Grade+3

"The learner will . . ." || **Standard(s)** || **No. of Days** || **Vocabulary Terms** || **Resources** || **Student Learning Activities** || **Assessment** || **Cross-Curricular Connections** ||
 * Teachers** (list)**: Andrea Krueger, Julia Burdick, and Deb Jeffers**
 * Columns 2,3, & 8 Required, Bolded Vocabulary Terms (Column 5) tested**
 * Textbook** (title, publisher, copyright date): Harcourt Science, Harcourt School Publishers, 2002
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 * **Unit** || **Objective:**
 * Unit D Ch. 3 Lesson 3 || **Students will observe and describe characteristics, patterns, and changes in the sky.** || **SCS5.4.1a Recognize that the observed shape of the Moon changes from day to day during a one month period.** || 5 days || **moon, month, night, observation, sky** || textbook, videos, Mobi, Gizmo, internet || moon recording chart, moon phases activity(in textbook), cookie moon phases, Moon phases Gizmo || Unit D Chap 3 # 23, 24, 25, Performance Assessment ||  ||
 * Unit C Ch. 1 || **Students will observe and describe Earth's materials, structure, and processes** || **SCS5.4.2.a Describe the characteristics of rocks and minerals** || 21 days || **color, heat, rock characteristics, shape, solid rock, wind, water** || textbook, videos, internet || investigations about each type of rock, scratch test (in textbook) || Unit C Ch. 1 Test ||  ||
 * Unit C Ch. 3 ||  || **SCS5.4.2.a Describe the characteristics of soil** || 14 days || **color, sand, soil, solid rock, water, wind** || textbook, videos, internet || soil sample map, enrich the soil activity(in textbook), types of soil activity(in textbook) || Unit C Ch. 3 Test ||   ||
 * Unit D Ch. 1 ||  || **SCS5.4.2.a Describe the characteristics of water (include Ogallala aquifer and water cycle)** || 10 days || **air, cloud, freezing, gas, heat, liquid, liquid water, precipitation, salt water, sky, temperature, water** || textbook, videos, internet, NRD speaker, || evaporation/condensation activity(in textbook), aquarium aquifer activity, water cycle posters, || Unit D Ch. 1 Test ||   ||
 * Unit D Ch. 2 Lesson 1 ||  || **SCS5.4.2.a Describe the characteristics of the atmosphere (include where weather happens, ozone, and jet stream)** || 2 - 4 days || **air, cloud, gas, precipitation, sky, temperature, weather** || textbook, videos, internet || reading weather maps activity(in textbook), chart of layers, || Unit D Ch. 2 Test #6, 8, 18, 19 ||   ||
 * Unit D. Ch. 2 || **Students will observe and describe the effects of energy changes on Earth** || **SCS5.4.3.b Observe, measure, and record changes in weather (temperature, wind direction and speed, precipitation)** || 14 days || **air, cloud, freezing, heat, liquid water, observation, precipitation, motion, sky, temperature, thermometer, water, weather, weather conditions, weather patterns, wind** || textbook, videos, internet, weather service speaker || Skype another school to compare weather data, making thermometers, making anemometers, making weather vanes, making rain gauges, || Unit D Ch. 2 Test ||  ||
 * ||  || **SCS5.4.3.c Recognize the difference between weather, climate, and seasons** || ? || **seasonal changes, seasonal weather patterns,air, cloud, freezing, heat, liquid water, observation, precipitation, motion, sky, temperature, thermometer, water, weather, weather conditions, weather patterns, wind** || internet, video || classroom discussion, ||   || SS ||
 * || **Students will explore and describe the physical properties of matter and its changes** || **SCS5.2.1.c Use appropriate metric measurements to describe physical properties** || all year || **ruler, size, weight** || textbook, math textbook, science experiments and investigations || use appropriate tools to measure mass, length, and capacity || Math text-Ch. 8, 9, 10, 12 || Math Measurement Chapters ||
 * Unit D Ch. 1 ||  || **SCS5.2.1.d Identify state changes caused by heating and cooling solids, liquids, and gasses (water cycle)** || included in days for 5.4.2a || **gas, freezing, liquid, liquid water, temperature, heat, water, states of matter** || textbook, video, internet || water cycle activities, || Unit D Ch. 1 Test# 1, 3, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14; Performance Assessment WB65-66 ||   ||
 * Unit D Ch. 3 Lesson 3 || **Students will identify the influence of forces on motion** || **SCS5.2.2.a Describe motion by tracing and measuring an object's position over a period of time (speed) *as related to the moon's phases** || included in days for 5.4.1a || **motion, Moon, position, observation,** || textbook, video, internet, Mobi, Gizmo || moon recording chart, moon phases activity(in textbook), cookie moon phases, Moon phases Gizmo || Performance Assessment ||  ||
 * Unit A Ch. 1 || **Students will investigate and compare the characteristics of living things** || **SC5.3.1.b Identify how parts of plants function to meet basic needs (root of a plant helps the plant obtain water)** || 14 - 21 days || **plant, plant growth, water, soil, growth, requirements for life, light, temperature, heat, energy, food, system, function, structure** || textbook, video, internet, || Needs of Plants activity(in textbook), simple plant activity(in textbook), sprouting seeds activity (in textbook), food coloring activity, AIMS Primarily Plants || Unit A Ch. 1 Test ||  ||
 * Unit A Ch. 1 || **Students will identify variations of inherited characteristics and life cycles** || **SC5.3.2.a Identify inherited characteristics of plants** || included in days for 5.3.1b || **plant, plant growth, water, soil, growth, requirements for life, light, temperature, heat, energy, food** || textbook, video, internet || sprouting seeds activity(in textbook), AIMS Primarily Plants || Performance Assessment ||  ||
 * Unit A Ch. 1 ||  || **SC5.3.2.b Identify the life cycle of plants** || included in days for 5.3.1b || **plant, plant growth, water, soil, growth, requirements for life, light, temperature, heat, energy, food** || textbook, video, internet || sprouting seeds activity(in textbook), Needs of plants activity (in textbook), AIMS Primarily Plants || Unit A Ch. 1 Test #23, 24, 25, 26, 27 ||   ||
