Week 7- Mar. 27, 29

Disaster Week- Earthquakes!

Welcome back! Hopefully everyone had a fun Spring Break. We will be focusing the next few weeks on natural disasters. This week it's all about Earthquakes- how they happen, where and when, as well as safety precautions. 

The students had some questions about real world earthquake application, specifically how our buildings are made safe for earthquakes. So I thought that our experiments should focus on how we make safe structures. If time permits we will do three experiments. 

Lab 1: Build a marshmallow structure. See how well it stands up against an earthquake. Each person makes their own structure and compares results with their group.

Lab 2: Build a sugar cube structure See how well it stands up against an earthquake. Each group makes their structure as a team.

Lab 3: Build another sugar cube structure but use frosting as a bonding agent. See how well it stands up against an earthquake. Each group makes their structure as a team.

Week 6- Mar. 13, 15

The Body- Focus on Senses

 

This week we will do an overview of the basic body system and focus on the senses. I will show an empty body outline we will add to as we watch a short audio book on: heart, brain, skeleton, veins and arteries, stomach, intestines, lungs, muscles, and skin. Audio book can be seen here: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/elibrary/bodybook.html

Week 5- Mar 6, 8

Food Chains

We will focus on the movement of energy, beginning with the sun and moving through the plants and animals in a given environment. 
We will do an experiment where students will act as prey and predator to see how survival happens. And if there is time we will also do an experiment involving adaptation.

Link to this week's vocabulary practice:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B89LN3617zKWWUFrN3NyQlZRTFd3dklVQzEtbGFZdw

A lot of friends wanted to know how to get to the games we played so here are links to them:

Week 4- Feb 28, Mar 1

Earth and Rocks

We will be discussing the layers of the Earth this week. Students will also learn how rocks are formed.

Our experiment will be modeling this week. In science we must learn how to accurately portray what we are observing so others might be able to test our theories, part of that process is building models.

Link to vocabulary practice:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B89LN3617zKWUEd5dHdXZTJTd3VBY3Brbk04NldjQQ

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