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Physical Science: Force
5.2P.1 DESCRIBE HOW FRICTION, GRAVITY, AND MAGNETIC FORCES AFFECT OBJECTS ON OR NEAR THE EARTH.
Lesson 1–Friction
Engineering Connection
- Engineer a Sneaker - design a shoe
- Fascinating Friction - investigate lubrication between materials to understand friction
- Fancy Feet - design, build, and test a pair of wearable shoes
Lesson 2 - Invent a Pencil
- V: LET'S MAKE A PENCIL VIDEO
- V: How Pencils are Made - engineering explained - NOTE: Skip the intro commercial
- V: How the "lead" is created and the pencil is made by Faber-Castell - NOTE: Skip the last minute
- V: How an eraser is made - NOTE: The last 10 seconds explains how the eraser remove marks
- A: pencil making lesson plan
- B: cost of making a pencil
- B: eraser trivia
- B: pencil trivia
Lesson 3–Penny Spin, Lesson 4–Center of Gravity, Lesson 5–Penny Drop
- A: Spinning Blimps
- A: Running Stop--Inertia
- A: Animal Crash--Inertia
- A: Swing and Jump--Inertia
- A: Penny in a Glass--Inertia
- A: Coin Flick
- A: Reluctant Movers
- A: Inertia Demonstrations
- A: Inertia Demonstrations
- A: What Goes Up Investigation
- A: Butterfly Balancer
Lesson 5–Penny Drop
Lesson 7–Pendulums
Lesson 8–Introduce Magnetism
Lesson 9–Magnetic Poles and Fields Capable students- Help the highway patrol recreate a deadly crash by examining evidence and calculating force.
- Amusement Park Physics
- Engineering Connection: The Puck Stops Here
- Strawkets and Thrust - launch paper rockets using a straw
- Strawkets and Weight - launch paper rockets after changing the mass of the rockets
- Strawkets and Control - launch paper rockets with fins
- Pop Rockets - launch paper rockets using antacid tablets to provide thrust
- Swinging With Style - design timekeeping devices powered by human swinging
- Build an Electromagnet - test the strength of an electromagnet
- Wow! That Captures It! - learn how motion capture (mo-cap) enables animators to create realistic effects
- Engineering in Reverse! - take a toy apart to suggest ways to engineer it so its a better toy
- Heads Up - learn about parts of an airplane by making paper airplanes
- Better by Design - test a paper airplane's control surfaces
- Balsa Glider Competition - test variables using a glider model
Force | Astronomy and Weather | Mammals
- Key for science links:
- A = Activity
- D = Diagram or Illustration used by teacher or students
- TB = Teacher Background
- SB = Student Background (adapt for additional reading for students)
- I = Interactive Web Site
- L = List of Links to other sites
Earth Science: Astronomy and Weather
5.1E.1 DESCRIBE THE SUN-EARTH-MOON SYSTEM.
Lesson 10–Orbits
- A: Make a Sun Clock
- TB: Fact Sheet
Lesson 11–Eclipses
- D, TB: Solar Eclipse Animations
- Observe solar eclipses.
- Observe a lunar eclipse
- D, TB: NASA's Eclipse page
- TB: Eclipses from the Exploratorium
Lesson 12–Phases
- Examine the phases of the moon from Earth and space
- The Moon Investigation
- D: CURRENT PHASE
- TB: Fact Sheet
- SB: Why Eclipses Happen
- D: Phases of the Moon animation
- A: Phases of the Moon demo
- Engineering Connection: Lunar Learning - identify the phases of the moon, the positions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun, and the difference between waxing and waning
5.2E.1 EXPLAIN HOW ENERGY FROM THE SUN AFFECTS EARTH'S WEATHER AND CLIMATE.
Lesson 13–Heat
- TB: animation of land surface temperature February 2000 to February 2011
- TB: animation of sea surface temperature July 2002 to February 2011
Lesson 14–Air
- A: Make a tornado
- A: Tornado in a jar
- A: Make thunder with a bag
- A: Make a barometer
- A: Make your own barometer
- A: Make a wind streamer
- A: Make a wind vane
- A: Make a wind vane
- A: Make a wind gauge
- A: Measuring wind speed
- A: Wind speed and direction
- A: Tornado in a bottle
- A: Make a compass
- A: Air Pressure
- A: Make a wind vane
- TB: Animation of land and sea breezes
- TB: Sea Breezes
- TB: Land Breezes
- TB: Severe Weather - Tornadoes
- TB: Severe Weather - Damaging Winds
Lesson 15–Water Cycle and Clouds
- A: Water Cycle Investigation
- A: Simple water cycle
- A: Make a Psychrometer
- A: Measure relative humidity
- A: Make a rain gauge
- A: Make a rain gauge
- TB: animation of rainfall January 1998 to February 2011
- TB: animation of cloud cover January 2005 - February 2011
- SB: Water Cycle Beginner
- TB: Water Cycle Intermediate
- TB: Water Cycle Advanced
- TB: Cool Clouds for "Kids" of All Ages
- SB: The Water Cycle
- D: USGS The Water Cycle
- D: Water Cycle Diagram Only
- D: Images of Hail
- TB: Precipitation - an online guide
- TB: Cloud Types
- TB: Severe Weather - Thunderstorms
- TB: How are Hurricanes Created?