 * Unit A Ch. 1 Lesson 4 || **Students will describe relationships within an ecosystem** || **SC5.3.3.a Diagram and explain a simple food chain beginning with the Sun (as related to plants)** || included in days for 5.3.1b || **plant, plant growth, water, soil, growth, requirements for life, light, temperature, heat, energy, food** || textbook, internet || Food factories activity (in textbook), AIMS Primarily Plants ||  ||   ||
 * Unit A Ch. 1 Lesson 3 || **Students will describe changes in organisms over time.** || **SC5.3.4.a Describe adaptations made by plants to survive environmental changes** || included in days for 5.3.1b || **plant, plant growth, water, soil, growth, requirements for life, light, temperature, heat, energy, food, system, function, structure** || internet || Leaf lab, seed spreading activity. how plants breath activity(4th grade textbook page A76-A77), AIMS Primarily Plants ||  ||   ||
 * || **Students will plan and conduct investigations that lead to the development of explanations** || **SC5.1.1.a Ask testable scientific questions** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork,** || textbook pages X-XXIV ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || **SC5.1.1.b Plan and conduct investigations and identify factors that have the potential to impact an investigation** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork, ** || textbook pages X-XXIV ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || **SC5.1.1.c Select and use equipment correctly and accurately** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork, ** || textbook pages X-XXIV, activities for home and school at the end of each unit ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || **SC5.1.1.d Make relevant observations and measurements** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork, ** || textbook pages X-XXIV,activities for home and school at the end of each unit ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || **SC5.1.1.e Collect and organize data** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork, ** || textbook pages X-XXIV, activities for home and school at the end of each unit ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || **SC5.1.1.f Develop a reasonable explanation based on collected data** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork, ** || textbook pages X-XXIV, activities for home and school at the end of each unit ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || **SC5.1.1.g Share information, procedures, and results with peers and/or adults** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork, ** || textbook pages X-XXIV, activities for home and school at the end of each unit ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || **SC5.1.1.h Provide feedback on scientific investigations** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork, ** || textbook pages X-XXIV, activities for home and school at the end of each unit ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || **SC5.1.1.i Use appropriate mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork, ** || textbook pages X-XXIV, activities for home and school at the end of each unit ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || **Students will describe how scientists go about their work** || **SC5.1.2.a Recognize that scientific explanations are based on evidence and scientific knowledge** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork, ** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || **SC5.1.2.b Recognize that new discoveries are always being made which impact scientific knowledge** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork, ** || Science in Technology and Science through time-all units in textbook ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || **SC5.1.2.c Recognize many different people study science** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork, ** || People in Science-all units in textbook ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || **Students will solve a simple design problem** || **SC5.1.3.a Identify a simple problem** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork, ** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || **SC5.1.3.b Propose a solution to a simple problem** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork, ** ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || **SC5.1.3.c Implement the proposed solution** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork, ** ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || **SC5.1.3.d Evaluate the implementation** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork, ** ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || **SC5.1.3.e Communicate the problem, design, and solution** || all year || **observation, prediction, reasoning, scientist, teamwork, ** ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || Health- Wellness & Healthy Living Habits || **Bike Safety** ||  ||   || internet, videos, text Health Activity Book, text R8 - R9 || guest speaker, bike rodeo, trade books ||   ||   ||
 * || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Health- Wellness & Healthy Living Habits || **Fire Safety** ||  ||   || internet, videos, test R10, Health Activity Book || Fire Department visitation, trade books ||   ||   ||
 * || Health - Nutrition || **Food Pyramids & Servings** ||  || **food, energy, growth, requirements for life, water, weight,** || text R24 - R27, internet, videos, school nurse || School nurse or dietician - guest speaker, AIMS Jaw Breakers and Heart Thumpers, trade books ||   ||   ||
 * || Health - Wellness & Healthy Living Habits || **Drugs** ||  ||   || internet, school nurse, || trade books ||   ||   ||
 * || Health - Body Systems || **Digestive System** ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">food, energy, growth, requirements for life, water, weight, system, function, structure ** || text R34 - R35 || AIMS Jaw Breakers and Heart Thumpers, guest speaker - school nurse, trade books ||   ||   ||
 * || Health - Body Systems || **Teeth** ||  ||   || internet, school nurse, dentist || guest speaker - dentist, models, trade books ||   ||   ||