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First Grade
Content Objective: I can demonstrate comprehension of wind vanes and how they work by experimenting by blowing water drops on wax paper in North, South, East and West directions.
Language Objective: I can draw and write to explain what a wind vane is and what it does by using sentence stem:
A wind vane is a weather tool that _______________________.
Vocabulary: weather, tool, measures, wind, directions, North, South, East, West, breezy, calm, windy
E.ES.01.21 Compare daily changes in weather related to temperature, cloud cover, precipitation, and or wind (breezy, windy, calm).
E.ES 01.31 Identify the tools that might be used to measure temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, and wind.
Second Grade
Content Objective: I can demonstrate comprehension of how water begins the journey as rain and ends it’s journey in the ocean by predicting and experimenting with drops of water on a slope (a slanted tray).
Language Objective: I can write to explain my observations with the water drop experiment.
Observation Questions?
What did the water do when not on a slope?
What did the water drop do on a slope?
What happened when drops fell at different heights?
What happened when water drops ran into each other?
Compare different size drops. What happened?
What would happen if the water drops were in the frozen state?
Vocabulary: properties, water, liquid, solid, gas, water cycle, flowing, natural resource, ocean, lake, stream, describe, dome, absorb, precipitation, run off
E.FE.02.13 Describe the properties of water as a liquid.
E.FE.E.1 Water is a natural resource and is found underground, on the surface, of the Earth, and in the sky. It exists in three states (liquid, solid, gas) and can go back and forth from one to another.
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