- L: The Ultimate Water Cycle Lesson Page
Lesson 16–Seasons
- Reasons for the Seasons Investigation
- Seeds in Fall...Collect Them All Investigation
- Fall Slumbers Investigation
- Spring Awakenings Investigation
- A: Tilt of the Earth and seasons
- D: Climate in your Oregon city
- TB: Bad Meteorology
- TB: Weather events
- TB: Weather Forecasting
- TB: Daily Temperatures for Decades
- TB: Local Climate Data
Engineering Connections for Astronomy
- Lunar Lollipops - model the phases of the moon with a foam ball and pencil
- Space Shelter - design a shelter that will allow you to survive on another planet in our solar system
- Lunch in Outer Space! - learn about the unique challenges astronauts face while eating in outer space
- Bombs Away! - design, build, and test a device to protect and accurately deliver a dropped egg
Engineering Connections for Meteorology
- A House is a House for Me - build model houses for different climate
- Good News - We're on the Rise! - construct a simple aneroid barometer
- Wild Wind - make a simple wind vane
- Windstorm - learn about how tornadoes are formed and what they look like using a water vortex
- Tornado Damage! - learn about tornadoes, the damage they cause, and the rating scale
- Build It Better! - draw a design for a structure that will withstand and protect people from tornadoes
- Witnessing Evaporation - conduct a study of evaporation and transpiration
- Air Pressure - discuss units of pressure and get a sense of how much air pushes on humans
- Air - Is it Really There? - perform several simple experiments to develop an understanding of air
- Moving without Wheels - use a simple water cycle model to understand how water transports pollution
- Where Does all the Water Go? - demonstrate groundwater flow in a water cycle
Art/Craft
Ask an Expert
Careers in Science
Language
Social Studies
Capable Students
- Become an astronomy expert A-Z astronomy
- Dripping Wet or Dry as a Bone
- How Predicatable!
- Battling for Oxygen - model the depletion of the ozone layer with gumdrops and toothpicks
Force | Astronomy and Weather | Mammals
- Key for science links:
- A = Activity
- D = Diagram or Illustration used by teacher or students
- TB = Teacher Background
- SB = Student Background (adapt for additional reading for students)
- I = Interactive Web Site
- L = List of Links to other sites
Life Science: Land Mammals
5.2L.1 EXPLAIN THE INTERDEPENCE OF PLANTS, ANIMALS, AND ENVIRONMENT AND HOW ADAPTATION INFLUENCES SURVIVAL.
Lesson 17–Introduce Land Mammals, Lesson 18–Animal Coverings, Lesson 19–Animal Colors
- A: Keeping Insides In! - skin
- A: Cat unit adapt to gr 5
- A: All about mammals
- A: Bobcat printout
- A: Cat Printouts
- A: Grassland Printouts
- A: Desert Animal Printouts
- A: Feline Physics
- VIDEO: Lion Encounter
- TB: Burke Mammalogy
- SB: Mammal World
- SB: The Cheetah Spot
- SB: Mammal Classification
- SB: Cats from Mild to Wild
- D, SB: Big Cats Online
- D, SB: Mild Cat Breeds
- D, SB: National Geographic
- Cats
- Small Mammals
- Large Mammals
- Domestic Cats
From Kidsplanet
L: Animal Bytes
From bcadventure.com
| Bobcat | Cougar | Coyote |
| Deer | Elk | Lynx |
5.1L.1 EXPLAIN THAT ORGANISMS ARE COMPOSED OF PARTS THAT FUNCTION TOGETHER TO FORM A LIVING SYSTEM.
Lesson 20–Cat Sandwich
Engineering Connections for anatomy
- Walk, Run, Jump! - timed relay races that use the skeletal muscles
- 20/20 Vision - what is good eyesight? how can eyesight be enhanced?
- Just Breathe - create a model set of lungs
- The Beat Goes On - construct a simple device to make it easy to see your heart beat
- Do you have the Strength? - demonstrate the strength of the human heart with a tennis ball
- Muscles, Muscles Everywhere - learn about the 3 kinds of muscles and how muscles change in outer space
- Patterns and Fingerprints - apply several methods to identify and interpret patterns in fingerprints
- Sticks and Stones Will Break that Bone! - learn about the strength of bones and methods of mending fractures
Lesson 21-Habitat
- SB: Desert Questions and Answers
- SB: DESERT BIOME
- SB: TEMPERATE GRASSLAND BIOME
- TB: Central Washington Native Plants
- B: Desert
- B: Desert
- B: Grasslands
- B: Grasslands
- B: Desert Plants
- B: Animal survival
- B: Desert USA
Lesson 22–Life Cycle
- D, SB: Life cycle of a bobcat
Lesson 23–Food Chain
- A: Prairie Food Web (pdf)
- A: Food chain with paper
- D, SB: Bobcat food chain
- Bury Your Trash! - what happens to trash buried for two to three months?
- Population Density: How Much Space Do You Have? - how does population density affect city planning?
- Biodomes Engineering Design Unit - create a model biodome
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- Key for science links:
- A = Activity
- D = Diagram or Illustration used by teacher or students
- TB = Teacher Background
- SB = Student Background (adapt for additional reading for students)
- I = Interactive Web Site
- L = List of Links to other sites