create and observe ice and water system. Add salt to make ice even colder. Make observations. Answer focus question.

Wednesday: Vocabulary and Answer focus question. Preview " Condensation." Answer three questions about an image they find interesting and write then answers in their notebook. Read "Condensation" independently. Reread article. Share notebook entries. 

Thursday: Review Condensation. Focus question: How does water vapor get into the air? How can we investigate this? Create heating water demonstration. Review vocabulary and clean up Notebooks.

Friday: Building Robots for the challenge

Week of November 23-27

Monday:Introduce Solar Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Tuesday:Solar Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Wednesday: Solar Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Thursday: Thanksgiving vacation

Friday: Thanksgiving vacation

Week of November 16-20.

Monday:Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. 

Tuesday: Answer focus question. Read "Solar Technology"  Discuss reading. Start iCheck 4 review. 

Wednesday: Review Investigation 4, Kahoot 

Thursday: I check 4.

Friday: Building Robots for the challenge

Week of November 9-13

Monday: Answer focus question. Share answers Do Response sheet 22. Read "Wind and Convection" Use Reading comprehension strategy. Focus on diagrams. 

Tuesday: Read Wind Power. Redo Response sheet if necessary. Create an experiment to determine the best hot water heater.

Wednesday: Do hot water experiment. FIll in data sheet. Water-heater conference meetings. Fill out table and calculate the average.Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question.

Thursday: Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question. Read "Solar Technology"  Discuss reading. Start iCheck 4 review. 

Friday: Controlling Robots time trials

Week of November 2-6

Monday: Conduction: Review Solar Energy, Heat transfer by contact, Do energy transfer challenge: Option 2. Watch "Particles in Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Watch "Energy Transfer: Conduction"

Tuesday: Review conduction, Do virtual investigation "Aluminum and Steel Strips in Water". Write Focus question in Journals, "How does energy transfer to the air. Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Wednesday: Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Thursday: Introduce fluid. Cold water challenge. Discuss challenge. Demonstrate relative density. Focus question: What happens when a volume of fluid is warmed at the bottom? Introduce hot-water question. Notebook sheet 20 and then 21. 

Friday: No School - teach comp day

Week of October 26-30

Monday: Introduce Solar energy and earth materials. Focus Question: "What happens to earth materials when they are exposed to sunlight." Design Experiment together. Write procedure. Conduct experiment.

Tuesday: Graph and analyze data. Discuss graphs. Introduce radiation and energy transfer, Solar energy exposure, and uneven heating. Review vocabulary. Answer Focus question. Assess Graphs and Focus question. 

Wednesday: Review Vocabulary, Answer Focus Question, Assess graphs and Focus questions, Take 2 column notes Questions and Responses. Read "Uneven Heating." View online activities.

Thursday: Conduction: Review Solar Energy, Heat transfer by contact, Do energy transfer challenge: Option 2. Watch "Particles in Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Watch "Energy Transfer: Conduction"

Friday: Build Vex Robots

Week of October 19-23.

Monday: Go over Study guide for Investigation 3 

Tuesday: Play Kahoot review

Wednesday: Investigation 3 - I check 

Thursday: Review test and make corrections

Friday: Build Vex Robots

Week of October 12-16.

Monday and Tuesday: Write a brief description of the current weather. Share reports. Discuss forecasting. Write focus question " How do meteorologists measure and record weather variables? Introduce local weather report. Discuss variables in the local report. Introduce wireless weather station.

Wednesday: Introduce Weather Data sheet. Answer focus question. Read "Weather Instruments" pages 92 -94

Thursday: Review Investigation 3 about the atmosphere and weather. All about Meteorology Video Chapters 2,3,4,6,7,8,9, and 14.

Friday: Organize Vex Kits

Week of October 5 - 9.

Monday: Write 3 observations and 3 questions about air and syringes. Write (Compress -forcing something into a smaller area), and (pressure - push of air) into notebook index.

Tuesday: Create a model to explain what you have learned about air. Discuss matter and mass. Watch videos on air mass. Read and take notes from "What is air?"

Wednesday: Discuss the Atmosphere, Write the focus question. "What is Earth's atmosphere?" Watch atmosphere video. Read "Earth's Atmosphere" pages 85 - 91. Take notes on each layer. 

Thursday: When finished answer the five atmosphere questions. Discuss the five questions.

Friday: Organize Vex kits

Week of September 28 - October 2.

Monday: Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations.

Tuesday: Answer focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration.

Wednesday: Vocabulary, Read "Stargazing" and discuss the reading.

Thursday: Watch all about Stars video. Review for test.

Friday: Group Test 

Week of September 21-25.

Monday-Wednesday: Then sort other cards using planets. Fill out notebook sheet 9, Solar System Data, Group planets by composition. Discuss composition of planets. Introduce terrestrial planets and gas giant planets, Pluto, Eris, and Halley’s comet . Review vocabulary.

Thursday: Read “Exploring the Solar System.” Answer focus question. Explain orbit. Read “Why Doesn’t Earth Fly Off into Space?”. 

Friday: Do Response Sheet 2. 

Week of September 14-18

Monday: Observe the daytime moon, Go outdoors to view daytime moon. What did it look like? Moon calendar. Focus question. HOMEWORK-Night-Sky Log.

Tuesday: No school - Covid

Wednesday: Answer Focus question- Discuss Moon observations. Record moon data and vocabulary. Read "The Night Sky" and use 3-2-1 comprehension stategy. Discuss Reading. Study diagram. Read "Looking through Telescopes" Use summarizing chart as comprehension strategy. Discuss Reading.

Thursday: Read 33-42 on Earth and Sun stories. Answer FQ2.3.

Friday: Compare the size of the Earth to the Moon and Sun. Compare the distance from the Earth to the Moon and Sun. 

Week of September  7-11

Week of August 31 - September 4.

Monday: Answer and discuss Focus Question. 1.2.1 Review shadow positions, 1.2.2 Focus question, Step 4 discuss using sun tracker. Learn how to use a compass. Practice using a compass. Tape compass to sun tracker. Practice orienting compass. 1.2.10 Go outside and mark the tip of the Golf tee's shadow.

Tuesday: 1.2.13 Identify patterns, 1.2.14 Reproduce shadows with flashlights. 1.2.16 Replicate trackings. Vocabulary, Answer the focus question. 1.2.20-21 Read Changing Shadows in FOSS science resources. Use comprehension strategy.

Wednesday: 1.2.23 Response sheet: Inv. 1. 1.2.25 Share Notebook entries.

Thursday: Start at 1.3.13 -1.3.22 Do "Reading in Science Resources" pages 137-138, Read "Sunrise and Sunset". Answer Focus Question, 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Tuesday.

Friday: 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Thursday. 

Week of August 24-28.

Monday: Introduce Myself and go over Fire, Tornado and other various bathroom, drink, sanitizing and mask policies. Name Tent and padlock practice (locker organization) and money and valuable in lockers.

Tuesday: Create Notebooks, and discuss Science Expectations. Introduce Computers and FOSSweb login procedures.

Wednesday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 1-10. Shadows: Focus question, Shadow observations, Outdoor Safety rules, Trace shadows throughout the day.

Thursday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 11-17. Discuss shadow changes. Review vocabulary. Answer Focus question.

Friday: Answer and discuss Focus Question. 1.2.1 Review shadow positions, 1.2.2 Focus question, Step 4 discuss using sun tracker. Learn how to use a compass. Practice using a compass. Tape compass to sun tracker. Practice orienting compass. 1.2.10 Go outside and mark the tip of the Golf tee's shadow.

2019-2020

Week of May 25 

Focus question of the week: Which paper airplane design flies the farthest?

