Description

SKCS5: Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.
a.   Describe and compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion.
b.   Begin to draw pictures that portray features of the thing being described.

SKCS6: Students will understand the important features of the process of scientific inquiry.

Students will apply the following to inquiry learning practices:
a.   In doing science, it is often helpful to work with a team and to share findings with others.
b.   Tools such as rulers, magnifiers, and balance scales often give more information about things than can be obtained by just observing things without help.
c.   Much can be learned about plants and animals by observing them closely, but care must be taken to know the needs of living things and how to provide for them (classroom pets).

Essential Questions

How should we take care of plants/ animals?

Lesson Plans

BBC's Growing Plants Lesson Plan

BBC's Helping Plants Grow Well Lesson Plan

NASA's KSNN What Do Plants Need to Grow Lesson

NASA's KSNN What Do Animals Need to Live Lesson

• TEAMS: Lifecycles: Mealworms and Caterpillars- United Streaming video in students share and compare observations of the progress of plant and insect life cycles. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• TEAMS: Fast Plants: Seeds and Germination- United Streaming video in students dissect and observe bean seeds. Includes teacher's guide. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Discovering Natural Colors- United Streaming video in students Children are encouraged to use scientific tools to examine colors in nature, and to create their own collections of natural colors. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Videomath: Size- United Streaming video in which HT solves problems with his knowledge of size and measurement.  Students use scientific investigations to discover properties of matter. Includes teacher's guide. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Properties of Matter, Part 1- United Streaming video about activities in the "matter kitchen". Students explore scientific investigations. Includes segment on five senses. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Properties of Matter, Part 2- United Streaming video about activities in the "matter kitchen". Students explore scientific investigations. Includes segment on matter and mass. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Concepts in Nature: Where Animals Live-United Streaming video about animals' basic needs. Includes teacher's guide and quiz. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Growing Plants: Science in a School Garden-United Streaming video about observing plants growth and how they fit into the environment. Includes teacher's guide and quiz. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Pets and Their Care-United Streaming video about pets and their individual needs. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• BBC's Growing Plants allows students to virtually grow plants by adding items that plants need.

• BBC's Helping Plants Grow Well allows students to virtually grow plants by adding and removing items that plants need. (advanced)

• Sammy's Science House: Explore the Field Notebook

• Sammy's Science House: Discover the Wonders of Nature

• Kidspiration: Plant Growth Experiment

• Kidspiration: Birds of Our School

• SmartBoard: Animals Eating Notebook Activity

• SmartBoard: Plant Needs Notebook Activity

• SmartBoard: Animal Needs Notebook Activity

• SmartBoard: Experiment Conditions Notebook Activity