1st Grade-Week 7 Weather Instruments

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7th 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. 

4th Grade-Week 6/7 Stream Tables Part 2 & Quiz #2

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6th/7th Lab Session Week

Review the Rock Cycle and how water changes our Earth's surface.

Reading Before Class: FOSS Science Resources pgs 232-252 & 256-257. Wonders CA Content Reader pgs 84-89.

Review for Quiz #2

Vocablulary

Rock Cycle
Igneous Rock
Metamorphic Rock
Sedimentary Rock
Weathering

Erosion

Deposition

Canyon
Delta

•What is weathering?
•What can cause weathering?
•What is erosion?
•What is deposition?
•What landform is created by a river at the end of a river?

BrianPop.com videos of the week: 
Rock Cycle
Weathering
Erosion

Stream Tables Part 2

Concept: What causes Earth's surface to change? 

Investigation: How does water change Earth’s surface?

Vocablulary

Weathering

Erosion

Deposition

Canyon

Delta

•What is weathering?

•What can cause weathering?

•What is erosion?

•What is deposition?

•What landform is created by a river at the end of a river?

CA Science Standards

4a. Students know how to differentiate among igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks by referring to their properties and methods of formation (the rock cycle).

5a. Students know some changes in the earth are due to slow processes, such as erosion, and some changes are due to rapid processes, such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes.

5c. Students know moving water erodes landforms, reshaping the land by taking it away from some places and depositing it as pebbles, sand, silt, and mud in other places (weathering, transport, and deposition).

6c. Formulate and justify predictions based on cause-and-effect relationships.

6d. Conduct multiple trials to test a prediction and draw conclusions about the relationships between predictions and results.

6f. Follow a set of written instructions for a scientific investigation.

Open House-May 7, 2015

Brentwood Science Magnet

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Pizza sold 5:30-6:00

Open House 6:00-7:00

Come to room 46 at Open House and get supplies to make mock rocks.

Mock Rock 1/2 Recipe 

• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/4 cup salt

• 1/2 cup sand
• 1/4 cup gravel
• 1 Tablespoon oyster-shell pieces
• 3 drops red food coloring
• 3 drops blue food coloring
• 2 drops yellow food coloring

Following the same directions.

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.

4th Grade-Week 5 Stream Tables and Weathering

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5^th/6th Lab Session Week

Concept: What causes Earth's surface to change? 

Investigation: How does water change Earth’s surface?

Reading Before Class: FOSS Science Resources pgs 232-252 & 256-257. Wonders CA Content Reader pgs 84-89.

Crossword Puzzle

Vocablulary

Weathering

Erosion

Deposition

Canyon
Delta

•What is weathering?
•What can cause weathering?
•What is erosion?
•What is deposition?
•What landform is created by a river at the end of a river?

BrianPop.com video of the week: Weathering and Erosion

What does water in a river do to rocks?

How do rocks get so small?

CA Science Standards

5a. Students know some changes in the earth are due to slow processes, such as erosion, and some changes are due to rapid processes, such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes.

5c. Students know moving water erodes landforms, reshaping the land by taking it away from some places and depositing it as pebbles, sand, silt, and mud in other places (weathering, transport, and deposition).

6c. Formulate and justify predictions based on cause-and-effect relationships.

6d. Conduct multiple trials to test a prediction and draw conclusions about the relationships between predictions and results.

6f. Follow a set of written instructions for a scientific investigation.

Extra Credit
Step 1: Go to the California Science Center.

For 2 extra credit points, take a picture at this recycling exhibit and send the picture to mr.gantt@gmail.com.

For 3 extra credit points, make a stream at this exhibit and video record water moving through your stream. Send the video to mr.gantt@gmail.com.