Science Enrichment

Young 5’s

I can understand what a habitat is by sorting animals that live on land, animals that live on water, or both.

I can orally give one example of an animal who lives on land and one that lives in water.

Sentence Stems:

_________________ lives on land.

_________________lives in the water.

______________lives on land and water.

Vocabulary:  habitat, needs, survival

Kindergarten

I can understand what a habitat is by sorting animals by where they live(desert, pond, jungle, polar, ocean, forest).

I can orally give one example of an animal and explain where it lives and why.

Sentence Stem:

__________________ lives ________________ because______________.

Vocabulary: habitat, needs, survival, desert, polar, jungle, ocean, forest, pond

First Grade

I can demonstrate comprehension of animal traits by choosing 2 animals and creating a new animal with traits from both of the chosen animals.

I can draw and orally explain my created animal and label it’s external parts.

Sentence Stems:

My animal is named______________.  

It has ______________ and ________________ traits from

_________________.

It has _________________ and _________ traits from ___________________.

Vocabulary:  traits, external parts, parent, offspring, resemble

1-LS3-1

Second Grade

I can demonstrate comprehension about plant parts and functions by exploring and conducting an investigation through dissecting and comparing a dry seed and a soaked seed to find out the job of a seed.

I can draw and write to explain my observations of a soaked and dry seed.  (Answer questions on provided sheet)

Vocabulary:  plant parts- seed, leaves, roots, stem, flower, seed coat, food storage, embryo(baby plant)

L-S2-1

Third Grade

I can demonstrate comprehension about animal and plant traits and behaviors by playing a Domino card game where I have to identify the difference of instincts, learned behavior, and inherited traits.

I can orally give an example of an inherited trait, natural instinct, and learned behavior.

Sentence Stems:

An example of an inherited trait is ____________________.

___________________ is an example of a learned behavior.

An example of an instinct is when_____________________________.

Vocabulary:  inherited, learned, instinct, acquired, heredity, traits, offspring

3-LS3-1

Third/Fourth Grade-Logel’s class

I can demonstrate comprehension of body systems by participating in the Mystery Science activity “Why Do Your Biceps Bulge,” where I build a robot finger to see how the body parts work as a system to help move my finger.

I can orally explain how my finger parts work as a system.

Vocabulary:  system, tendon, muscle, bone

4-LS1-1

Fourth Grade-Elward’s and Mosed’s

I can demonstrate comprehension of external parts of living things serve as purpose by participating in a “Bird beak” activity( various beaks-tweezers, scissors, chopsticks, slotted spoon, straw will be used to pick up various foods -juice(nectar), rice(seeds), berries(gummy bears), meat(large marshmallows), and bugs/animals(wet noodles).

I can explain in writing which type of bird and bird beak is best for which food and why.

Sentence Stems:

The _________________ beak is _____________ .  It is able to best eat ___________________ because____________________.

Vocabulary:  external parts, functions, habitat, environment, survival

4-LS1-1

Fifth Grade

I can demonstrate comprehension of the components of an Ecosystem by identifying abiotic (non-living) and biotic (living) things found in various ecosystems and how they depend on each other for survival.

I can explain by writing the abiotic and biotic components of a pond ecosystem and orally share my findings.

Vocabulary:  ecosystem, survival, abiotic, biotic