Skills
Skills
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Living Things Need Food
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how plants and animals get energy to survive.
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Shelter Building Experiment
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how a shelter can protect a living thing.
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Habitat Diorama - Assessment Task
An inquiry-based assessment task in which students will demonstrate an understanding of the four basic needs for living things.
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Making a Mini Water Cycle Experiment
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how the water cycle works.
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Creating Oxygen Experiment
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how plants make oxygen.
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Diving Into Description
A 60 minute lesson in which students explore the properties of materials and develop vocabulary to describe them.
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Applying Basic Algorithms
A 60 minute lesson in which students will follow a sequence of steps and identify these as an algorithm.
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Creating Basic Algorithms
A 60 minute lesson in which students will consolidate understanding of algorithms by creating a set of instructions.
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Introduction to Algorithms
A 60 minute lesson in which students will understand the concept of an algorithm by listing steps to move an object around a map.
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Living Things and Their Needs Unit Plan
This Science unit covers a range of concepts relating to the basic needs of living things.
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Making Monsters
A 60 minute lesson in which students design and create a 3D monster using objects made from materials with different properties.
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Properties of Materials Unit Plan
This Chemical Sciences unit investigates the observable properties of materials. Descriptive vocabulary is explored as well as the suitability of materials for different purposes.
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Keep Me Dry
A 60 minute lesson in which students investigate materials to determine how water resistant they are.
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Give Me Some Shade
A 60 minute lesson in which students investigate materials to determine how much shade they provide.
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What Works Best?
A 60 minute lesson in which students develop an understanding of the suitability of certain materials for different purposes.
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Let's Sort!
A 60 minute lesson in which students identify the material objects are made of and sort them in various ways.