THEME: Energy Transformations
UNITS:
Ecosystems Electricity - atoms
Solar Energy - weather and alternative energies
Nutrition
LEARNING GOALS FOR SCIENCE:
- Maintain an organized lab notebook
- Write independent, open-ended questions/reflections
- Write more questions after completing experiments
- Take notes in lab notebooks
- Deliver oral presentations
- Practice steps of Engineering Design Process
- Identify challenge, brainstorm, design, build, test, evaluate, redesign, share solution
- Practice Scientific Method
- ORHECK (observation, research, question, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion, knowledge)
- Begin to connect experiments and content
- Read scientific literature
- Ask scientific questions
- Sort scientific questions in curiosity box and understand the difference between “what?” and “why?” questions
- Discuss “what happened” in experiments and theorize “why”
- Use and apply technology
TECHNOLOGY
EQUIPMENT TYPICALLY USED: 1:1 iPads ; camcorders; desktops; digital cameras; document cameras; headphones; iPods; USB microphones
APPLICATIONS TYPICALLY USED: Animation software; book publishing applications;
Dreambox; graphics editing software; iLife® Suite; Internet browsers; iWork Suite;
IXL; Microsoft® Office Suite; typing applications; screencasting applications;
RAZ KidsCORE RESOURCES:
LEGO® WeDo and LEGO®
Mindstorms®, LEGO® Education;
Hopscotch, Hopscotch Technologies;
Scratch, MIT Media Lab
LEARNING GOALS FOR PROGRAMMING
- Motion (move, rotate/turn, change x,y, point in direction)
- Lines (leave a trail, set line width, set line color, clear)
- Looks (scale by, change costume, show/hide)
- Sound (play sound, change volume, change tempo)
- Controls (repeat, wait, forever)
- Develop understanding of positive/negative numbers, relational symbols, measurement, four quadrants, x,y coordinates, regular polygons
LEARNING GOALS FOR ROBOTICS
- Movement (moving straight, turning)
- Move until (sensors)
MATHEMATICS
CORE RESOURCE:
Bridges in Mathematics, Math Learning Center
Context for Learning Mathematics, Catherine Twomey Fosnot
LEARNING GOALS FOR MATHEMATICS:
NUMBER SENSE AND OPERATIONS
- Solve addition and subtraction problems to the ten thousands place using regrouping strategies
- Understand place value to 100,000 and can conceptualize the value of 10,000
- Round numbers to the nearest 1,000 to estimate and compare
- Memorize to automaticity the single digit addition and subtraction facts
- Understand that multiplication means times and makes the connection between multiplication, arrays, and area
- Memorize to automaticity the multiplication facts (1-6)
- Apply multiplication facts beyond the sixes in problem solving
- Understand and use the inverse relationship between multiplication and division
- Use estimation strategies to compute, solve, and check problems
- Develop understanding of fractions as parts of a whole, as parts of a group, as locations on number lines, as divisions of whole numbers, and to represent probability
- Understand that fractions and decimals are two different representations of the same concept (e.g., 50 cents is 1/2 of dollar, 75 cents is 3/4 of a dollar)
ALGEBRA AND FUNCTIONS
- Understand and use relational symbols and parentheses in number sentences (<, >, =)
- Solve open sentences that use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
- Write number sentences to represent story problems
GEOMETRY AND MEASUREMENT
- Describe and sort two and three dimensional shapes according to properties
- Identify different types of angles and understand lines, line segments, and rays
- Use U.S. customary units to conceptualize and measure length (inches, feet, and yards)
- Determine the perimeter and area of polygons
- Tell time to the nearest minute on an analog clock
STATISTICS, DATA ANALYSIS, AND PROBABILITY
- Read, interpret, and analyze data and create charts or graphs
- Experiment with materials to design and build a beam, arch, or suspension bridge model
PROBLEM SOLVING
- Determine the approach, materials, and strategies to be used
- Use tools, such as manipulatives or sketches, to model problems
- Represent solutions in alternative ways (e.g., charts, graphs, pictures, arrays)
- Explain and justify math thinking in oral and written form