Helping at Home:
- Create a hurricane/severe weather kit at home with your child. Allow him/her to provide suggestions and put items into your kit (flashlight, candles, water etc.).
- Watch and observe the temperatures in different parts of the country. Ask your child questions about changes in temperature and the impact on the environment.
- If your child still plays with toys at bath time, have him/her make observations about which objects float and why.
- Play doctor with your child: point out the brain, heart, lungs, stomach, and bones (skeleton). Ask your child what the purpose of each of these body parts are.
- Turn discussions into "how do you know this?" talks.
Yearly Focus Units
-Students observe and measure objects based on their physical attributes. Identification of the states of the material will be based on similar physical characteristics. Students recognize/list objects' physical properties. They investigate, measure, and compare the volume of liquids in different containers.
-Students explain forces, pushes/pulls, can cause objects to move and direction/speed object moves depends on strength of the push or pull. Forces act with/out touching objects. Magnetic force can either repel (push) or attract (pull) certain objects.
-Students create nature questions in local environments. They make inferences/explanations based on observations and data that differs among groups. Explain similar investigations should result in similar conclusions. Explain difference between observation/inference. Recognize scientists look for new ways to solve problems.
-Students identify examples-energy sources humans use in everyday lives/communicate results.
-Students will gain an understanding of nature patterns; how the sun lights and warms the Earth; what the air is made of and how it moves; evaporation; and how to prepare for severe weather.
-Students understand Earth's structure by identifying the formation and various characteristics of rocks and soil.
-Students will understand life cycles of various plants and animals. They will know various human body parts (brain, heart, lungs, stomach, muscles, and skeleton) and their basic functions.
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Links to Help Your Child
Activities for Students:
http://www.cpalms.org/Public/PreviewCourse/Preview/52
What is Weather? http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/whatisweather/aboutweather/flash_menu.shtml
Seasons:
http://tarheelreader.org/2011/06/14/seasons-17/
Observe Water in Winter and Summer: http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.watcyc.wintersummer/observe-water-in-winter-and-summer/
Salt Water: http://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.watcyc.solarstill1/solar-still-part-i-salt-water/
Chasing Tornadoes: http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.watcyc.chasing/chasing-tornadoes/
FEMA for Kids (weather preparation):
https://www.ready.gov/kids
Moving and Growing: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/flash/moving_growing.swf
Where Do Butterflies Come From? http://tarheelreader.org/2011/03/01/where-do-butterflies-come-from/
Solids and Liquids: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/8_9/solid_liquids_fs.shtml
Three Kinds of Matter (solids, liquids, and gases) Story: http://tarheelreader.org/2011/03/22/three-kinds-of-matter-solids-liquids-and-gases
States of Water:
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/textbook/slg.html
Changing Ice to Water:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/flash/changing_state.swf
Forms of Water:
http://tarheelreader.org/2011/07/10/forms-of-water/
Material Characteristics: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/flash/characteristic_material.swf
Sorting and Using Materials: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/sorting_using_mate_fs.shtml
Heating and Freezing:
http://archive.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/SolidsandLiquids/activities/changeit.html
Magnets and Springs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/magnets_springs_fs.shtml
- Create a hurricane/severe weather kit at home with your child. Allow him/her to provide suggestions and put items into your kit (flashlight, candles, water etc.).
- Watch and observe the temperatures in different parts of the country. Ask your child questions about changes in temperature and the impact on the environment.
- If your child still plays with toys at bath time, have him/her make observations about which objects float and why.
- Play doctor with your child: point out the brain, heart, lungs, stomach, and bones (skeleton). Ask your child what the purpose of each of these body parts are.
- Turn discussions into "how do you know this?" talks.
Yearly Focus Units
-Students observe and measure objects based on their physical attributes. Identification of the states of the material will be based on similar physical characteristics. Students recognize/list objects' physical properties. They investigate, measure, and compare the volume of liquids in different containers.
-Students explain forces, pushes/pulls, can cause objects to move and direction/speed object moves depends on strength of the push or pull. Forces act with/out touching objects. Magnetic force can either repel (push) or attract (pull) certain objects.
-Students create nature questions in local environments. They make inferences/explanations based on observations and data that differs among groups. Explain similar investigations should result in similar conclusions. Explain difference between observation/inference. Recognize scientists look for new ways to solve problems.
-Students identify examples-energy sources humans use in everyday lives/communicate results.
-Students will gain an understanding of nature patterns; how the sun lights and warms the Earth; what the air is made of and how it moves; evaporation; and how to prepare for severe weather.
-Students understand Earth's structure by identifying the formation and various characteristics of rocks and soil.
-Students will understand life cycles of various plants and animals. They will know various human body parts (brain, heart, lungs, stomach, muscles, and skeleton) and their basic functions.
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Links to Help Your Child
Activities for Students:
http://www.cpalms.org/Public/PreviewCourse/Preview/52
What is Weather? http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/whatisweather/aboutweather/flash_menu.shtml
Seasons:
http://tarheelreader.org/2011/06/14/seasons-17/
Observe Water in Winter and Summer: http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.watcyc.wintersummer/observe-water-in-winter-and-summer/
Salt Water: http://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.watcyc.solarstill1/solar-still-part-i-salt-water/
Chasing Tornadoes: http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.watcyc.chasing/chasing-tornadoes/
FEMA for Kids (weather preparation):
https://www.ready.gov/kids
Moving and Growing: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/flash/moving_growing.swf
Where Do Butterflies Come From? http://tarheelreader.org/2011/03/01/where-do-butterflies-come-from/
Solids and Liquids: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/8_9/solid_liquids_fs.shtml
Three Kinds of Matter (solids, liquids, and gases) Story: http://tarheelreader.org/2011/03/22/three-kinds-of-matter-solids-liquids-and-gases
States of Water:
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/textbook/slg.html
Changing Ice to Water:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/flash/changing_state.swf
Forms of Water:
http://tarheelreader.org/2011/07/10/forms-of-water/
Material Characteristics: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/flash/characteristic_material.swf
Sorting and Using Materials: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/sorting_using_mate_fs.shtml
Heating and Freezing:
http://archive.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/SolidsandLiquids/activities/changeit.html
Magnets and Springs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/magnets_springs_fs.shtml