In this lesson students will use their knowledge of decimals to solve problems in a real- world setting.
In this lesson students will use knowledge of the needs of living things to examine their outdoor classroom for these factors that help plants grow.
Students will use knowledge of life cycles to collect evidence of the stages of life a plant goes through.
Students evaluate the impact of sensory language and figurative language in poetry, and determine the overall meaning of the poem using the outdoor classroom as a context for their writing.
In this lesson, students will understand that everybody is a writer, that writing is a tool for communication, and that it is an ongoing process.Students will create a beginning writing piece that could be made into a class book
In this activity, students will create shadows and using this evidence they will write a scientific claim using evidence.
Students will determine a rule for classifying outdoor objects based on physical properties of matter.
Students will determine a rule for classifying outdoor objects based on physicalproperties of matter.
Students will use their knowledge of operations and estimation to solve real world problems.
Students will make it a regular practice to record weather data using thermometers, wind vanes and rain gauges.
Building upon their understanding of forces and Newton's laws of motion, students learn about the force of friction, specifically with respect to cars. They explore the friction between tires and the road to learn how it affects the movement of cars while driving. In an associated literacy activity, students explore the theme of conflict in literature, and the difference between internal and external conflict, and various types of conflicts. Stories are used to discuss methods of managing and resolving conflict and interpersonal friction.
Students will use their knowledge of earth's natural resources to identify resources in the outdoor classroom and classify these resources as either renewable or non-renewable.
In this lesson, students learn about major landforms (e.g., mountains, rivers, plains, valleys, canyons and plateaus) and how they occur on the Earth's surface. They learn about the civil and geotechnical engineering applications of geology and landforms, including the design of transportation systems, mining, mapping and measuring natural hazards.
Students will explore the components of soil and make a model of sedimentary rock layers and fossil fuels.
Students will identify and compare attributes of two-dimensional and three- dimensional shapes in the world around them.
Students will identify and compare attributes of two-dimensional and three- dimensional shapes in the world around them.
Students will prepare the vegetable beds for planting exploring how simple and compound machines work.
Towards finding a solution to the unit's Grand Challenge Question about using nanoparticles to detect, treat and protect against skin cancer, students continue the research phase in order to answer the next research questions: What is the structure and function of skin? How does UV radiation affect the chemical reactions that go on within the skin? After seeing an ultraviolet-sensitive bead change color and learning how they work, students learn about skin anatomy and the effects of ultraviolet radiation on human skin, pollution's damaging effect on the ozone layer that can lead to increases in skin cancer, the UV index, types of skin cancer, ABCDEs of mole and lesion evaluation, and the sun protection factor (SPF) rating system for sunscreens. This prepares students to conduct the associated activity, in which they design quality-control experiments to test SPF substances.
Students will measure the dimensions of containers in the garden to determine the volume of soil and work out computations based off the volume.
Students will arrange themselves in planetary order and determine the distance from the sun.