Dates

Content Topics

Essential Questions/Concepts

Activities/Assessments

August

Introduction material

• Lab equipment
• Safety
• Scientific method

• Calculator
• Balance
• Microscopes
• Thermometer
• Volume
• Experiment
• Bar graph
• Measurements
• Average

September

Ocean Water

Ocean floor

• Make up of ocean water
• Properties- temp, pressure
• Living things in ocean

• Features
• Exploration of the ocean floor

• Component diagram
• Density demonstration
• Lighting the water activity
• Pressure activity
• Elodea living things activity
• Whale debate
• Vocabulary activity

• Graphing the floor
• Models of ocean floor
• SQ3R
• Investigation review
• Ice burg demo
• Sonar activity
• Discovery channel underwater exploration quests
• Small group submersibles design contest
• Investigation review
• Chapter test

October

Moving ocean water

• Currents
• Waves

• Tides

• Enchanted learning:  tides relationship to sun and moon
• Current trends activity
• Research animals that follow ocean current
• Small group continent & currents activity
• Survey satellite location to monitor ocean currents
• Ocean current activity (59)
• Investigation review on ocean currents
• Research shorelines & contact cities for preserving and evaluate
• Graph significant tsunamis in past 4 decades
• Investigation review (67)

• Making a tide model activity
• SQ3R
• Compare creatures at low tide & in tide pools
• Investigation review
• Unit test

Earth’s crust

• Ocean resources
• Ocean pollution

• Continental drift
• Location of volcanoes and earth quakes

• Mountains: 
• plate movement
• mountain building

 

• What you see from the sea activity
• Ocean treasures bulletin board – ongoing
• Investigation review
• Oil spill investigation
• Oil spill video clip

• Enchanted learning – pangea puzzle
• Investigation review
• Probability of earthquake in major city activity
• Think it investigation (21)
• Sea floor spreading models
• Investigate highest & lowest points on Earth
• Mid-Atlantic Ridge investigation
• Investigation review (32)

• Plate movement activity
• Investigation review (50)

• Safety activity
• Chart comparing most recent natural disasters and how they can prepare
• SQ3R
• Vocabulary activity
• Investigation review (67)
• Locating earthquakes activity
• Section quiz

• Volcano anatomy poster
• Small group research poster/model/jigsaw
• Investigation review (99/110)

December

• Earthquake safety
• Measuring earthquakes
  

• Volcanoes

• Safety activity
• Chart comparing most recent natural disasters and how they can prepare
• SQ3R
• Vocabulary activity
• Investigation review (67)
• Locating earthquakes activity
• Section quiz

• Volcano anatomy poster
• Small group research poster/model/jigsaw
• Investigation review (99/110)

• Characteristic of matter
• Kinds of matter
• How matter changes

• Mass, volume, density
• Elements and compounds
• Solids and liquids
• Atom structure and chemical changes
• Acids, bases, salt
• Vocabulary
• Investigation review
• Slime
• What chemist do
• Chapter quiz

Forces and Motion

• • Describing and measuring motion
  • Gravity
  • Forces in pairs
  • Real world forces

• Measuring Speed
• Measuring gravity and fall-rate
• Friction
• Action/reaction
• KWL
• Sink or Float
• Investigation Review
• Chapter Review
• Chapter Quiz

• Acids and bases
• Pulse and blood pressure
• Reading graph, gauges and scales
• Temperature averages
• Press, mission control, and  communications,
• Field Trip to CLC
• Final grade based on success or failure of CLC Mission