Use a family member, a book, or the internet to find different paper airplane designs. Make 4 different paper airplane designs and fly them to show which one flies the farthest. Remember a good controlled experiment will use multiple trials. Three tries for each plane.

Paper Airplane Design Link

Longest flying design search

Email me a picture or video of the best plane to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us  Tell how far it flew.

Have a great summer!

Week of 5/18

Read Pages “Concentrated Solutions” on pages 28-31 and  “The Bends”  on pages 42-46.

To read an assignment. Log in to www.FOSSweb.com. Username will be your school email. (example,  firstname_lastname@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us ) Password is the same as your computer login. Select Mixtures and Solutions module. If you need help logging in, email me. trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 

Focus Question of the week: Do all substances take the same amount of solute (powder that dissolves) to saturate a solution?

Epsom Salts video

Epsom salt video completed Watch both!

Answer Focus question and email answer to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 

Do Response Sheet 4 and email to Mr. Houck. trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us

Week of 5/11

Weekly video

Read “Liquid to Gas” on pages 23- 25 of Mixtures and solutions.

To read an assignment. Log in to www.FOSSweb.com. Username will be your school email. (example,  firstname_lastname@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us ) Password is the same as your computer login. Select Mixtures and Solutions module. If you need help logging in, email me. trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 

Make a weak kool-aid? Make strong kool-aid?

Concentration questions   

Focus Question of the week: Is there a limit to the amount of salt that will dissolve in 25ml of  water?  (answer after watching next video)

Experiment video. 

We made a solution because the salt dissolved in the water.  When a solid material is added to a solution until no more will dissolve, the solution is a saturated solution. Saturated mean it  cannot hold any more, just like a paper towel when you are soaking a spill, there is a certain time when the paper towel cannot hold any more water. In our experiment the water could not hold any more salt.

Saturated solution questions  Answer these questions and email answers to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us

Week of 5/4

Weekly video.

Email how we could test to see it black box has metal in it.

Read “Solid to Liquid” on pages 21 and 22 of Mixtures and solutions.

To read an assignment. Log in to www.FOSSweb.com. Username will be your school email. (example,  firstname_lastname@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us ) Password is the same as your computer login. Select Mixtures and Solutions module. If you need help logging in, email me. trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 

Melting/Freezing questions

Watch FOSSweb video - “Changes in Properties of Matter”  only Chapters 1-3.

To watch a video. Log in to www.FOSSweb.com. Username will be your school email. (example,  firstname_lastname@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us ) Password is the same as your computer login. Select Mixtures and Solutions module. If you need help logging in, email me. trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 

Focus question of the week - What is the difference between dissolving and melting? 

Week of 4/27

If you have not shared your original black box model on Flipgrid. Please do so right now.

Share your drought stopper model and explanation. ←Link

NEW Experiment Link: Dissolving or melting? Experiment Link

Email the answers to the questions to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us.

Watch this link again. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WA2B4-WqeDa7gCzPdlCSXCqEUoLEoLdT

Then look at all your friends Black box models. Here is the link Flipgrid Black box models

At the end of the week, Email me who you think had the best Black box model. trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 

Week of 4/20

Please watch this video Black box revision video and then share your original black box model on Flipgrid.

Watch this video Drought Stopper video  and draw a model (a picture that explains how something works or is built.

Email a picture of your Drought stopper model and written explanation of your model  to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us  If you have questions or  need more information email me.

Week of 4/13

Watch this link. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WA2B4-WqeDa7gCzPdlCSXCqEUoLEoLdT

Answer video question before proceeding.

Because of gravity.Gravity pulls the marble down and the surface is tilted so it goes diagonally down. 

Watch next video and and draw a model (a picture that explains how something works or is built.

Video link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_QVS4mxPQyIT82iWlKJvC4S-B7DO64p_

Email a picture of your Black Box A model to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 

If you have questions or  need more information email me.

Do these things when you get time.

Read "Science Practices" and "Engineering Practices" on pages 14 and 15

Read "The Story of Salt"  on page 13, and "Extracts" on pages 16 and 17.

Coffee is an __________________.

Salt water is a ______________. Why?

Email your answers to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us 

Week of April 6.

 Read "Taking Mixtures Apart" on pages 8-12. 

Have you figured out how to separate Friday's mixture?  Explain how.

What properties can be used to separate mixtures?

Email the answers to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us

Watch Chapters 4, 5, and 6 from Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures. Should take about 7 minutes.

Do online activities "Separating Mixtures" and "Virtual Investigation: Separating Mixtures"

Stop here for this week!

Week of April 1-3

Wednesday 4/1: A mixture is two or more things put together. No fooling. 

Make a DRY mixture of three ingredients. Use salt as one of your ingredients. The other 

Two ingredients should be bigger and not the same size. Take a picture of your mixture 

and email it to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us .

Thursday 4/2: Think of ways to separate your mixture back into their original pure 

Substances.

Separate the mixture.

Friday 4/3: Here is another mixture to try. 

 Can you separate this?

How did you do it?

Email your answers to trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us .

Week of March 24-31.

Log in to www.FOSSweb.com.

Username will be your school email. (example,  firstname_lastname@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us)

Password is the same as your computer login. If you need help logging in, email me.

trev_houck@s-hamilton.k12.ia.us

Everything below is in the Living Systems module.

Tuesday 3/24: Watch the video on “Marine Ecosystems” on FOSSweb.

Wednesday 3/25: Read “Stimulus and Response in Humans” on pages 58-61 of Living Systems book on FOSSweb.

Thursday 3/26: Read “Sensory Systems” on pages 62-64 of Living Systems book on FOSSweb. Answer the question on page 64 and email to trev_houck@s-hamiton.k12.ia.us.

Friday 3/27: Read “Animal Communication” on pages 65-69 of Living Systems book on FOSSweb. 

Monday 3/30: Read ”Monarch Migration” on pages 70-73 of Living Systems book on FOSSweb. Answer the questions on page 73 and email to trev_houck@s-hamiton.k12.ia.us.

Tuesday 3/31: Read ”North Atlantic Ocean Ecosystem” on pages 74-80 of Living Systems book on FOSSweb.

Week of March  16-20.

Spring Break

Monday: Watch chapters 8 and 9 of "Animal Behaviors" Discuss video. Introduce "inherited traits. Add vocabulary. Answer focus question. Read "Monarch Migration." DIscuss "Monarch migration".

Tuesday: Watch chapter 5 "Bugs" Review  "Redworm habitat." Dismantle "redworm habitats" Answer investigation 1 Part 4 Focus Question.

Wednesday: View " Marine ecosystem"  and take notes. Discuss video and answer focus question..

Thursday: Read "North American Ocean Ecosystem" Discuss and Begin review.

Friday: Fill out study guide

Week of March 9-13.

Monday: Do Falling Cup experiment.

Tuesday: Review vocabulary. Answer focus question. Practice and try again. Do Response Timer activity on FOSSweb.

Wednesday: Show animal and pelts and discuss where they would hide or how they would help them. Read "Sensory Systems" and do Graphic organizer on page 40.

Thursday: Discuss "Sensory Systems", Read "Animal Communication" and take notes and answer Page 41, Answer Focus question 4.2 on page 39.

Friday: Vocabulary, Response Sheet 4, Watch behavior video, Chapters, 2,4-6,8, and 9.

Week of March 2-6.

Monday: Review for test. Fill out study guide. Play Quizizz

Tuesday: Living Systems Investigation 3 test

Wednesday: Review test quickly, Introduce behaviors and stimulus and response. Read "Stimulus and Response in Humans" Create flow chart to track relationships.

Thursday: View " Chapters 1-4 of "The Brain and Nervous Systems." Introduce  and do falling cup experiment. Do foot experiment.

Friday: Review vocabulary. Answer focus question. Practice and try again. Do Response Timer activity on FOSSweb.

