Hunter Elementary School

Kindergarten

Science Focus

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LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

I can tell you about plants and animal families.

1. New Plants: Fossweb

2.  Flower Photography: Toney Howell

observe how plants and animals closely resemble their parents

Demonstrate through the growth of a plant, (alfalfa, lima bean, etc.) elements that are essential for plant growth

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

I can tell you about plants and animal life cycles.

3. Growing Plants: BBC

recognize and observe that plants and animals have a life cycle

Experiment with the growing needs of plants

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

I can tell you how plants and animals are alike and different.

4. Plants and Animals in the Local Environment: BBC

observe and compare similarities between plants and animals

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

I can tell you how the difference between living and non-living.

5. Ourselves: BBC Living and Non Living

distinguish between living and non-living things

Use science notebooks to sketch living and non-living things in a local environment

PHYSICAL SCIENCE CONCEPTS

I can tell you how objects alike and different.

1. Matching Objects:Grouping and Changing Materials: BBC

2. Sorting and Using Materials: BBC

describe objects in terms of the materials of which they are made (e.g., clay, cloth, paper) and their physical properties (e.g., color, size, shape, weight, texture, flexibility, attraction to magnets, floating, sinking)

Participate in a class graphing activity in which an object is grouped by a single attribute

PHYSICAL SCIENCE CONCEPTS

I can tell you how water becomes hard and how water becomes a gas like air.

3. Changing Stat:  BBC, liquid, solid and gas

understand that water can be a liquid or a solid and can be made to change back and forth from one form to the other

1. Predict the time needed for water to go through phase changes (e.g., solid, liquid, gas)

2. Design an experiment to determine which melts faster: fresh snow or frozen snow

3. Participate in Discovery Centers featuring a wide variety of materials, with students reporting discoveries

EARTH AND SPACE CONCEPTS

I can tell you about  our earth’s land and water.

1. All About Water: PebbleGo (Login to PebbleGo, click “Earth Science” and “All About Water”)

2. Landforms: PebbleGo (Login to PebbleGo, click “Earth Science” and “Landforms”)

examine Earth’s properties and recognize that it consists of air, mountains, rivers, oceans, valleys, deserts, lakes, glaciers, islands, and local land forms

EARTH AND SPACE CONCEPTS

I can tell you about  earth’s rocks and how they are different.

3. Rocks: PebbleGo (Login to PebbleGo, click “Earth Science”, “Earth Features” and “Rocks”)

Rock Hound Kids:

Identify Rocks Game Geology For Kids: (Harder, Group activity.)

generalize that most rocks are composed of a combination of different substances

Collect rocks and discuss characteristics

EARTH AND SPACE CONCEPTS

I can tell you about  objects that are far away and near.

4. Faces and Places: NGA, Kids: Perspective in Landscape:

recognize that objects appear smaller the farther away they are

1. Use binoculars or telescopes to magnify familiar objects for identification at a distance too great for unaided eyes

2. Compare same size beach balls at different distances on the playground

EARTH AND SPACE CONCEPTS

I can tell you how we hurt our earth and how we can help our earth.

5. Rachel Carson: PebbleGo: (Login to PebbleGo, click “Biographies”, “ History Makers” and “Rachel Carson”)

References:

6. Kids 4 Clean Air:

identify the effects people have on the earth

1. Participate in classroom practices that conserve natural resources

2. Explore ways Alaska Natives conserve natural resources

3. Take a walking field trip to record instances of human impact

EARTH AND SPACE CONCEPTS

I can tell you about  how seasons are different.

7. Weather: PebbleGo (Login to PebbleGo, click “Earth Science”, “Weather” and “Fall, Winter, Spring or Summer”)

8. Sky Diary: Kid Storm

observe and describe daily and seasonal weather changes

Pictorially record weather observations

EARTH AND SPACE CONCEPTS

I can tell you about the season and to dress for the weather.

