Science Enrichment

Young 5’s/Kindergarten

I can use descriptive word to explain the weather, participate in a weather skit song, and color a daily weather wheel.

I can orally explain today’s weather by using my weather wheel.

Sentence Stems:

Today’s weather feels_________________.

It looks__________________________.

Vocabulary:  weather, today, seasons, temperature, hot, cold, warm, freezing, sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, stormy, windy

Second Grade

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

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

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

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Third Grade-(Continuation of last week)

I can demonstrate comprehension of various climates by color coding a world map according to climate zones(Polar/cold, Temperate,Warm, Tropical) and picking a place I would travel to for the climate.

I can draw or write to explain what I should pack and wear if I was traveling to ________________.

Sentence Stems:

The different climate zones are_______________________.

If I could pick a climate to live in, it would be _________________

Because_________________________________________.

I would pack_____________________________.

I would wear______________________________________.

Vocabulary:  climate zones, Polar, Temperate, Tropical, Arid, Mediterranean, Tundra

Fourth Grade

I can demonstrate comprehension of how vibrations of sound and light waves can be sent across distances by experimenting with the Morse Code using flashlights and creating messages to be decoded.

I can write a message using the Morse Code patterns and think of other ways sound and light are sent across distances.

My Morse Code message is ________________________.

Other ways we transmit messages is by____________________________.

Vocabulary:  sound, light, waves, vibrations, transmit, patterns, Morse Code

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Fifth Grade-(Continuation from last week- Graphing and Questions)

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

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