Week of February 24-28.

Monday: Make a Circulatory System model.

Tuesday: Discuss circulatory system. Write circulatory system vocabulary. Answer Focus Question 3.2 on page 28.

Wednesday: Do Response Sheet 3 and Introduce the Respiratory System. Read "The  Human Respiratory System. Do questions on page 32.

Thursday: Watch chapter 3 video on respiration. Discuss vital capacity. Do Vital capacity experiment. Graph results.

 Friday: Vocabulary, Focus Question 3.3, Read "Other Circulatory and Respiratory Systems" and do Box and T chart. Fill out study guide.

Week of February 17-21.

Monday: Read pages 34-35, "Leaf Classification. Make Wheat seed chamber.

Tuesday: Read pages 36-42 "Plant Vascular System" and pages 43-47,  "The Making of Maple Syrup" Do a T-chart for the "Plant Vascular System."

Wednesday: Discuss the "Plant Vascular System" and "The Making of Maple Syrup." Add to Glossary.

Thursday: Answer Focus Question 3.1, 

Friday: Discuss the Circulatory System. Watch Circulatory System video chapter 5. Make a Circulatory System model.

Week of February 10-14.

Monday: Fill out Study Guide

Tuesday: Kahoot

Wednesday: Test

Thursday: Snow Day

Friday: Review test. Discuss Leaves and classification.

Week Of February 3-7.

Week of January 27-31.

Week of January 20-24.

Monday: Discuss Decomposers and Create redworm habitat.

Tuesday: Read pages 18-20, Do Cause-effect organizer. Review for Icheck 1.

Wednesday: Kahoot

Thursday: Icheck 1 test.

Friday: Yeast Nutrition investigation.

Week of January 13-17.

Monday: Create a Kelp Forest Food Web. 

Tuesday: Create a Kelp Forest Food Web. Draw food web. Focus Question 1.3

Wednesday: Response sheet 1.3. Read "Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary". Watch "Web of Life, Life in the Sea."

Thursday:  Read "Comparing Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems." Vocabulary. Focus Question.

Friday: Snow day

Week of January 6-10.

Monday: Introduce System and Subsystem.

Tuesday: Read "Introductions to Systems" and create concept definition map.

Wednesday: Do Focus Question

Thursday: Watch "Physical Systems" chapters 1-5. Discuss video. Read "Is Earth a system? and do comprehension strategy. Look at woods food-web cards. Study organisms.

Friday: Use woods ecosystem cards to create a food chain and a food web. Read "The Biosphere" Vocabulary, Focus Question.

Week of December 16-20.

Week of December 9-13.

Monday: Read "The Water Cycle." Watch the Water Cycle and do online water-cycle activity. Read "Severe Weather". Discuss the reading.

Tuesday:  Describe regional conditions. Read "Earth's Climates". Use FOSSweb Climate regions map. Answer the Focus question.

Wednesday: Read Global Climate Change." Watch climate change video. Review investigation 5. Start Module review.

Thursday: Module review

Friday: Final test.

Week of December 2-6

Monday: Vocabulary and Answer focus question. Preview " Condensation." Answer three questions about an image they find interesting and write then answers in their notebook. Read "Condensation" independently. Reread article. Share notebook entries. 

Tuesday: Review Condensation. Focus question: How does water vapor get into the air? How can we investigate this? Create heating water demonstration. Review vocabulary and clean up Notebooks.

Wednesday: Review the evaporation setup. Measure and discuss results. Introduce evaporation. Review vocabulary. Evaporate and evaporation. Answer focus question. Fill out Response Sheet-Investigation 5. 

Thursday: Water cycle focus question. Water planet discussion, globe activity, inventory water on Earth, discuss fresh water, and demonstrate water distribution.

Friday: Water-cycle activity. Notebook sheet 31. Discuss water cycle and refine. Complete sheet. Summarize water cycle. Answer focus question.

Week of November 25-29

Monday: Do condensation experiment. Write focus question. Introduce water vapor and discuss where condensation occurs. Create condensation chamber.

Tuesday and Wednesday: Observe condensation chamber and answer questions. Create and observe ice and water system. Add salt to make ice even colder. Make observations. Answer focus question.

Week of November 18-22.

Monday: Review Investigation 4- 

Tuesday: I check 4.

Wednesday: Go over Icheck 4.

Thursday: Introduce Solar Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Friday: Solar Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Week of November 11-15.

Monday Discuss results. View Convection. Introduce convection currents. Review vocabulary using Cloze procedure. 

Tuesday: Answer focus question. Share answers Do Response sheet 22. Read "Wind and Convection" Use Reading comprehension strategy. Focus on diagrams. 

Wednesday: Read Wind Power. Redo Response sheet if necessary. Create an experiment to determine the best hot water heater.

Thursday: Do hot water experiment. FIll in data sheet. Water-heater conference meetings. Fill out table and calculate the average.Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question.

Friday: Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question. Read "Solar Technology"  Discuss reading. Start iCheck 4 review. 

Week of November 4-8.

Monday: Conduction: Review Solar Energy, Heat transfer by contact, Do energy transfer challenge: Option 2. Watch "Particles in Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Watch "Energy Transfer: Conduction"

Tuesday: Review conduction, Do virtual investigation "Aluminum and Steel Strips in Water". Write Focus question in Journals, "How does energy transfer to the air. Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Wednesday: Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Thursday and Friday: Introduce fluid. Cold water challenge. Discuss challenge. Demonstrate relative density. Focus question: What happens when a volume of fluid is warmed at the bottom? Introduce hot-water question. Notebook sheet 20 and then 21. 

Week of October 28- November 1.

Monday: Review test- Makey- Makey.

Tuesday: Introduce Solar energy and earth materials. Focus Question: "What happens to earth materials when they are exposed to sunlight." Design Experiment together. Write procedure. Conduct experiment.

Wednesday: Graph and analyze data. Discuss graphs. Introduce radiation and energy transfer, Solar energy exposure, and uneven heating. Review vocabulary. Answer Focus question. Assess Graphs and Focus question. 

Thursday: Review Vocabulary, Answer Focus Question, Assess graphs and Focus questions, Take 2 column notes Questions and Responses. Read "Uneven Heating." View online activities.

Friday: Conduction: Review Solar Energy, Heat transfer by contact, Do energy transfer challenge: Option 2. Watch "Particles in Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Watch "Energy Transfer: Conduction"

Week of October 21-25.

Monday:  Answer focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration.

Tuesday:  Vocabulary, Read "Stargazing" and discuss the reading.

Wednesday: Watch "All about Stars", Fill out notebook sheet 12 to review and then discuss. Read "Star Scientists" and create a short presentation on one scientists.

Thursday: Present Star Scientists. Review for I-check. Read "Our Galaxy" and annotate using self stick notes.

Friday: I-check.

Week of October  14-18.

Monday: Then sort other cards using planets. Fill out notebook sheet 9, Solar System Data, Group planets by composition. Discuss composition of planets. Introduce terrestrial planets and gas giant planets, Pluto, Eris, and Halley’s comet . Review vocabulary.

Tuesday: Read “Exploring the Solar System.” Answer focus question. Explain orbit. Read “Why Doesn’t Earth Fly Off into Space?”. Do Response Sheet 2.

Wednesday: Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations.

Thursday: Answer focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration.

Friday: Vocabulary, Read "Stargazing" and discuss the reading.

Week of October  7-11.

Monday: Introduce the Sun model, Answer focus question. Read “Apollo 11 Space Mission”.

Tuesday: Read “How Did Earth’s Moon Form?” Share notebook entries.

Wednesday: No School - Teacher inservice.

