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K - Science-

Kindergarten: Classifying Living Things

SC-E-3.1.1 Things in the environment are classified as living, nonliving, and once living. Living things differ from nonliving things. Organisms are classified into groups by using various characteristics (e.g. body coverings, body structures).

Activity: Using Inspiration, create 2 groupers (boxes), label one grouper “living” and the other “nonliving”  then direct students to drag pictures into correct group. 

First Grade: Weather

SC-E-2.3.2   Weather can change from day to day and over the seasons.  Weather can be described by observations and measurable quantities, such as temperature and precipitation.

 Using a graphing software or Excel, create a document for a team of students entitled Temperature of Lexington.  Each day for 1 or 2 weeks each team will go to The Joy of Teaching Internet site to find the temperature of Lexington .  The temperature is recorded in the data base document.  For higher level students have them select a city in another state and help them find the www.weather.com site (site is located on The Joy of Teaching )that will give the temperature for that city.

Second Grade: Resources from Earth Materials

SC-E-2.1.2   Earth materials provide many of the resources humans use.  The varied materials have different physical properties, which make them useful in different ways, for example, as building materials (e.g., stone, clay, marble), as sources of fuel (e.g., petroleum, natural gas), or growing the plants we use as food.

• Complete lesson plan with handouts and sites: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=376

• Where do pencils come from? http://www.oneworld.net/penguin/food/food3.html

• Where does milk come from? Check out the virtual tour.  http://www.moomilk.com/

• Baking Bread Field trip, includes a great How-to piece. 

• Find out where you school lunch comes from.  View the extensive Power Point made by some 7^th graders.

Third Grade : Resources from Earth Materials

SC-E-2.1.2   Earth materials provide many of the resources humans use.  The varied materials have different physical and chemical properties, which make them useful in different ways, for example, as building materials (e.g., stone, clay, marble), as sources of fuel (e.g., petroleum, natural gas), or growing the plants we use as food.

See Activity and Resources above for Second grade.

Fourth Grade: Electricity

SC-E-1.3.3   Electricity in circuits can produce light, heat, sound, and magnetic effects.  Electrical circuits require a complete conducting path through which an electrical current can pass.

•  Use the DRAW tool bar in Word 2000 to create illustrations.  Use The Electricity Book  for a resource.

• Make one: http://fly.hiwaay.net/~palmer/motor.html

Fifth Grade :  (Week 13)  Scientific Ways of Thinking and Working

Students will

refine and refocus questions that can be answered through scientific investigation combined with scientific information.

use appropriate equipment (e.g., watches), tools (e.g., rain gauges), techniques (e.g., classifying), technology (e.g., electronic media, calculators, World Wide Web), and mathematics in scientific investigations.

use evidence (e.g., classifications), logic, and scientific knowledge to develop scientific explanations.

design and conduct different kinds of scientific investigations to answer different kinds of questions.

communicate (e.g., write, draw, graph, speak) designs, procedures, and results of scientific investigations.

review and analyze scientific investigations and explanations of other students.

 A scientific Process Log: