Earth Science: States of Matter and Weather

Weather Anywhere

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Benchmark 3.2E.1 IDENTIFY THE EARTH AS A PLANET AND DESCRIBE ITS SEASONAL WEATHER PATTERNS OF PRECIPITATION AND TEMPERATURE.

Lesson 1–Solids, Liquids, and Gases

• TB: Changes of State Transitions
• B: What is Matter?
• D, SB: STATES OF MATTER FACT SHEET
• BBC: Test
• Engineering Connection: Solid, Liquid or Gas? - identify materials as solids, liquids, or gases

Lesson 2–Condensation and Evaporation

• A: Water and Ice
• A: Disappearing Water
• A: Freezing and Melting
• A: Changing State On-Line
• A: States of Matter
• BBC: Activity (Slide Show)
• BBC: Test
• A: Evaporation Experiment
• A: Dew and frost?
• Engineering Connection: Witnessing Evaporation - conduct a study of evaporation and transpiration

Lesson 3 Condensation causes Clouds

• A: Cloud and Sky Colors
• TB: Cool Clouds for "Kids" of All Ages

Lesson 4–Water Cycle and Winter Precipitation

• A: Water Cycle Investigation
• A: Water cycle in a mayonaise jar
• A: Visible Water Vapor
• A: Make a rain gauge
• D: Water cycle
• D, SB: Enchanted Learning: Water Cycle
• CAPABLE STUDENT – Winter Storms
• TB: Severe Weather - Winter Weather
• TB: Severe Weather - Thunderstorms
• TB: Severe Weather - Hail

Lesson 6 Record Temperature

• A: Four Part Lesson on Heat and Shadow
• A: Parachuting Pinwheel
• A: Make a thermometer
• A: Heat melts candy
• A: Color and heat
• A: Color reflects heat
• A: Heat reflected from a playground
• TB: About Heat and Temperature

Lesson 7 Heat in Oregon

• A: Read a Thermometer
• A: Make a Thermometer
• A: Temperature and color
• TB: World Sunlight Map
• TB: Lightning History
• TB: Lightning Science
• TB: Lightning Detection

Weather Anywhere

A Weather Page By First Graders

A: Coloring Books to Download

TB: Weather in a nutshell

Engineering Connection

• Build an Anemometer

Ask an Expert

• Ask a Scientist Archive
• Ask a NASA scientist climate archive

Craft Activities from Enchantedlearning.com

• Study Patterns in Snowflakes
• Handprint rainbow
• Rainbow streamer
• Rainbow mobile
• Snowman Necklace

Language Activities

• vocabulary for autumn
• vocabulary for winter
• vocabulary for spring
• vocabulary for summer
• Seasons and weather books

Local Weather from NOAA

• Astoria
• Aurora
• Baker City
• Burns
• Corvallis
• The Dalles
• Eugene
• Klamath Falls
• La Grande
• Lakeview
• McMinnville
• Medford
• North Bend
• Ontario
• Pendleton
• Portland
• Roseburg

Linking to Literature

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Make a Pamphlet
• Describe Clouds
• Technology and Literacy
• Lesson Plans to Consider

Math Activities

• Graph evaporating puddles
• Dishes of water

Snacks

• Rainbow in a cup
• Weather Snacks
• Weather Snacks from Mrs. Bee
• Rainbow Pizza

Very Capable Students

• See a Raindrop
• Make a Tornado
• Tornado in a Jar

Ask an Expert

• Ask an Oregon Scientist
• Ask a NASA scientist climate archive

Careers in Science

• Becoming a Meteorologist

Craft

• Hear the Wind
• Origami pinwheels
• Make a simple rainstick
• Make a Rainstick
• Paper snowflakes

Language Activities

• Meteorology A-Z (use for a weather alphabet book)
• WAY MORE WORDS!
• Weather Jokes
• Hurricane Storm Names
• Teacher CyberGuide: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Meteorology A-Z, glossary and book

Math Activities

• Track a Thunderstorm
• Record the size of a raindrop
• Sunrise/Sunset/Moonrise/Moonset
• Cloud pictures, classification

Social Studies

• Weather Safety
• D: US current weather map
• D: US current temperature map
• D: US current temperature change map
• D: US current wind map
• D: Oregon current precipitation map
• D: Oregon temperature change map
• D: Oregon wind map
• TB: About Rainbows

Spanish Pages

• Water Cycle Beginner
• Water Cycle Intermediate
• Water Cycle Advanced
• Weather Underground

Very Capable Students

• Learn how to report and predict weather
• Test Humidity with Pine Cones
• What's In the Rain?
• What's in the Wind?
• See a Raindrop
• Weather satellites
• Become an Expert A-Z for weather part 1
• Become an Expert A-Z for weather part 2

 