Thursday and Friday: Introduce the solar system cards challenge. Sort cards by pictures. Discuss categories. Review Orbit. Sort planets by distance from the sun. Then sort other cards using planets. Fill out notebook sheet 9, Solar System Data, Group planets by composition. Discuss composition of planets. Introduce terrestrial planets and gas giant planets, Pluto, Eris, and Halley’s comet . Review vocabulary.

Week of September 30 - Oct 4.

Monday:  Review  - Investigation 3 - I check 

Tuesday: Observe the daytime moon, Go outdoors to view daytime moon. What did it look like? Moon calendar. Focus question. HOMEWORK-Night-Sky Log.

Wednesday: Answer Focus question- Discuss Moon observations. Record moon data and vocabulary. Read "The Night Sky" and use 3-2-1 comprehension stategy. Discuss Reading. Study diagram. Read "Looking through Telescopes" Use summarizing chart as comprehension strategy. Discuss Reading.

Thursday: Update moon calendar. Focus Question, Introduce and construct Earth/Moon models. Introduce Sun model. Answer the focus question.

Friday: Read "Apollo 11 Space Mission", Discuss the reading. Read "How did the Earth's Moon Form?" Discuss the reading. Write a reflection about what you learned from the reading in your notebook.

Week of September 23-27.

Monday: Write a brief discription of the current weather. Share reports. Discuss forecasting. Write focus question " How do meteorologists measure and record weather variables? Introduce local weather report. Discuss variables in the local report. Introduce wireless weather station.

Tuesday: Introduce Weather Data sheet. Answer focus question. Read "Weather Instruments" pages 92 -94

Wednesday and Thursday: Review Investigation 3 about the atmosphere and weather. All about Meteorology Video Chapters 2,3,4,6,7,8,9, and 14.

Friday: Investigation 3 - I check 

Week of September 16-20.

Monday: Create a model to explain what you have learned about air. Discuss matter and mass. Watch videos on air mass. Read and take notes from "What is air?"

Tuesday: Discuss the Atmosphere, Write the focus question. "What is Earth's atmosphere?" Watch atmosphere video. Read "Earth's Atmosphere" pages 85 - 91. Take notes on each layer. 

Wednesday: When finished answer the five atmosphere questions. Discuss the five questions.

Thursday: Write a brief discription of the current weather. Share reports. Discuss forecasting. Write focus question " How do meteorologists measure and record weather variables? Introduce local weather report. Discuss variables in the local report. Introduce wireless weather station.

Friday: Introduce Weather Data sheet. Answer focus question. Read "Weather Instruments" pages 92 -94

Week of September 9-13

Monday: Read "Sunrise and Sunset". Answer Focus Question, 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Tuesday. .

Tuesday: Fill out study guide and play Kahoot.

Wednesday: Assessment I-check 1

Thursday: Start Moon observations.  Go over Science I check. Begin Air experiments

Friday: Write 3 observations and 3 questions about air and syringes. Write (Compress -forcing something into a smaller area), and (pressure - push of air) into notebook index.

Week of September 2-6

Monday: Labor Day

Tuesday: 1.2.23 Response sheet: Inv. 1. View online activities, 1.2.25 Share Notebook entries.

Wednesday: Start at 1.3.13 -1.3.22 Do "Reading in Science Resources" pages 137-138, Read "Sunrise and Sunset". Answer Focus Question, 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Tuesday. .

Thursday: 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Thursday. 

Friday: Assessment I-check

Week of August 26-30.

Monday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 1-10. Shadows: Focus question, Shadow observations, Outdoor Safety rules, Trace shadows throughout the day.

Tuesday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 11-17. Discuss shadow changes. Review vocabulary. Answer Focus question.

Wednesday: Answer and discuss Focus Question. 1.2.1 Review shadow positions, 1.2.2 Focus question, Step 4 discuss using sun tracker. Learn how to use a compass. Practice using a compass. Tape compass to sun tracker. Practice orienting compass. 1.2.10 Go outside and mark the tip of the Golf tee's shadow.

Thursday: 1.2.13 Identify patterns, 1.2.14 Reproduce shadows with flashlights. 1.2.16 Replicate trackings. Vocabulary, Answer the focus question. 1.2.20-21 Read Changing Shadows in FOSS science resources. Use comprehension strategy.

Friday: 1.2.23 Response sheet: Inv. 1. View online activities, 1.2.25 Share Notebook entries.

Week of August 19-23.

Monday:

Tuesday: 

Wednesday:

Thursday: Back to School Night 

Friday: Introduce Myself and go over Fire, Tornado and other various policies. Create Notebooks, and discuss Science Expectations.

2018-2019

Week of April 1-5.

Monday: Present plan. Read "Drinking Ocean Water and 

Tuesday: Read "Creative Solutions" Review for Icheck 4

Wednesday: Icheck 4.

Thursday: ISASP practice test tutorial.

Friday: Review Icheck 4, Do Fizz quiz chemical reactions.

Week of March 25-29.

Monday: Finish Mystery Chemical investigation. Try to identify mystery chemical based on evidence.

Tuesday: Observe Evaporated solutions. Read "A sweet solution." and "Sour Power" 

Wednesday: What's in your water experiment.

Thursday and Friday: Read "East Bay Academy for Young Scientists" Focus Question and Start plan to remove 50 grams of salt from 1000 mL of water. Present plan. 

Wednesday: Read "Drinking Ocean Water and "Creative Solutions" Review for Icheck 4

Thursday: Icheck 4.

Friday: Review Icheck 4, Do Fizz quiz chemical reactions.

Week of March 18-22. 

Springbreak

Week of March 11-15.

Monday: Find out how much epsom salt it takes to saturate a 50 ml of water.

Tuesday: Finish Epsom salt experiment and Answer Response Sheet 4.

Wednesday: Plan Mystery Chemical investigation. 

Thurday: Start Mystery Chemical investigation.

Friday: Finish Mystery Chemical investigation. Try to identify mystery chemical based on evidence.

Wednesday: Observe Evaporated solutions. Read "A sweet solution." and "Sour Power" 

Thursday: What's in your water experiment.

Week of March 4-8.

Monday: Icheck 3 test

Tuesday: Review I check 3

Wednesday:  Create a saturated solution experiment.

Thursday: Finish salt solution experiment. Answer focus question. Read "The Bends" and Fill out Graphic organizer.

Friday: Epsom salts Saturation investigation. Answer focus question and response sheet- investigation 4. Have a tea argument.

Week of February 25- March 1.

Monday: No School

Tuesday: 

Wednesday:

Thursday: Study Guide for Icheck 3.

Friday: Finish Reviewing for Icheck 3. Kahoot to review

Week of February 18-22.

Monday: Read "The Air". Create Circle map. View online activities.

Tuesday: Read "The Air" and "Famous Scientists".

Wednesday and Thursday: Introduce density. Layering Activity. Answer Focus question. Watch "Why are Oceans Salty" video. Read "Carbon Dioxide in the Air". Review for I-check.

Friday: 

Week of February 11-15.

Monday: Soft drink experiment. Notebook sheet 9, Focus question. Introduce concentration.Answer focus question.

Tuesday: Read "Solutions Up Close" using reading comprehension strategy. Online activity "Tutorial: Conservation of Mass."

Wednesday and Thursday: Review Concentration. Focus question. Salt concentration investigation. Answer Vocabulary and Focus question. Response Sheet - Investigation 3. Read "Concentrated Solutions" and fill in concept map.

Friday: Mystery Solutions investigation. Answer Focus question.

Week of February 4-8.

Monday: Read "Solid to Liquid" using cause/effect 2 column notes. Discuss. Video "Changes in Properties of Matter" Assess progress - Response Sheet - Investigation 2.

Tuesday: Read "Liquid and Gas Changes." Discuss. Review Investigation 2. 

