New Spring '97 . R - Beginning Electricity and Magnets and Compasses. Students discover the conditions necessary for electrical and magnetic interaction. Over 200 pages of new AIMS materials are available to integrate massive amounts of mathematics into this unit. It offers students an ideal opportunity for learning and practicing observation and classification skills.
Fingerprints demonstrate both the uniqueness and commonalities found in humans.
Lungs of the Earth- helps students develop an understanding of the rainforest in producing oxygen. Students perform experiments to learn about plant transpiration, and practice metacognition to evaluate their thinking. Learning is transferred to an investigation of the salt marsh ecosystem- expanding concepts begun in Structures of Life in grade three. Water quality is measured scientifically, using laboratory analysis methods to take the pulse of local pond water. Oceanography is an interdisciplinary unit that examines water systems if the earth through the eyes of a geologist, chemist, biologist, and physicist.