Representation: Students will present a science project. Essential Question: What did you learn during my experiment? Identify information based on observations and experiments of self and others. Recognize that people conduct activities and share information about science. Identify ways that science can be used to study different areas, such as life science, earth and space science, and physical science. Recognize that science includes different areas, such as life science, earth and space science, and physical science. Associate objects and activities with science. Identify that the process used in scientific investigations involves asking a research question, forming a hypothesis, reviewing what is already known, collecting evidence through observations or experiments, determining results, and reaching conclusions. Recognize that the basic process used in scientific investigations involves questioning, observing, and recording and sharing results. Recognize science as a way to solve problems about the natural world. Learning Goals Access Points Weekly Assignments Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will recognize that the Earth’s surface changes in many ways. Describe how weathering and erosion reshape the Earth’s surface. Weekly Assignment 5: Describe how weathering and erosion affects the Earth’s surface.
Representation: Students will investigate weather and its effects. Essential Question: How can erosion change a beach? Recognize that wind and water cause physical weathering and erosion. Recognize that water can move soil. Demonstrate how older rock layers are deposited at the bottom before younger layers (Law of Superposition). Recognize that mountains change size and shape over a long period of time. Recognize that ground on the Earth’s surface changes over time. Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will identify examples of landforms. Representation: Students will explore the lakes and rivers of Florida. Essential Question: How are landforms created? Identify various landforms in Florida, including coastlines, rivers, lakes, and dunes. Recognize different landforms in Florida, including beaches (coastlines), rivers, and lakes. Recognize a landform in Florida, such as a beach (coastline), river, or lake. Recognize that slow changes, such as mountain-building, and fast changes, such as volcanic eruptions, are caused by shifts below Earth’s surface. Recognize that mountains change size and shape over a long period of time. Discriminate between surface features of ground on Earth, such as rocky/sandy, flat/hilly, rough/smooth, or solid/liquid. Identify models used in the context of one’s own study of science. Recognize models used in the context of one’s own study of science. Associate a model with an activity used in the context of one’s own study of science. Weekly Assignment 6: Identify various landforms in Florida (lakes, rivers, coastlines, and dunes). Learning Goals Access Points Weekly Assignments Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will recognize tools used to measure weather. Identify the way elements of weather are measured, including temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and precipitation. Weekly Assignment 7: Explore the elements of weather, including the tools needed to measure: temperature,
Representation: Students will demonstrate uses for electricity. Essential Question: What, in my classroom, uses electricity? Observe and recognize a predictable cause-effect relationship related to a science topic. Recognize that one form of energy can change to other forms of energy, such as solar panels change light into electricity. Recognize that energy can change forms, such as electricity produces light and heat in a lamp. Recognize that electrical devices need energy to work. Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will measure the size of chosen substances. Representation: Students will investigate the physical properties of a substance. Essential Question: How can I measure weight? Identify that white (visible) light has many colors, such as when viewed with a prism. Recognize that white (visible) light contains many colors, such as viewed with a prism or rainbow. Recognize primary colors of a rainbow. Observe and compare substances based on their physical properties, such as thermal and electrical conductivity, solubility, or magnetic properties. Observe and compare substances by physical properties, such as weight, size, boiling and melting points, and magnetic properties. Recognize substances by physical properties, such as weight (heavy and light), size (big and small), and temperature (hot and cold). Weekly Assignment 11: Categorize substances by physical properties (weight, size, boiling and melting points). Learning Goals Access Points Weekly Assignments Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will identify types of energy. Identify energy as stored (potential) or expressed in motion (kinetic). Recognize examples of stored energy, such as in a roller coaster. Weekly Assignment 12: Differentiate between potential and kinetic energy.
