Science

Students will review severe weather and what these forecasts entail, as well as learn about how they can stay at school or at home during these storms.

The students will demonstrate an understanding of how the characteristics and changes of environments and habitats affect the diversity of organisms. They will be able to develop and use a food chain...

Students will describe and define the ocean floor including the continental shelf and slope, the mid-ocean ridge, the rift zone, the trench, the seamount, and the ocean basin.

Using their 5 senses, students will use a sugar cube piece of gum to better understand the qualitative and quantitavie characteristiscs items have.

Students will build bridges based on their knowledge of shapes.The goal is to discover which shapes are the strongest and why certain structures are built the way they are. They will be able to...

Students receive foundational information in the previous grade about the plant life cycles. The teacher should begin the discussion assessing student’s prior knowledge about plants including, the...

Cricket, the main character in Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe, moves into a treehouse in the woods to find her mother’s “bird room” before her mother returns. The book can be used to teach students...

In Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe, sunset times are important for solving the clue trail. Students can use the book as a starting point to learn more about sunrise/sunset times and the rotation of...

In Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe, the main character Cricket discovers squirrels in a nest above the treehouse. Students can use the novel as a starting point for learning more about squirrels.

In Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe, the main character Cricket decides to live in a treehouse in the woods. She returns one afternoon to find her father’s book and her food supply destroyed by...