Wednesday: I-Check 2

Thursday: Soft drink experiment. Notebook sheet 9, Focus question. Introduce concentration.Answer focus question.

Friday: Read "Solutions Up Close" using reading comprehension strategy. Online activity "Tutorial: Conservation of Mass"

Week of January 28-February 1.

Monday: Read "Beachcombing Science." Discuss the reading. Share the process used to create a model. 1. Observe 2, Create or construct, 3.Analyze, 4. Revise.

Tuesday: Focus question. Hot water bath investigation. Discuss the results of heating. Answer the focus question. 

Wednesday: Read "Solid to Liquid" using cause/effect 2 column notes. Discuss. Video "Changes in Properties of Matter" Assess progress - Response Sheet - Investigation 2.

Thursday: Read "Liquid and Gas Changes." Discuss. Review Investigation 2. 

Friday: I-Check

Week of January 21-25.

Monday: Build black boxes.

Tuesday: Answer focus question. Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question. view on line activity- Black box.

Wednesday: Demonstrate drought stopper. Focus Question. Draw your model of the drought stopper. Reveal system. Answer focus question. Assess.

Thursday: Read "Beachcombing Science." Discuss the reading. Share the process used to create a model. 1. Observe 2, Create or construct, 3.Analyze, 4. Revise.

Friday: Focus question. Hot water bath investigation. Discuss the results of heating. Answer the focus question. 

Week of January 14-18.

Monday: I-Check 1 test.

Tuesday: Sewing 101

Wednesday: Black box challenge. Draw the boxes contents. Create black box models.

Thursday: Collaborate with black boxes. Black box conferences with consensus. How could you improve models?

Friday: Build black boxes. Answer focus question. Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question.

Week of January 7-11.

Monday and Tuesday: Separating a dry mixture. Review plan to separate a dry mixture. Get materials and separate. Performance Assessment. Clean up and then answer focus question. Read taking mixtures apart. Watch video on "Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures." View online activities. Read "Science Practices" and "Engineering Practices". Fill in vocabulary and glossary.

Wednesday: Outdoor solutions activity and Review for i-Check 1.

Thursday; I-Check 1 test.

Friday: Black box challenge. Draw the boxes contents. Create black box models.

Week of December 31 - January 4. 

Monday: Vacation

Tuesday: New Years Day - No School

Wednesday: Teacher inservice - No School

Thursday : Observe evaporation. Introduce crystal. Review vocabulary. Support or refute claim. Read Mixtures. Use reading strategies.

Friday: Separating a dry mixture. Develop a plan to separate a dry mixture. Get materials.

Week of December 17-21.

Monday: Solar Cooker/Heater challenge. Put together Mixtures and Solution notebooks.

Tuesday: Introduce Chemical safety in the classroom. All students are required to use goggles or safety glasses during this module. Organize groups introduce chemicals and disassemble cooker/heaters in needed.

Wednesday: Observe Gravel, Powder, and Salt and record their properties in Part 1 of sheet. Preview part 2, discuss and then add 50 mL of water to each cup. Define mixture. Focus Question. Separate mixtures: Screen, filter paper. Introduce solution. 

Thursday: Review mixture and solutions. Weigh 50 ml of water. Focus question. Figure out what happens to the water. Develop a model to explain what happens to the water. Answer focus question. Evaporate salt solution.

Friday: Jeopardy.

Week of December 10-14.

Monday: Earth and Sun Posttest

Tuesday: Introduce Solar Cooker or Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Wednesday: Solar Cooker or Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Thursday: Solar Cooker or Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Friday: Solar Cooker or Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Week of December 3-7.

Monday: Read "The Water Cycle." Watch the Water Cycle and do online water-cycle activity. Read "Severe Weather". Discuss the reading.

Tuesday: Read "Severe Weather" and Discuss. 

Wednesday: Describe regional conditions. Read "Earth's Climates". Use FOSSweb Climate regions map. Answer the Focus question.

Thursday: Read Global Climate Change." Watch climate change video. Review investigation 5. Start Module review.

Friday: Module review

Week of November 26-30.

Monday: Vocabulary and Answer focus question. Preview " Condensation." Answer three questions about an image they find interesting and write then answers in their notebook. Read "Condensation" independently. Reread article. Share notebook entries. 

Tuesday: Review Condensation. Focus question: How does water vapor get into the air? How can we investigate this? Create heating water demonstration. Review vocabulary and clean up Notebooks.

Wednesday: Review the evaporation setup. Measure and discuss results. Introduce evaporation. Review vocabulary. Evaporate and evaporation. Answer focus question. Fill out Response Sheet-Investigation 5. 

Thursday: Water cycle focus question. Water planet discussion, globe activity, inventory water on Earth, discuss fresh water, and demonstrate water distribution.

Friday: Water-cycle activity. Notebook sheet 31. Discuss water cycle and refine. Complete sheet. Summarize water cycle. Answer focus question.

Week of November 19-23.

Monday: Do condensation experiment. Write focus question. Introduce water vapor and discuss where condensation occurs. Create condensation chamber.

Tuesday and Wednesday: Observe condensation chamber and answer questions. Create and observe ice and water system. Add salt to make ice even colder. Make observations. Answer focus question.

Week of November 12-16.

Monday: Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question. Read "Solar Technology" Discuss reading. 

Tuesday: Review Investigation 4- 

Wednesday: I check 4.

Thursday: Go over Icheck 4.

Friday: Math extension and Makey-Makey

Week of November 5-9

Monday and Tuesday: Read "Wind and Convection" Use Reading comprehension strategy. Focus on diagrams. Read Wind Power. Redo Response sheet if necessary.

Wednesday: Create an experiment to determine the best hot water heater.

Thursday: Do hot water experiment. FIll in data sheet. Water-heater conference meetings. Fill out table and calculate the average.Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question.

Friday: No School

Week of October 29-November 2.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. : Introduce fluid. Cold water challenge. Discuss challenge. Demonstrate relative density. Focus question: What happens when a volume of fluid is warmed at the bottom? Introduce hot-water question. Notebook sheet 20 and then 21. Discuss results. View Convection. Introduce convection currents. Review vocabulary using Cloze procedure. Answer focus question. Share answers Do response sheet 22.

Week of October 22-26.

Monday: Review Vocabulary, Answer Focus Question, Assess graphs and Focus questions, Take 2 column notes Questions and Responses. Read "Uneven Heating." View online activities.

Tuesday: Conduction: Review Solar Energy, Heat transfer by contact, Do energy transfer challenge: Option 2. Watch "Particles in Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Watch "Energy Transfer: Conduction"

Wednesday: Review conduction, Do virtual investigation "Aluminum and Steel Strips in Water". Write Focus question in Journals, "How does energy transfer to the air. Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Thursday: Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Friday: Makey - Makey

Week of October 15-19.

Monday: Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations. Read 66-76.

Tuesday: Present Star Scientists. Review for I-check. Read "Our Galaxy" on pages 77-80.

Wednesday: Icheck 2.

Thursday: Introduce Solar energy and earth materials. Focus Question: "What happens to earth materials when they are exposed to sunlight." Design Experiment together. Write procedure. Conduct experiment.

Friday: Graph and analyze data. Discuss graphs. Introduce radiation and energy transfer, Solar energy exposure, and uneven heating. Review vocabulary. Answer Focus question. Assess Graphs and Focus question. 

Week of October 8-12.

Monday: Fill out notebook sheet 9, Solar System Data, Group planets by composition. Discuss composition of planets. Introduce terrestrial planets and gas giant planets, Pluto, Eris, and Halley’s comet . Review vocabulary.

Tuesday: Read “Exploring the Solar System.” Answer focus question. Explain orbit. Read “Why Doesn’t Earth Fly Off into Space?”. Do Response Sheet 2-4.

