Science Enrichment

Kindergarten/Young 5’s

I can learn more details on  how to describe the weather by following along with the Mystery Science activity “Have You Ever Watched a Storm?”.

I can draw a picture describing today’s weather.  In my picture I will make sure I draw what I am wearing and how the sky and ground look.

I can orally explain using sentence stems:

The weather is ________________.  

I am wearing ________________ because it is __________ outside.  

I can see __________________________.

First Grade

I can demonstrate knowledge of the moon by observing a movable model of the moon and watching a brainpop video.

I can draw a picture and write a sentence to explain at least one new fact that I learned about our moon today.

Sentence Stem:  

I learned that the moon _____________________________________________.

ESS1:B

Second Grade

I can demonstrate how landforms form or change by experimenting in a “Cookie Weathering and Erosion” lab using chocolate chip cookies(landform/rock), straw(wind), toothpick(animals and plants changing rock), and dropper(rain).

I can draw or write to explain my observations of weathering and erosion during the “Cookie Lab”.

Vocabulary:  landforms, mountain, plataeu, mesa, hill, plain, volcano,beaches, island, peninsula, weathering, erosion

ESS1.C      2-ESS1-1

ESS2.A

Third Grade

I can demonstrate knowledge of animal habitats by matching animals to their correct habitat and explaining why I think they belong there.

I can write to explain why one I matched an animal to a certain habitat.

Sentence Stems:

__________ belongs in the ___________ habitat.

I think this because__________________________________.

Vocabulary:  habitat, physical characteristics, organisms, survival, environment

LS4.D

Fourth Grade

I can demonstrate comprehension of fossils by exploring real fossil rocks and working in a group as  paleontologists to figure out what one can learn from a fossil structure of a Stegosaurus.

I can write and draw to explain facts about my fossil and predict about the organism.

Vocabulary:  Earth Processes, fossils, Paleontologist, organisms, extinct, structure, behavior

4-ESS1-1

Fifth Grade

I can demonstrate comprehension of Earth’s patterns of day, night and seasons by creating line graphs that show a years worth of data about length of sunlight and the sun’s angel.

I can explain and answer questions about the patterns I observed from the data in my graph and how it helps me understand why Earth has day and nights, and seasons.

Vocabulary:  rotation, revolve, orbit, seasons, axis, patterns, line graph

5-ESS1-2