What’s Happening in Science this week – 9/14 – 18

We are continuing to work on our Plant Unit. We will be testing September 29.

Monday – Today we read 3 passages about plants. These passages are our theme about plants – importance of plants, needs of plants, and how plants reproduce. We picked out the key details in each and wrote them on a graphic organizer. These can be found on our interactive notebook pages 18 – 21.

Tuesday – Today we watched two study jams – Plants with Seeds and Photosynthesis. We described and illustrated what we knew/learned about this in our notebook. This can be found on notebook pages 22. We also illustrated a page about the needs of plants.

  
Wednesday – Today the kids really impressed me!! I had really debated having them do today’s activity, and they all aced it!! I’m going to step up my game — these kids can handle it!!! We matched photo cards with their description, and recorded it on their notebook page 24.

Thursday – Today we analyzed a picture of a houseplant, and recorded our thoughts on our graphic organizer. We started a notebook page Plants we eat — and we will finish it on Monday.

** We will stay in homerooms tomorrow due to Homecoming Festivities.

What’s Happening in Science – 8/31 – 9/4

I’m so excited about Science this week!! We are wrapping up our Introduction to Science unit this week, and we will start Life Science next Thursday.

Monday – Today we finished our science stations. I discussed the stations here.

Tuesday – We reviewed notebook pages 1-11 for our Science quiz tomorrow. We also talked about our Notebook Rubric. I will be using that to grade their notebooks toward the end of the week. We discussed our expectations for group work and created a notebook page on page 12.

Wednesday – We will take a Science quiz today. Students may use the extra time to complete unfinished pages or AR read.

Thursday/Friday – Notebooks are all to be in the baskets in our classroom. I will be grading those on Thursday and Friday. Students will be completing STEM challenges. I will be posting pics!!

Introduction to Science Stations – 8/28 and 8/31

We are completing Science Stations using the lab sheets pictured below. These stations were purchased from the Science Penguin. You can find her teacher pay teacher store here.

Each station lasts about eight minutes.

Station 1 – Students measured temperature of water with thermometers. After measuring, they compared data and recorded it on their lab sheet.

Station 2 – Students measured the volume of water with graduated cylinders and recorded/illustrated the data on their sheet.

Station 3 – This station should be called the what was I thinking station. Students used stopwatches to record the length of time it took to do various tasks like hopping on one foot. They then calculated the elapsed time it had taken to roll a ball across the room.

Station 4 – This lab called for students to observe various object with and without a hand lens.

Station 5 –

Students traced and measured an object using centimeters.

Station 6 – Students looked at objects to determine the best way to classify them.

Station 7 — extra station to be completed during down time. This station calls for students to draw a safety tool and explain the purpose of it in Science.

I have a special shout out for a group of boys. They were my best group hands down all day long. They worked so hard! Good job!!!

I’m closing with a picture of Draco. I’m so hoping he sheds over the weekend. He looks horrible, and I know he has to be super itchy. He will be so shiny once he does!!

Have a good weekend!!!

Love,

Mrs. Goggans