Wednesday: Inservice.

Thursday: Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations.

Friday: Present Star Scientists. Review for I-check. Read "Our Galaxy" and annotate using self stick notes.

Week of October 1-5.

Monday: Read "Apollo 11 Space Mission", Discuss the reading. Read "How did the Earth's Moon Form?" Discuss the reading. Write a reflection about what you learned from the reading in your notebook. 

Tuesday and Wednesday: Introduce the solar system cards challenge. Sort cards by pictures. Discuss categories. Review Orbit. Sort planets by distance from the sun. Then sort other cards using planets. Fill out notebook sheet 9, Solar System Data, Group planets by composition. Discuss composition of planets. Introduce terrestrial planets and gas giant planets, Pluto, Eris, and Halley’s comet . Review vocabulary.

Thursday: Read “Exploring the Solar System.” Answer focus question. Explain orbit. Read “Why Doesn’t Earth Fly Off into Space?”. Do Response Sheet 2-4.

Friday: Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations.

Week of September 24-28.

Monday: Investigation 3 - I check 

Tuesday: Observe the daytime moon, Go outdoors to view daytime moon. What did it look like? Moon calendar. Focus question. HOMEWORK-Night-Sky Log.

Wednesday: Answer Focus question- Discuss Moon observations. Record moon data and vocabulary. Read "The Night Sky" and use 3-2-1 comprehension stategy. Discuss Reading. Study diagram. Read "Looking through Telescopes" Use summarizing chart as comprehension strategy. Discuss Reading.

Thursday: Update moon calendar. Focus Question, Introduce and construct Earth/Moon models. Introduce Sun model. Answer the focus question.

Friday: Read "Apollo 11 Space Mission", Discuss the reading. Read "How did the Earth's Moon Form?" Discuss the reading. Write a reflection about what you learned from the reading in your notebook.

Week of September 17-21.

Monday: When finished answer the five atmosphere questions. Discuss the five questions.

Tuesday: Write a brief discription of the current weather. Share reports. Discuss forecasting. Write focus question " How do meteorologists measure and record weather variables? Introduce local weather report. Discuss variables in the local report. Introduce wireless weather station.

Wednesday: Introduce Weather Data sheet. Answer focus question. Read "Weather Instruments" pages 92 -94

Thursday and Friday: Review Investigation 3 about the atmosphere and weather. All about Meteorology Video Chapters 2,3,4,6,7,8,9, and 14.

Week of September 10-14.

Monday: Go over Science I check. 

Tuesday: Focus Question "What is Air?"Investigation 3.1.1 - 3.1.17, Introduce syringes, notebook sheet 13 Air investigations. Assess investigations. Share observations. Introduce compress and pressure. Clean up. 

Wednesday: Write 3 observations and 3 questions about air and syringes. Write (Compress -forcing something into a smaller area), and (pressure - push of air) into notebook index.

Thursday: Create a model to explain what you have learned about air. Discuss matter and mass. Watch videos on air mass. Read and take notes from "What is air?"

Friday: Discuss the Atmosphere, Write the focus question. "What is Earth's atmosphere?" Watch atmosphere video. Read "Earth's Atmosphere" pages 85 - 91. Take notes on each layer. 

Week of September 3-7.

Monday: Labor day.

Tuesday: Start at 1.3.13 -1.3.22 Do "Reading in Science Resources" pages 137-138, Read "Sunrise and Sunset". Answer Focus Question, 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Tuesday. .

Wednesday: 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Thursday. 

Thursday: Assessment I-check

Friday: Focus Question "What is Air?"Investigation 3.1.1 - 3.1.17, Introduce syringes, notebook sheet 13 Air investigations. Assess investigations. Share observations. Introduce compress and pressure. Clean up. 

Week of August 27-31.

Monday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 1-10. Shadows: Focus question, Shadow observations, Outdoor Safety rules, Trace shadows throughout the day.

Tuesday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 11-17. Discuss shadow changes. Review vocabulary. Answer Focus question.

Wednesday: Answer and discuss Focus Question. 1.2.1 Review shadow positions, 1.2.2 Focus question, Step 4 discuss using sun tracker. Learn how to use a compass. Practice using a compass. Tape compass to sun tracker. Practice orienting compass. 1.2.10 Go outside and mark the tip of the Golf tee's shadow.

Thursday: 1.2.13 Identify patterns, 1.2.14 Reproduce shadows with flashlights. 1.2.16 Replicate trackings. Vocabulary, Answer the focus question. 1.2.20-21 Read Changing Shadows in FOSS science resources. Use comprehension strategy.

Friday: 1.2.23 Response sheet: Inv. 1. View online activities, 1.2.25 Share Notebook entries.

Week of August 20-24.

Monday:

Tuesday: 

Wednesday: Back to School Night

Thursday: Introduce Myself and go over Fire, Tornado and other various policies. Create Notebooks, and discuss Science Expectations.

Friday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 1-10. Shadows: Focus question, Shadow observations, Outdoor Safety rules, Trace shadows throughout the day.

2017-2018

Week of April 30 - May 4.

Monday: Review for Icheck 1, Start test.

Tuesday: Icheck 1 test.

Wednesday: Ag Day

Thursday: Yeast Nutrition investigation.

Friday: Read "There's yeast in my bread!" Use comprehension strategy. Review Vocabulary. Answer focus question.

Week of April 23-27.

Monday: Watch "Physical Systems" chapters 1-5. Discuss video. Read "Is Earth a system? and do comprehension strategy. Look at woods food-web cards. Study organisms.

Tuesday: Use woods ecosystem cards to create a food chain and a food web. Read "The Biosphere" Vocabulary

Wednesday: Create a Kelp Forest Food Web. 

Thursday: Focus Question 1.3 and Response sheet 1.3. Read "Monterey Bay National Marine Sancuary". Watch "Web of Life, Life in the Sea." Read "Comparing Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems." Vocabulary.

Friday: Discuss Decomposers and Create redworm habitat.

Week of April 16-20.

Monday: Review Mixtures and Solutions test and reteach problem areas.

Tuesday: Introduce System and Subsystem

Wednesday: Snow Day

Thursday: Introduce System and Subsystem

Friday: Read "Introductions to Systems" and create concept definition map.

Week of April 9-13.

Monday: Maze Challenge and Sensor investigations

Tuesday: Investigate loops and count.

Wednesday: Maze challenge

Thursday: Line Following

Friday: Continue Following - Golf challenge Extra credit.

Week of April 2-6.

Monday: Learn Basic Lego Robotics Programing using Tutorial.

Tuesday: Continue Lego Programming and Begin Lego Challenge.

Wednesday: Continue Lego Programming and Lego Challenge.

Thursday: Maze Challenge

Friday: Maze Challenge and Sensor investigations

Week of March 26-30.

Monday: Finish Zip in a bag investigation. Watch videos.

Tuesday: Review for posttest.

Wednesday: Mixtures and Solutions Posttest.

Thursday: Begin Learn Basic Lego Robotics Programing using Tutorial.

Friday: No School

Week of March 19-23.

Monday: Discuss evidence of a chemical reaction. Answer focus question: Fizz quiz 1.

Tuesday: Read Ask a chemist. Do 3,2,1. Create a plan to determine the products of a Calcium chloride and baking soda investigation.

Wednesday: Conduct filtering and evaporation investigation. Read "When Substances Change."

Thursday:Test filtered material. Compare evaporated materials to other crystals. Do Response sheet Fizz quiz. Add vocabulary.

Friday: Fizz quiz in a zip bag.

Week of March 11-16.

Spring Break

Week of March 5-9.

Monday and Tuesday: Read "East Bay Academy for Young Scientists" Focus Question and Start plan to remove 50 grams of salt from 1000 mL of water. Present plan. 

Wednesday: Read "Drinking Ocean Water and "Creative Solutions" Review for Icheck 4

Thursday: Icheck 4.

Friday: Review Icheck 4, Do Fizz quiz chemical reactions.

Week of February 26 - March 2.

Monday: Start Mystery Chemical investigation.

Tuesday: Finish Mystery Chemical investigation. Try to identify mystery chemical based on evidence.

Wednesday: Observe Evaporated solutions. Read "A sweet solution." and "Sour Power" 

Thursday: What's in your water experiment.

Friday: Makey - Makey

Week of February 19 - 23.

Monday: No School - Ice day

Tuesday: No School - Ice day

Wednesday: Find out how much epsom salt it takes to saturate a 50 ml of water.

Thursday: Finish Epsom salt experiment and Answer Response Sheet 4.

Friday: Plan Mystery Chemical investigation. 

Week of February 12-16.

Monday: I check 3.

Tuesday: Create a saturated solution experiment.

Wednesday: Finish salt solution experiment. Answer focus question. Read "The Bends" and Fill out Graphic organizer.

Thursday: Epsom salts Saturation investigation. Answer focus question and response sheet- investigation 4. Have a tea argument.

Friday: No School

Week of February 5-9.

Monday and Tuesday: Read "The Air" and "Famous Scientists".

Wednesday and Thursday: Introduce density. Layering Activity. Answer Focus question. Watch "Why are Oceans Salty" video. Read "Carbon Dioxide in the Air". Review for I-check.

Friday: Snow day

Week of January 29 - February 2.

Monday: Read "Solutions Up Close" using reading comprehension strategy. Online activity "Tutorial: Conservation of Mass"

Tuesday and Wednesday: Review Concentration. Focus question. Salt concentration investigation. Answer Vocabulary and Focus question. Response Sheet - Investigation 3. Read "Concentrated Solutions" and fill in concept map.

Thursday: Mystery Solutions investigation. Answer Focus question.

Friday: Read "The Air". Create Circle map. View online activities.

Week of January 22-26.

Monday: Focus question. Hot water bath investigation. Discuss the results of heating. Answer the focus question. 

Tuesday: Read "Solid to Liquid" using cause/effect 2 column notes. Discuss. Video "Changes in Properties of Matter" Assess progress - Response Sheet - Investigation 2.

Wednesday: Read "Liquid and Gas Changes." Discuss. Review Investigation 2. 

Thursday: I-Check

Friday: Soft drink experiment. Notebook sheet 9, Focus question. Introduce concentration.Answer focus question.

Week of January 15-19.

Monday: No School - snow day.

Tuesday: Build black boxes. 

Wednesday: Answer focus question. Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question. view on line activity- Black box.

Thursday: Demonstrate drought stopper. Focus Question. Draw your model of the drought stopper. Reveal system. Answer focus question. Assess.

Friday: Read "Beachcombing Science." Discuss the reading. Share the process used to create a model. 1. Observe 2, Create or construct, 3.Analyze, 4. Revise.

Week of January 8-12.

Monday: Outdoor solutions activity and Review for i-Check 1.

Tuesday; I-Check 1 test.

Wednesday: Black box challenge. Draw the boxes contents. Create black box models.

Thursday: Collaborate with black boxes. Black box conferences with consensus. How could you improve models?

Friday: Build black boxes. Answer focus question. Vocabulary - analyze, collaboration, consensus, construct, model, and revise. Evaluate Focus question.

Week of January 1-5.

Monday: New Years Day - No School

Tuesday : No School

Wednesday: Teacher inservice - No School

Thursday and Friday : Separating a dry mixture. Review plan to separate a dry mixture. Get materials and separate. Performance Assessment. Clean up and then answer focus question. Read taking mixtures apart. Watch video on "Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures." View online activities. Read "Science Practices" and "Engineering Practices". Fill in vocabulary and glossary.

Week of December 18-22.

Monday: Review mixture and solutions. Weigh 50 ml of water. Focus question. Figure out what happens to the water. Develop a model to explain what happens to the water. Answer focus question. Evaporate salt solution.

Tuesday : Observe evaporation. Introduce crystal. Review vocabulary. Support or refute claim. Read Mixtures. Use reading strategies.

Wednesday: Separating a dry mixture. Develop a plan to separate a dry mixture. Get materials.

Thursday: Jeopardy.

Friday: No School

Week of December 18-22.

Monday: Review mixture and solutions. Weigh 50 ml of water. Focus question. Figure out what happens to the water. Develop a model to explain what happens to the water. Answer focus question. Evaporate salt solution.

Tuesday : Observe evaporation. Introduce crystal. Review vocabulary. Support or refute claim. Read Mixtures. Use reading strategies.

Wednesday: Separating a dry mixture. Develop a plan to separate a dry mixture. Get materials.

Thursday: Jeopardy.

Friday: No School

Week of December 11-15.

Monday: Make any final changes to Solar Cooker/Heater. Do Math extension - Problem of the Week. Investigation 4: Heating Earth and Investigation 5: Water Planet.

Tuesday: Solar Cooker/Heater challenge. Put together Mixtures and Solution notebooks.

Wednesday: Introduce Chemical safety in the classroom. All students are required to use goggles or safety glasses during this module. Organize groups introduce chemicals and disassemble cooker/heaters in needed.

Thursday and Friday: Observe Gravel, Powder, and Salt and record their properties in Part 1 of sheet. Preview part 2, discuss and then add 50 mL of water to each cup. Define mixture. Focus Question. Separate mixtures: Screen, filter paper. Introduce solution. 

Week of December 4-8.

Monday: Earth and Sun Posttest

Tuesday: Introduce Solar Cooker or Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Wednesday: Solar Cooker or Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Thursday: Solar Cooker or Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Friday: Solar Cooker or Heater Challenge. Makerspace

Week of November 27 - December 1.

Monday: Read "Severe Weather" and Discuss. Review new voacabulary. Focus question: Climate. Introduce Climate and climate regions. GIve View climate video.

Tuesday and Wednesday: Describe regional conditions. Read "Earth's Climates". Use FOSSweb Climate regions map. Answer the Focus question. Read Global Climate Change." Watch climate change video. Review investigation 5. Start Module review.

Thursday: Module review

Friday: Earth and Sun Posttest

Week of November 20-24.

Monday: Water cycle focus question. Water planet discussion, globe activity, inventory water on Earth, discuss fresh water, and demonstrate water distribution.

Tuesday: Water-cycle activity. Notebook sheet 31. Discuss water cycle and refine. Complete sheet. Summarize water cycle. Answer focus question.

Wednesday: Read "The Water Cycle." Watch the Water Cycle and do online water-cycle activity. Read "Severe Weather". Discuss the reading.

Thursday: Thanksgiving

Friday: No School.

Week of November 13-17.

Monday: Review Icheck 4. Do condensation experiment. Write focus question. Introduce water vapor and discuss where condensation occurs. Create condensation chamber.

Tuesday: Observe condensation chamber and answer questions. Create and observe ice and water system. Add salt to make ice even colder. Make observations. Answer focus question.

Wednesday: Preview " Condensation." Answer three questions about an image they find interesting and write then answers in their notebook. Read "Condensation" independently. Reread article. Share notebook entries. 

Thursday: Review Condensation. Focus question: How does water vapor get into the air? How can we investigate this? Create heating water demonstration. Review vocabulary and clean up Notebooks.

Friday: Review the evaporation setup. Measure and discuss results. Introduce evaporation. Review vocabulary. Evaporate and evaporation. Answer focus question. Fill out Response Sheet-Investigation 5. 

Week of November 6-10.