9. Caillou Dress for the Weather:

10. Gerald’s Weather Wheel

12. Autumn Leaves: National Geo. Explorer

name and describe the seasons

Draw and dress a paper doll, then discuss the clothing necessary for the Alaskan outdoors over the seasons

EARTH AND SPACE CONCEPTS

I can tell you how snow affects people.

12. Earth in Action: PebbleGo (Login to PebbleGo, click “Earth Science”, “Earth in Action” and “Avalanches, Floods or Tsunamis”) 

13. Weather Wiz Kids: Winter Storms

observe how weather affects earth and its inhabitants

1. Visit an adopted tree or slough once a quarter and document observations

2. Make a snow gauge

First Grade

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LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

I can tell how seeds change.

1. Seed Growth: BGFL

describe how seeds change as they germinate

1. Use a hand lens to observe details of a variety of seeds

2.Create a model or drawing which represents the parts of the seed

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

I can tell how seeds move to different places.

2. Seed Dispersal: BGFL

investigate how seeds are transported by air, water and animals

1. Investigate various seeds and identify the manner in which they were transported

2. Design and create a “seed” for transport by air, water or living creature

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

I can tell how plants can make more plants.

3. Natural Cloning: Thinkquest

4. Underground Stem: Botanical

describe how some plants reproduce without seeds (vegetative reproduction from rhizomes) e.g. aspen, cottonwood and strawberry plants are able to produce saplings directly from roots of the parent plant

1. Investigate the life cycle of a plant from a seed to mature plant and the necessity of solar energy

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

I can tell you what a food web is.

5. Kid’s Corner- Food Chain Game

6. Food Chain: National Geo Explorer

identify the components of a simple food web

Sequence a simple food web and identify the function of primary producers and primary consumers

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

I can tell about different living things in food web.

7. Producer, Consumer or Decomposer: Free Online Science Games

understand the importance of connections between different biological organisms in a food web or chain

Identify common vegetables or fruits in student lunches and identify the part of the plant from which each came

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

I can label different  about parts of a plant.

8. Crickweb KS1 Science:  The plant labels are on the tenth section or panel of the page.

9. Label the Diagram Game: Neok12

identify the parts of plants including roots, stem, leaves and flower

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

I can tell you about local edible plants.

This sites are references:

10. Sample and Analysis of AK Native Subsistence Foods: AK Native Tribal Heath Consortium

11. Alaska Wide Edible Plants:

12. Alaska Wild Berries:

Consider how Native groups use local plants for food and medicinal applications

Interview or listen to a Native elder presentation on the uses and importance of local plants

PHYSICAL SCIENCE CONCEPTS (Heat)

I can tell you about how heat and friction.

1. Friction: Phet

investigate friction as a source of heat through a variety of materials

PHYSICAL SCIENCE CONCEPTS (Heat)

I can tell you how animals keep warm.

2. Keeping Warm: BBC

Reference:

3. Cool Critters: Alaska Kids

explore the properties of heat conductors and insulators

1. Measure and record temperatures of objects placed in light

2. Conduct experiments that illustrate the movement of heat from one object to another

PHYSICAL SCIENCE CONCEPTS (light)

I can tell you about darkness and light.

4. Light and Dark: BBC

5. Light and Shadow: BBC

Explore how to reflect, refract and absorb light

1. Create shadows of various styles, shapes and colors

2. Explore how shadows change their shape and size

3. Discover properties and uses of prisms

EARTH AND SPACE CONCEPTS (Weather)

I can tell you about different kinds of weather.

1. Stickers for All Seasons: Scholastic

2. Weather: PBS

describe the various types of weather

EARTH AND SPACE CONCEPTS

(Weather)

I can tell about how water becomes hard ice and how it becomes a gas like fog.

