5th Grade-Week 7 Quiz Week

7th Lab Week

Quiz Week

Questions of the Week: 
•How does the Pacific Ocean effect the climate of California?
•What are the main sources of fresh water?
•Where is most of the water found on Earth?
•How is most of the fresh water used in California?
•How can a water molecule be recycled through the Water Cycle?

1st Grade-Week 6 Seasons of the Year

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6th Lab Week

Concept: Seasons of the Year

Objective: Students will learn the four seasons of the year and their characteristics.

Vocabulary:
seasons
Fall
Autumn
Winter
Spring
Summer

Questions of the Week: 
What are the four seasons? 
What are the characteristics of each season? 

BrainPopJr.com Video of the Week: Seasons

Can you name the season in each picture?

What color are the leaves in Fall/Autumn?

Where do we need to go to see snow near Los Angeles?

CA State Science Standards

3a. Students know that the weather changes from day to day but that trends in temperature or of rain (or snow) tend to be predictable during a season.
4a. Draw pictures that portray some features of the thing being described.

5th Grade-Week 6 Weather Forecasting

6th Lab Week

Concept: Forecasting Weather

Objective: Students will learn what influences weather and how to read the symbols of a weather map.

Weather Review & Quiz Next Week 

Vocabulary:
weather map
air mass
cold front
warm front
high-pressure
low-pressure

Questions of the Week:
•What is an air mass?
•What is a front?
•What kind of weather happens at a cold front?
•What kind of weather happens at a warm front?
•Why are the highest and lowest temperatures NEVER close to the ocean?
•What influence does the Pacific Ocean have on the weather of Los Angeles?

Bonus Question:
•How is most of the fresh water used in California?

BrainPop.com Video of the Week: Weather 

Class Reading: FOSS Science Resources Read pages 236-250. Wonders CA Content Reader Read pgs 72-73.

What kind of weather happens at a warm front?
What kind of weather happens at a cold front?

Where is the wind blowing?

How does the Pacific Ocean effect the weather in Southern California?

Where are the highest and lowest temperatures located?

CA State Science Standards

4a. Students know the influence that the ocean has on the weather and the role that the water cycle plays in weather patterns.

4c. Students know how to use weather maps and data to predict local weather and know that weather forecasts depend on many variables.

4d. Students know that the Earth’s atmosphere exerts a pressure that decreases with distance above Earth’s surface and that at any point it exerts this pressure equally in all directions.

1st Grade-Week 5 Weather Instruments

5th Lab Week

Concept: Weather Instruments

Objective: Students will learn how to use a thermometer to measure temperature.

Vocabulary:
temperature
thermometer
wind speed
anemometer

Question of the Week: How is temperature and wind speed measured?

BrainPopJr.com Video of the Week: Temperature

A thermometer

An anemometer and a wind vane

CA State Science Standards
3a. Students know how to use simple tools (e.g., thermometer, wind vane) to measure weather conditions and record changes from day to day and across the seasons.
3b. Students know that the weather changes from day to day but that trends in temperature or of rain (or snow) tend to be predictable during a season. 

5th Grade-Week 5 Severe Weather

5th Lab Week

Concept: Severe Weather

Objective: Students will learn the different types of severe weather and where they occur in the United States.

No Homework

Vocabulary:
tornado
thunderstorm
lightning
hail
hurricane
drought
flood
blizzard

Questions of the Week:
•What is severe weather?
•What are the different types of severe weather?
•Where do hurricanes form?
•How does hail form?

•What kind of severe weather does California have?

BrainPop.com Video of the Week: Thunderstorms, Hurricanes and Tornadoes

Class Reading: FOSS Science Resources Read pages 227-235. Wonders CA Content Reader Read pgs 56-57, 62-63 & 68-69.

Thunderstorm

Tornado

Recipe for tornadoes

Diagram of a tornado

Large hail

A satellite picture of a hurricane.

Diagram of a hurricane

CA State Science Standards

4c. Students know the causes and effects of different types of severe weather. 

1st Grade-Week 4 Weather

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4th Lab Week

Concept: Weather

Objective: Students will learn different types of weather and how to monitor the weather.

Vocabulary:

weather

monitor

weather symbols

meteorologist

sunny

partly cloudy

overcast

cloud

fog

Question of the Week: What is the weather like today?

BrainPopJr.com Video of the Week: Water Cycle

Sunny

Partly Cloudy

Overcast

Rain

Snow

Fog

Weather Symbols

CA State Science Standards

3b. Students know that the weather changes from day to day but that trends in temperature or of rain (or snow) tend to be predictable during a season.

4a. Draw pictures that portray some features of the thing being described.

4b. Record observations and data with pictures, numbers, or written statements. 

Straw Towers

Task: 
Design and build a straw tower using only 25 straws and 30 inches of tape.
Your tower must be able stand on its own for 60 seconds.

Time limit: 45 minutes

5th Grade-Week 4 Water Cycle

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Objective: 

Students will learn how a water molecule can change from a liquid to water vapor and back to a liquid.

Students will learn how a water molecule moves throughout our planet in the Water Cycle.

Vocabulary:
evaporation
condensation
precipitation

Warm Up:
Wet Paper Towels demonstration

What is the water cycle? 

Discuss, draw pictures, and write down ideas

•What are the three parts of the Water Cycle?

•What is evaporation?

•What is condensation?

•What is precipitation?

•Which kinds of precipitation do we get in Los Angeles?

BrainPop.com Video of the Week: Water Cycle

Where is water on our Earth? 

How much of the water can we drink on Earth?

How is water used at home?

Can water be in the ground?   

  

Is their water in animals or plants?

   

Sleet

Hail

Rain 

Snow

What temperatures does snow, sleet and freezing rain occur?

How do we use water at home?
How can we conserve water at home?

Most of the fresh water in California is used for agriculture or farming.

The Water Cycle

Review the parts of the Water Cycle: 

•Evaporation is when water heats up and changes into water vapor.

•Condensation is when water vapor cools and changes back into water on a surface.

•Precipitation is when water falls back to Earth as rain, snow, sleet or hail.

Homework: Water Cycle worksheet

2 points for completing the crossword puzzle correctly
and
2 points for completing the Water Cycle picture correctly labeled.

Class Reading: FOSS Science Resources Read pages 219-226. Wonders CA Content Reader Reread pgs 54-55.

An interactive website for the Water Cycle...click here.

Plastic Paradise Video

5-ESS2-2. Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.

ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes

Nearly all of Earth’s available water is in the ocean. Most fresh water is in glaciers or underground; only a tiny fraction is in streams, lakes, wetlands, and the atmosphere. (5-ESS2-2)

CA State Science Standards
3a. Students know most of Earth’s water is present as salt water in the oceans, which cover most of Earth’s surface.
3b. Students know when liquid water evaporates, it turns into water vapor in the air and can reappear as a liquid when cooled or as a solid if cooled below the freezing point of water.
3c. Students know water vapor in the air moves from one place to another and can form fog or clouds, which are tiny droplets of water or ice, and can fall to Earth as rain, hail, sleet, or snow. 3d. Students know that the amount of fresh water located in rivers, lakes, underground sources, and glaciers is limited and that its availability can be extended by recycling and decreasing the use of water.