Science Enrichment

Science Enrichment updates…

Week of October 5-9

Kindergarten

Content Objective:    Demonstrates  comprehension of the sense of sight by observing with their eyes what happens when liquid dish soap is added to milk that has food coloring drops in it.

Language Objective:    Orally explains or draws what he/she saw when the dish soap was added. How did the color drops change?

Sentence stem :

I used my sense of sight and saw_____________.

Vocabulary: senses, eyes, sight, see

S.IA.00.12 Share ideas about the senses through purposeful conversation.

S.IP.00.13 Plan and conduct simple investigations using the senses

First Grade

Content Objective:  Demonstrates comprehension of the observable property sinking and floating  by sorting and testing different objects based on this property.

Language Objective:  Draw and label to explain at least 2 object that floated and 2 that sank.

Vocabulary

sort, observable, properties, sink, float

P.PM.01.11 Demonstrates the ability to sort objects according to observable attributes such as color, shape, size, sinking or floating.

Second Grade

Content Objective:  Demonstrates synthesis of the properties of wood by creating a way to sink a floating piece of wood using rubber bands and paper clips.

Language Objective:        Writes and draws to explain how he or she got the floating wood to sink.

Sentence stems:

I got my piece of Pine wood to sink by ______________________.

I got my Plywood to sink by ___________________.

Vocabulary: classify, compare, properties, attributes, shape, size, texture, color, floating, sinking,

P.PM.02.12 Describe objects and substances according to their properties (color, size, shape, texture, hardness, liquid or solid, sinking or floating)

Third Grade

Content Objective:  Demonstrates comprehension of how weight and the strength of force can affect an object’s motion by predicting if a lighter or heavier ball will travel farther when a soft or hard force is applied.

Language Objective:  Writes to explain how the amount of force and weight affected each ball’s motion and distance traveled.

Vocabulary: hypothesis , prediction, results, conclusion, force, motion, push, pull, lighter, heavier, weight, force strength, measuring tapes, meter stick, meters, centimeters

P.FM.03.35 Describe how a push or a pull is a force.

P.FM.03.37 Demonstrate how the change in motion of an object is related to the strength of the force acting on it.

S.IP.03.14 Manipulate simple tools that aid observation and data collection (measuring tape or meter stick)

Fourth Grade

Content Objective:  Demonstrates comprehension of static electricity by experimenting with various balloon and static tube activities.

Language Objectives:  Write and draw to explain how static electricity works.

(Draw and label one of the experiments and explain what happened) 

Vocabulary: energy, transfer, electrical, static electricity, atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons, positive charge, negative charge, attract, repel

P.EN.E.1 Forms of Energy -Heat, electricity. light, and sound are forms of energy

P.EN.04.12 Identify heat and electricity as forms of energy

Fifth Grade

Content Objective: Demonstrates application of balanced and unbalanced forces by constructing ways to balance a cardboard crayfish on his/her finger tip.

Language Objective:  Writes and draws to explain the how I balanced the crayfish on my finger and explain what happens when forces are balanced verse unbalanced.

Vocabulary: balanced force, unbalanced force, changes in motion, constant motion

P.FM.05.32 Describe how constant motion is the result of balanced (zero net) forces.

P.FM.05.32 Describe how changes in the motion of objects are caused by non-zero(unbalanced) force.