3. Water Cycle: Scholastic

4. Solids, Liquids and Gases: Scholastic

use a weather term for water that relates to each of the three states of matter

EARTH AND SPACE CONCEPTS

(Weather)

I can tell you about clouds and rain and how they are importaint.

5. Explore Climate Conditions: Scholastic

Reference:

Four types of clouds:

explain and relate how clouds are the source of precipitation

EARTH AND SPACE CONCEPTS

(Weather)

I can tell you about the weather.

6. Weather: Edheads, This would be a great class activity for using weather words.

7. Weather: Power to Learn

use scientific knowledge to describe everyday weather

EARTH AND SPACE CONCEPTS

(Weather)

I can tell you about what affects the weather.

8. Weather: Edhead: This would be a good whole class activity for weather prediction.

observe weather patterns and develop predictive reasoning skills

EARTH AND SPACE CONCEPTS

(Forces)

I can tell you about types of bad weather.

9. Tornadoes: KidStorm

10. Flood Photos: FEMA

describe a situation in which air, land and water cause another object to move

SPACE CONCEPTS

(Forces)

I can tell you about erosion.

11. Rock Around the Park: National Park Service activity on EROSION.

explore the forces of air, land and water in the natural world

SPACE CONCEPTS

(Forces)

I can tell you about how air can change.

12. Air Mass Types: The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical Geography.

explore ways to weight the air and prove it has mass

Second Grade

Science Focus

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LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

(Organisms and Physical Adaptations)

develop an understanding that all animals depend on plants for energy

1.Build the Food Chain: EcoKids

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

(Organisms and Physical Adaptations)

describe how energy flows through the food web from sunlight energy through primary producers (plants) to primary consumers (herbivores); to secondary consumers (carnivores) and that some creatures have adapted to be both primary and secondary consumers (omnivores)

2. Food Chains: BBC

3. Build a Food Web:Scholastic

Invite an elder to talk about the importance of gathering and hunting as a source of food

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

(Organisms and Physical Adaptations)

describe how physical adaptations determine how creatures feed and what they eat

4. Animal Adaptations: EcoKids

5. Eco-Quizzes: EcoKids, Arctic Adaptations Quiz

1. Investigate how teeth reveal whether an animal is an herbivore, carnivore or omnivore (comparison of skulls and teeth)

2. Use beak adaptations kit (pliers/nuts, eyedropper/nectar, etc), to investigate how beak adaptations influence food choices for birds

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

(Habitats)

 identify local landforms and resources

6.. Landforms: PebbleGo (Login to PebbleGo, click “Earth Science” and “Landforms”)

7. Landforms: Southern Kings Consolidates School

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

(Habitats)

 investigate, name and describe the habitats of several Alaskan animals

8. Match the Animal to the Habitat: PBS

9.Habitats: BBC

10. Interdependence and Adaptation:  BBC

11.Alaska Birds:  Images and info

12. Animals: AK Fish and Game

1. Create a creature(s) adapted to survive in a specific Alaskan habitat

2. Choose an Alaskan creature to study and report how it has adapted in biology or behaviors to survive the challenges of living in its habitat

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

(Habitats)

identify characteristics that influence a particular species to thrive or decline in a habitat

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

(Habitats)

infer how animals or plants become endangered or extinct

16. Extinct and Endangered: The Learning Zone

17. Endangered Species and Endangered Animals: at Bagheera

18. Extinct Animals: Bagheera

Choose a plant or animal and explore the factors that have led to their extinction (e.g. dinosaurs)

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

(Habitats)

identify how climate or other environmental change (volcanic/tectonic/fire/pollution) can alter a local habitat and predict what effects this will have on the plants, creatures, and people living in this habitat

19. Earth in Action: PebbleGo (Login to PebbleGo, click “Earth Science”, “Earth in Action” and “Avalanches, Floods or Tsunamis”)

Examine effects of different amounts of available water, light, nutrients, pollution and/or space on plant life. Predict related changes a given habitat might experience with too little or too much water, sunlight or nutrients

