SCIENCE PROJECTS INFORMATION (for extra credit to those who complete and submit on time)
Letter to families about the projects <--- Click here to understand about the science projects!
"SCIENCE PROJECTS: What do I need to find and do?" <--- Click here to find what information you need for your project, scroll down to find your grade
Resources that show BLUE UNDERLINES, are "hyperlinked" and will take you to a website about that thing when you click on it. Any other words in black and no underline are regular words.
1st grade (Planets)
All planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
2nd grade (Dinosaurs)
Students next unit will be in weathering and erosion (geology), so perhaps we will do research on dinosaurs since their fossils are found in rocks too.
Tyrannous Rex, velociraptor, brachiosaurus, triceratops, spinosaurus, gallimimus, stegosaurus, diloposaurus, pachderm, pterodactyl, ankylosaurus, allosaurus, and mosasaurus.
3rd grade project is on traits about yourself, and which of them (five or six) are inherited (from your birth mother and father through DNA) or they're from environment (from where you live and the people that you live with and spend a lot of time with).
4th grade (Bodily systems)
Cardiovascular, respiratory, excretory, skeletal, nervous, immune, digestive, and muscular
5th grade project is on elements from the Periodic Table. Students are expected to do research on their own with Internet resources or books from their local library or those available in the small library in the Science lab.
All grades (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) are welcome to use print materials and books to find the information they need, in addition to use the Internet. You can use articles, videos and more, but you must write what you will hand in. Providing links on a project is not acceptable for their written task.
Grade 1 will fill out a form with the facts about their planet. Grade 3 will type their information on Google Docs, using complete sentences and proper spelling and grammar. Grade 4 and will also type their information on Google Docs using complete sentences and proper spelling and grammar, but are expected to neatly organize their writing into paragraphs, including an introductory paragraph and a conclusion paragraph.
Questions or facts to be researched can be provided for all students by Mr. Lellis. If students can include pictures with their project, it will be given additional credit.