Monday: Do hot water experiment. FIll in data sheet. Water-heater conference meetings. Fill out table and calculate the average.Graph the data and discuss graphs. DIscuss absorb and and reflect. Discuss heating water. Review vocabulary. Answer focus question.

Tuesday: Read "Solar Technology" Discuss reading. 

Wednesday: Review Investigation 4- 

Thursday: I check 4.

Friday: No School

Week of October 30-November 3.

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday: Introduce fluid. Cold water challenge. Discuss challenge. Demonstrate relative density. Focus question: What happens when a volume of fluid is warmed at the bottom? Introduce hot-water question. Notebook sheet 20 and then 21. Discuss results. View Convection. Introduce convection currents. Review vocabulary using Cloze procedure. Answer focus question. Share answers Do response sheet 22.

Thursday:Read "Wind and Convection" Use Reading comprehension strategy. Focus on diagrams. Read Wind Power. Redo Response sheet if necessary.

Friday: Create an experiment to determine the best hot water heater.

Week of October 23-27.

Monday: Review Vocabulary, Answer Focus Question, Assess graphs and Focus questions, Take 2 column notes Questions and Responses. Read "Uneven Heating." View online activities.

Tuesday: Conduction: Review Solar Energy, Heat transfer by contact, Do energy transfer challenge: Option 2. Watch "Particles in Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Watch "Energy Transfer: Conduction"

Wednesday: Review conduction, Do virtual investigation "Aluminum and Steel Strips in Water". Write Focus question in Journals, "How does energy transfer to the air. Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Thursday: Read "Heating the Air: Radiation and Conduction". Create a concept map for the word "heat." Answer focus question.

Friday: Makey-Makey

Week of October 16-20.

Monday: Watch "All about Stars", Fill out notebook sheet 12 to review and then discuss. Read "Star Scientists" and create a short presentation on one scientists.

Tuesday: Present Star Scientists. Review for I-check. Read "Our Galaxy" and annotate using self stick notes.

Wednesday: I-check.

Thursday: Introduce Solar energy and earth materials. Focus Question: "What happens to earth materials when they are exposed to sunlight." Design Experiment together. Write procedure. Conduct experiment.

Friday: Graph and analyze data. Discuss graphs. Introduce radiation and energy transfer, Solar energy exposure, and uneven heating. Review vocabulary. Answer Focus question. Assess Graphs and Focus question. 

Week of October 9-13.

Monday: Have students answer the focus question. "How do the parts of the solar system interact?" Explain orbit. Read “Why Doesn’t Earth Fly Off into Space?”. Do Response Sheet 2-4.

Tuesday: Discuss objects in the sky and stars. Introduce constellations, Draw own constellations.

Wednesday: No School - Teacher inservice.

Thursday: Answer focus question, "Why do stars appear to move across the night sky? Introduce seasonal constellations. Earth/ Sun system demonstration.

Friday: Vocabulary, Read "Stargazing" and discuss the reading.

Week of October 2-6.

Monday: Introduce the Sun model, Answer focus question. Read “Apollo 11 Space Mission”.

Tuesday: Read “How Did Earth’s Moon Form?” Share notebook entries.

Wednesday and Thursday: Introduce the solar system cards challenge. Sort cards by pictures. Discuss categories. Review Orbit. Sort planets by distance from the sun. Then sort other cards using planets. Fill out notebook sheet 9, Solar System Data, Group planets by composition. Discuss composition of planets. Introduce terrestrial planets and gas giant planets, Pluto, Eris, and Halley’s comet . Review vocabulary.

Friday: Read “Exploring the Solar System.” Answer focus question. Explain orbit. Read “Why Doesn’t Earth Fly Off into Space?”. Do Response Sheet 2-4.

Week of September 25-29.

Monday: Investigation3 - I check

Tuesday: Observe the daytime moon, Go outdoors to view daytime moon. What did it look like? Moon calendar. Focus question. HOMEWORK-Night-Sky Log.

Wednesday: Answer Focus question- Discuss Moon observations. Record moon data and vocabulary. Read "The Night Sky" and use 3-2-1 comprehension stategy. Discuss Reading. Study diagram. Read "Looking through Telescopes" Use summarizing chart as comprehension strategy. Discuss Reading.

Thursday: Update moon calendar. Focus Question, Introduce and construct Earth/Moon models. Introduce Sun model. Answer the focus question.

Friday: Read "Apollo 11 Space Mission", Discuss the reading. Read "How did the Earth's Moon Form?" Discuss the reading. Write a reflection about what you learned from the reading in your notebook.

Week of September 18-22.

Monday: Read "Earth's Atmosphere" pages 85 - 91. Take notes on each layer. When finished answer the five atmosphere questions. Discuss the five questions.

Tuesday: Write a brief discription of the current weather. Share reports. Discuss forecasting. Write focus question " How do meteorologists measure and record weather variables? Introduce local weather report. Discuss variables in the local report. Introduce wireless weather station.

Wednesday: Introduce Weather Data sheet. Answer focus question. Read "Weather Instruments" pages 92 -94

Thursday: Review Investigation 3 about the atmosphere and weather. All about Meteorology Video Chapters 2,3,4,6,7,8,9, and 14.

Friday: Investigation3 - I check

Week of September 11-15.

Monday: Math Extension.

Tuesday: Go over Science I check. Begin Air experiments

Wednesday: Write 3 observations and 3 questions about air and syringes. Write (Compress -forcing something into a smaller area), and (pressure - push of air) into notebook index.

Thursday: Create a model to explain what you have learned about air. Discuss matter and mass. Watch videos on air mass. Read and take notes from "What is air?"

Friday: Discuss the Atmosphere, Write the focus question. "What is Earth's atmosphere?" Watch atmosphere video.

Week of September 4-8.

Monday: Labor Day - No School

Tuesday: Start at 1.3.13 -1.3.22 Do "Reading in Science Resources" pages 137-138, Read "Sunrise and Sunset". Answer Focus Question.

Wednesday: 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Thursday. 

Thursday: Assessment I-check

Friday: Focus Question "What is Air?"Investigation 3.1.1 - 3.1.17, Introduce syringes, notebook sheet 13 Air investigations. Assess investigations. Share observations. Introduce compress and pressure. Clean up. 

Week of August 28 - September 1.

Monday: Answer and discuss Focus Question. 1.2.1 Review shadow positions, 1.2.2 Focus question, Step 4 discuss using sun tracker. Learn how to use a compass. Practice using a compass. Tape compass to sun tracker. Practice orienting compass. 1.2.10 Go outside and mark the tip of the Golf tee's shadow.

Tuesday: 1.2.13 Identify patterns, 1.2.14 Reproduce shadows with flashlights. 1.2.16 Replicate trackings. Vocabulary, Answer the focus question. 1.2.20-21 Read Changing Shadows in FOSS science resources. Use comprehension strategy.

Wednesday: 1.2.23 Response sheet: Inv. 1. View online activities, 1.2.25 Share Notebook entries.

Thursday: 1.3.1 Focus Question, DIscuss night and then day. 1.3.4 Introduce a model of the Sun. Follow steps 1.3.5-12. in FOSS Manual.

Friday: Start at 1.3.13 -1.3.22 Do "Reading in Science Resources" pages 137-138, Read "Sunrise and Sunset". Answer Focus Question, 1.3.28 Look at Daylight patterns, Online activity. Review Investigation 1 for I-check Tuesday. 

August 21-25.

Monday:

Tuesday: Back to School Night

Wednesday: Introduce Myself and go over Fire, Tornado and other various policies. Create Notebooks, and discuss Science Expectations.

Thursday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 1-10. Shadows: Focus question, Shadow observations, Outdoor Safety rules, Trace shadows throughout the day.

Friday: Investigation 1.1 Steps 11-17. Discuss shadow changes. Review vocabulary. Answer Focus question.