4th Grade-Week 5 Stream Tables and Weathering

5^th 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.

NO Homework

Vocablulary

Weathering

Erosion

Deposition

Canyon
Delta

Cornell Note Questions:

•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.

1st Grade-Week 4 Weather

4th Lab Week

Concept: Weather

Objective: Students will learn different types of weather like sunny, partly cloudy and overcast.

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. 

4th Grade-Week 4 Pangea and Quiz #1

Concept: Movement of Continents

Investigation: How Has the Earth’s Surface Changed?


Reading Before Class: FOSS Science Resources pgs 228-231. Review Wonders CA Content Reader pgs 78-83.


NO Homework

Vocabulary:
Pangaea
supercontinent
plate tectonics
lithosphere
Continental Drift Theory

Cornell Note Questions:

•What did Earth look like millions of years ago?
•What is the Theory of Continental Drift?
•What evidence supports the Theory of Continental Drift?

BrianPop.com video of the week: Plate Tectonics

In the early 1900's Alfred Wegener proposed the idea of Continental Drift. His ideas centered around continents moving across the face of the earth. The idea was not quite correct - compared to the plate tectonics theory of today - but his thinking was on the proper track.

Earth Science Quiz  #1

1.     __________________ are scientists who study rocks.

2.     __________________ is the study of Earth.

3.     Rocks look different because they are made of different  _____________.

4.     Six properties of rocks are _____________________________________. 

5.     __________________ is a mineral’s ability to resist being scratched.

6.     __________________ is the way the surface of a mineral reflects light.

7.     __________________ is the color of the powder left behind when you rub a mineral against a white tile.

5. Waves, wind, water, and ice shape and reshape Earth’s land surface. As a basis for understanding this concept: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. 

4th Grade-Week 4 Rock Cycle Part 2

The Rock Cycle on the Big Island of Hawaii

Kilauea Volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii Island 

Steam vents of the Kilauea Volcano

Thurston Lava Tube... A 500-year old lava cave formed when an underground
channel of molten lava drained from its cooled walls forming a massive, hollow chamber.

Kilauea Iki Crater...It erupted in 1959 creating a lava lake. 

Later the lava drained back into the ground

Kilauea Iki Crater

Kilauea Iki Crater

Punaluu Black Sand Beach, Hawaii Island

Punaluu Black Sand Beach, Hawaii Island

Punaluu Black Sand Beach, Hawaii Island