Life Science: Arthropods

Lesson 9–Introduce Arthropods

• A: LADYBUG UNIT
• A: SPIDER UNIT
• A: On line Dichotomous Key
• A: Insect Modeling
• A: Cricket Study
• A: Keeping crickets in the classroom
• A: Keeping grasshoppers
• A: Zoo for Insects
• VIDEO: Learn about Bees
• TB: Bug Bios
• TB: Phylum Arthropoda-Insects
• TB: Butterfly wing patterns
• D, SB: Grasshopper Information
• D, SB: Cricket Information
• D, SB: Basic information about insects
• TB: Field Guide to Grasshoppers
• D: Smithsonian Photo Data Base

Lesson 10–Exoskeletons and Molting

Lesson 11–Blending

• Animal Shapes and Colors

Lesson 12–Insect Sandwich

• A: Label a cricket
• A: Label a grasshopper
• A: Label a spider
• A: Label an insect
• A: Label an ant
• A: Label a beetle
• A: Make a compound eye

Lesson 13–Habitat

• The Great Plant Escape

3.1L.1 COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE CHARACTERISTICS OF OFFSPRING AND PARENTS.
3.2L.1 COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE LIFE CYCLES OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS.

Lesson 14–Life Cycle

• D, SB: Life cycle
• D: Ladybug Life Cycle
• D: Ladybug Life Cycle
• D: Ant Life Cycle
• D: Ant Life Cycle
• TB: Cricket Life Cycle
• D: Life Cylce of a Cricket
• TB: Introduction to Insect Life Cycles
• TB: What do we call animal babies?

Lesson 15–Food Chain

• habitats and food chains
• forest food webs
• Food Chain

 

Engineering Resources

• Create a Mealworm Habitat
• Habitat using a Recycled Produce Container
• Making a Habitat for a Caterpillar
• Build Your Own Insect Trap

Crafts

• Egg Carton Lady Bug
• Twig Picture Frame
• Make a litter bug
• Insect coloring Book
• Butterfly coloring book
• Butterfly calendar
• Ladybug puppet
• Balancing butterfly
• Pom pom spider
• Egg carton spider
• Big balloon spider
• Insect Art and Ornaments
• Paper mache insects
• Insect ornaments

Language Arts

• CyberGuide: Charlotte's Web
• Rhyme: Ant
• Rhyme: Bee
• Rhyme: Fiddle Dee Dee
• Rhyme: Flea and the Fly
• Rhyme: Over in the Meadow
• Rhyme: There Was an Old Lady...
• Rhyme: Itsy Bitsy Spider
• Rhyme: Little Miss Muffet
• Bug bookmark to print
• Insect verses
• 12 Bugs of Christmas
• Seek a Word Puzzle
• Bug riddles

Music

• Insect Songs, Sounds
• Grasshopper sounds
• Cricket Body Part Song

Snacks

• Insect Themed Food
• "Cup of worms" snack

Social Studies

• Products from the Forest

 

TB, SB: Animal Planets Insects

 

 

Enchanted Learning: INSECTS

Capable students

• Become an Expert A-Z for Insects

Physical Science: Motion

 

3.2P.1 DESCRIBE HOW FORCES CAUSE CHANGES IN AN OBJECT'S POSITION, MOTION, AND SPEED.

Lesson 19–Air and Water Pressure

• A: Parachute Man
• A: Falling and Gliding
• A: Classify Objects that Float or Sink
• A: Whirling Wonders
• A: Flying Hoops
• A: Spinning Blimps
• Engineering Connection: Fun with Bernoulli - use Bernoulli's Principle to manipulate air pressure

Lesson 20–Tools

• A: Simple Machines On-Line Activities
• A: Simple Machines

Lesson 21–Inclined Planes

Engineering Connections

• An Introduction to Inclined Planes
• Heave Ho! - dragging an object up a ramp is easier than lifting the object up

Lesson 22–Levers

• A: The Incredible Lever
• B: Levers

Lesson 23–Demonstrate a Pulley

Lesson 24–Gears

 

Engineering Connection

• ENGINEERING UNIT - use knowledge of simple machines to design and build a pyramid
• Build Your Own Mobile

From SMILE

• The Soup Roll
• Newton's Third Law
• Super Ball Physics
• Newton's Third Law
• St. Patrick's Day Pull toy

Curriculum Connections

• Literature Links for Air Pressure
• Performing Arts for Air Pressure
• Social Studies for Air Pressure
• Language Arts for Air Pressure

Very Capable Students

• The compound machine –how simple machines work together to create a compound machine
• Become a boat expert A-Z for boats
• Become a tool expert A-Z for tools
• Making Objects Move
• Measure the rate of rolling objects
• Plan, build, and test a ramp
• File Card Bridges
• Geodesic Gumdrops