Science Enrichment

Kindergarten:

Content Object:  I can demonstrate comprehension of Earth’s materials and its uses by planting a seed using Earth’s materials (soil and water) and observing it grow for weeks.

Language Objective:   I can orally explain how I planted my seed today.

Sentence stems:  First I _________________________. Then I _____________________.

Next I ________________________. Finally I _______________________________.

Vocabulary:  Earth Materials, soil, water, plant, seed, grow
E.SE.E.1 Earth Materials- Earth materials that occur in nature include rocks, minerals, soils, water, and the gases of the atmosphere.  Some Earth materials have properties which sustain plant and animal life.

First Grade:

Content Objective:  I can demonstrate knowledge of animal life cycles by identifying the stages in a chicken life cycle.

Language Objective:  I can orally explain the stages in a chicken’s life cycle using my chicken life cycle wheel and transition words.

Sentence Stems:

First______________. Then, ______________.

Next,______________. Finally _____________.

Vocabulary: Life Cycle, egg, roosting, hatchling, chick, adult, Oviparous Animals

L.OL.E.2 Life Cycles- Plants and animals have life cycles.  Both begin life and develop into adults, reproduce, and eventually die.

L.OL.01.21  Describe the life cycle of animals including the stages.

Second Grade:(continuation from last week)

Content Objective:  I can demonstrate comprehension of how plant seeds get dispersed to help a plant’s life cycle by experimenting in a bee pollination activity using starburst(nectar), cheese puffs(pollen) and paper flowers.

Language Objective:  I can draw and write to explain how a bee pollinates and helps a plant survive using transition words, first, next, then, finally.

Vocabulary:  plant seeds, fruit, nectar, pollen, seed dispersal, life cycle, pollination

L.OL.E.2  Life Cycles- Plants and animals have life cycles.

L.OL.E02.14  Identify the needs of plants.

Third Grade:  

Content Objective:  I can demonstrate comprehension of recycling, reducing, and reusing of Earth’s materials by creating a new invention using recyclable materials such as used paper, paper towel rolls, straws, paper cup/plates, water bottles, bottle caps, styrofoam pieces, bubble wrap, cardboard, buttons, etc.

Language Objective:  I can draw and write to explain my group’s new invention made out of recyclable materials.

Vocabulary:  Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Earth’s materials, renewable, non-renewable, resources

E.ES.03.43  Describe ways humans are protecting, extending, and restoring, resources(recycle, reduce, and reuse).
E.ES.03.44  Recognize that paper, metal, glass, and some plastics can be recycled.

Fourth Grade:  (Continuation)

Content Objective:  I can demonstrate comprehension of food chains by dissecting an owl pellet and observe and compare the bones to a chart to conclude what the owl ate.

Language Objective:  I can create a chart and write to explain a possible food chain from my owl pellet using transition words.

Example:  First_______________________., Next,________________.  Then___________________. After that the __________________. Finally _____________.

Vocabulary:  prey, predator, food chain, source of energy, producers, consumers, decomposers, herbivores, omnivores, carnivores, pellets

L.EC.04.11  Identify organisms as part of a food chain or food web.

L.OL.04.16  Determine that animals require air, water, and a source of energy and building material for growth and repair.

Fifth Grade:

Content Objective:  I can demonstrate comprehension of the Nervous system by experimenting with an activity called “Falling Sticks”  where I can  measure in centimeters the speed of an impulse or message through the Nervous System.

Language Objective: I can write to explain what I learned about the Nervous system by answering reflective questions on the experiment sheet.

Vocabulary:  System, Nervous, voluntary, involuntary, brain, spinal cord, nerves, neurons, impulses

L.OL.05.41  Identify the general purpose of selected animal systems.

L.OL.M.4  Animal systems- Multicellular organisms may have specialized systems that perform functions which serve the needs of the organism.