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

(Habitats)

create and apply functional sorting to classify natural objects using observable physical characteristics

20. Characteristics of Materials: BBC

Landforms: PebbleGo (Login to PebbleGo, click “Earth Science” and “Landforms”)

Using observable similarities and differences, sort leaves, shells, coins, books and/or other classroom accessible objects into morphological groupings of relatedness. Students present their classification schema and explain the sorting criteria they used

LIFE SCIENCE CONCEPTS

(Habitats)

identify a variety of non-living objects readily available in the classroom and sort them into identifiable categories

21. Variation: BBC

PHYSICAL SCIENCE CONCEPTS

(Sound)

explore pitch by changing the rate of vibration with a variety of objects

1.Changing Sound: BBC

1. Create and manipulate wave patterns using a variety of materials (string, slinky, water surface, tuning forks)

2. Design a musical instrument based on vibrations

3. Observe a Native American drum presentation and then interview a drum player/maker

4. Demonstrate how drum shape and materials integrate science concepts of vibration and sound waves

PHYSICAL SCIENCE CONCEPTS

(Sound)

examine relative conductivity of sound waves using a variety of materials and sort accordingly

2. Sound and Hearing: BBC

1.  Conduct sound energy to physical objects by creating visible or audible waves in a variety of materials. Sort materials into groupings by relative conductivity

PHYSICAL SCIENCE CONCEPTS

(Force and Motion)

investigate the relationship between motion and energy

3. Pushes and Pulls: BBC

1. Explore different ways to move a ping pong ball from one location to another

2. Experiment with launch distances of rubber bands when stretched to different lengths

PHYSICAL SCIENCE CONCEPTS

(Force and Motion)

explore magnetism as a force

4. Magnets and Springs: BBC

Classify objects by whether they are attracted to a magnet or not

PHYSICAL SCIENCE CONCEPTS

(Force and Motion)

explore gravity as a force

5. Forces and Movement: BBC

Use measurements to demonstrate that heavier objects require more force than lighter ones to overcome gravity

EARTH AND SPACE CONCEPT

(Earth’s Orbit and Tilt)

name and describe the seasons

1. One year in two minutes: Neok12

2. Weather: PebbleGo (Login to PebbleGo, click “Earth Science”, “Weather” and “Fall, Winter, Spring or Summer”)

Compare and contrast Alaska’s seasons to those in other environments

SPACE CONCEPTS

(Earth’s Orbit and Tilt:)

demonstrate how Earth’s tilt and position in orbit causes seasons

3. What Cause Earth’s Seasons? : Neok12

4. Sunlight: PebbleGo (Login to PebbleGo, click “Earth Science”, “Weather” , “ About the Weather” , “Sunlight” and “Sunlight and Seasons”)

1. Using a model, demonstrate how Earth’s tilt influences the seasons

SPACE CONCEPTS

(Rotation)

understand how Earth’s rotation causes day and night

5. Earth –Sun Relations: Geo Science Animations

6.Earth’s Rotation: PebbleGo (Login to PebbleGo, click “Earth Science”, “Earth Features” and “Earth’s Rotation”)

Make observations of the changes in an objects shadow during the course of a day and investigate the source of the variation

SPACE CONCEPTS

(Rotation)

demonstrate and explain how the sun is always shining somewhere on the earth

7. Earth, Sun and Moon: BBD

8. Solar System: Dynamic

9. Earth’s Rotation: PebbleGo (Login to PebbleGo, click “Earth Science”, “Space” and “Planets” and “How Earth Moves”)

SPACE CONCEPTS

(Rotation)

investigate the sun’s apparent movement across the sky

10. Space Science, Observing the Sky: Motion of the Earth Rotation: Science & Technology Focus

11. The Sun: PebbleGo (Login to PebbleGo, click “Earth Science”, “Space” and “Our Solar System” and “How Does It Move?”)