Representation: Students will describe the differences between kinetic and potential energy. Essential Question: What is kinetic energy? Distinguish between objects in motion (kinetic energy) and at rest. Identify an example of a change in scientific knowledge based on new evidence or new interpretations. Recognize an example of a change in scientific knowledge based on new evidence. Recognize information related to science. Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will use science tools to explore the world around them. Representation: Students will record information after using a magnifying tool. Essential Question: What do you see? Identify that scientists can use different kinds of experiments, methods, and explanations to find answers to scientific questions. Recognize contributions of well-known scientists. Recognize a scientist as a person who works with science. Identify technology used by scientists to locate, view, and study objects in space. Recognize that scientists use special tools to examine objects in space. Recognize a technology tool created for space exploration and adapted for personal use, such as computers, telescopes, or satellites. Weekly Assignment 13: Use a magnifying tool to observe and record information. Learning Goals Access Points Weekly Assignments Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will demonstrate gravitational pull. Representation: Students will investigate types of forces. Identify examples of gravitational and contact forces, such as falling objects or push and pull. Distinguish between pushing and pulling forces (contact) and falling (gravitational force) of an object. Recognize that pushing or pulling makes an object move (contact force). Weekly Assignments 14 & 15: Investigate at least two types of forces (contact forces, electrical, magnetic, or gravitational pull).
Essential Question: What are types of forces? Recognize that the weight of an object is related to the pull of gravity. Compare the weight of different sized objects. Recognize the heavier of two objects. Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will recognize example of mixtures. Representation: Students will investigate chemical changes. Essential Question: How does mixing objects change them? Identify familiar topics included in the study of science. Recognize familiar topics in the study of science. Recognize objects and pictures related to science. Identify that when heat is added or taken away, a temperature change occurs. Recognize what happens to the temperature when heat is added. Recognize that a hot object can make a cold object warm when they touch. Recognize that the weight of an object is related to the pull of gravity. Recognize examples of pure substances and mixtures. Separate a mixture into its parts. Weekly Assignments 16 & 17: Explore different types of mixtures and note the chemical changes and their effects on objects. Learning Goals Access Points Weekly Assignments Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will define speed. Representation: Students will create a launchable object propelled by chemical reactions. Essential Question: How does my object move? Identify that speed describes the distance and time in which an object is moving, such as miles per hour. Recognize that speed describes how far an object travels in a given amount of time. Recognize that traveling longer distances takes more time, such as going to the cafeteria takes longer than going across the classroom. Observe and classify changes in matter as physical (reversible) or chemical (irreversible). Weekly Assignment 18: Create a launchable object (propelled by chemical reactions) and use it to explore speed (distance and time).
HE.8.B.4.Su.d Choose an effective way to ask for and offer assistance to enhance the health of self and others, such as asking for help, getting help for others, or listening actively. HE.8.B.4.Pa.d Recognize positive ways to ask for and offer assistance to enhance the health of self and others, such as asking for help, getting help for others, or listening actively. Learning Goals Access Points Weekly Assignments Essential Understanding: Concrete: Students will identify healthy foods. Representation: Students will describe ways to exercise. Essential Question: Why is an active, healthy lifestyle important? HE.6.B.4.In.a Determine a strategy to improve effective verbal- and nonverbal-communication skills to enhance health, such as role-playing or open-ended scenarios. HE.6.B.4.Su.a Use a strategy to improve effective verbal- and nonverbal-communication skills to enhance health, such as role-playing or open-ended scenarios. HE.6.B.4.Pa.a Use a communication strategy to express wants, needs, or requests to enhance health. HE.7.B.4.In.a Use selected skills for communicating effectively with family, peers, and others to enhance health, such as using clear and concise words, nonverbal language, discussion, and “I” messages. HE.7.B.4.Su.a Use selected skills for communicating effectively with family and peers to enhance health, such as using clear and concise words, nonverbal language, or “I” messages. HE.7.B.4.Pa.a Use more than one way to communicate personal wants and needs to others to enhance health, such as verbalizing and choosing from options. HE.8.B.4.In.a Identify strategies for effective verbal and nonverbal communication with family, peers, and others to Weekly Assignments 31 & 32: Create a commercial to convince people to stay healthy through the practices of exercise and healthy eating.