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1 1 st Unit: Scientific Method Know the seven steps of the scientific method The students will complete a study guide of and use them to solve scientific problems the 7 steps Identify the problem, form a hypothesis, test a hypothesis WEEK 1-2 OBJECTIVE Continuous Objective: Implement the Scientific Method throughout science experiments Observe, record, and analyze data Make a conclusion and conduct further experimentation Students complete a quiz over scientific method Students will apply the scientific method on a test that incorporates the earlier quiz with an additional application of the scientific method Unit: Life Science; Ecology, Ch 1 Classifying Plants and Animals WEEK 3-4 OBJECTIVE Identify specialized structures and senses describing how they help plants and animals survive in their environment Unit: Life Science; Ecology, Chapter 3 Ecosystems 1,2,3 WEEK 5-6 OBJECTIVES Analyze, differentiate, and classify consumers, producers, and decomposers Recognize cues for organisms behavior and identify and predict plant or animal survival and interaction with our environment Compare and contrast common fossils found in Missouri to organisms present on Earth today I know that all living things have cells I can describe, and label the kingdom of living things I can define and describe a cell I can label the parts of a plant cell I can classify plants and animals I can use a microscope I can describe how animals adapt to their surroundings Know most living things get energy from the sun Construct a food web and food chain Define herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore Show how energy flows in an ecosystem I can define a system; desert, grassland, tundra, forest, tropical, and rainforest ecosystem Define a habitat Identify trilobites, ferns, crinoids, bivalves, fish, mastodon, and gastropods The students will complete a lab sheet of a plant cell drawing The students will complete a concept web for plant and animal classification The students will label a lab sheet of the parts of a microscope The students will construct a food chain and write a brief summary of its contents The students will journal a collage of ecosystems with a description of each ecosystem in a chart like display The students will define and draw the identification of each of the learned Missouri fossils The student will create a power point presentation of all chapter vocabulary Students will complete the Chapter 1 assessment of classifying plants and animals The student will complete the Chapter 3 assessment of ecosystems

2 Unit: Life Science, Ecology Chapter 4 Changes in Ecosystems WEEK 7 OBJECTIVES Recognize how different environments support the life of plants and animals Unit: Life Science, Health, and Nutrition Chapter 5 Systems of the Human Body WEEK 8-9 OBJECTIVES Analyze, classify, and describe the food Pyramid and the importance of Healthy Living Explain how people disturb the balance of an ecosystem Tell how ecosystems are balanced Know how environments change Can define competition, parasite, host, extinct, endangered and hazardous waste Recognize the food pyramid know each of the food groups while understanding what each serving suggestion is for a healthy body Define and describe what each of the skeletal, muscular, respiratory, circulatory, and nervous systems do in the body Define voluntary and involuntary muscles The students will complete an exit slip What did I learn today? The students will complete a journal entry of the vocabulary definitions The students will complete the clicker quiz of the changes in ecosystems The students will create and share a 7 day menu in a power point in class while using the food pyramid as a reference The students will label the skeletal and respiratory systems The students will complete the Chapter 4 assessment of Changes in Ecosystems The students will complete the Chapter 5 assessment The students will complete a vocabulary assessment of Chapters 1 through 5 Describe, label, and construct the skeletal system Define Infectious disease, pathogens, immune system, and vaccine

3 Unit: Earth Science, Earth Systems Chapter 8 Minerals and Rocks WEEK 1 OBJECTIVES Observe and compare the physical properties of rocks and mixtures of different earth materials Define minerals, luster, Mohs scale, sediment, sedimentary rock, igneous rock, metamorphic rock Determine the hardness of a mineral Describe the sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rock processes Describe the rock cycle The students will complete a quiz to show the seven steps of the scientific method and 10 questions showing knowledge of rocks and minerals The students will complete the Chapter 8 assessment covering Minerals and Rocks Unit: Earth Science Changes to Earth s Surface 1 Chapter 9 WEEK 2 OBJECTIVES Identify earth s landforms and describe the weathering agents and erosion process Unit: Earth Science Changes to Earth s Systems 2 Chapter 9 WEEK 3 OBJECTIVES Identify the human effect on the environment Know processes of weathering and erosion change the surface of the earth Know that the earth s surface can change rapidly or slowly Know how weathering and erosion move the earth s surface with constant change Define landform, weathering, erosion, deposition, landslide, volcano, fault, earthquake, epicenter Describe earth s landforms; mountains, valleys, canyons, plains, plateaus, and peninsulas Describe erosion process of action of gravity, waves, wind, river, and glaciers Identify ways humans effect the environment by clearing land, planting vegetation, paving land, constructing new buildings, farming, mining, recycling, composting, and decreasing soil erosion Understand the necessity to conserve energy The students will complete each section of How well do you know comprehension questions at the end of each lesson the chapter review questions The students will complete Chapter 9 assessment covering Changes to Earth s Systems The students will complete Chapter 9 assessment covering Changes to Earth s Systems

4 Unit: Earth Science Describe the properties of earth materials the Chapter 10 Identify properties of soil lesson review questions in journal format Using Natural Resources Describe the sun as a source of heat and light The students will complete a quiz WEEK 4 OBJECTIVES Know what a nonrenewable resource is Identifies and describe the Describe a fossil fuel and how it is made components of soil and its properties The students complete Chapter 9 assessment coveringthe Changes to Earth s Systems Chapter 11 Properties of Matter WEEK 5 OBJECTIVES Compare, measure, combine, and separate the physical properties of matter Define density, mixture, solution, solute, solvent, solubility, physical change, and chemical change Detect the difference between physical and chemical change Observe, identify, and classify the states of matter using common things found in the classroom Describe and compare the volume of an object using a graduated cylinder Observe and describe mixtures Recognize that mass remains the same together or apart the lesson review questions in journal format The students will conduct an experiment to show their knowledge of the scientific method and knowledge of mixtures, measuring, and combinations Chapter 11 assessment

5 Define thermal energy, conduction, Students will complete the end of the Chapter 12 Heat conductor, insulator, conductor, lesson review sections as each lesson is insulator, convection current, and completed WEEK OBJECTIVES radiation Observe which material is the best heat Classify materials as conductors or conductor insulators of electricity Observe and classify objects as conductors or insulators Chapter 13 Electricity and Magnetism WEEK OBJECTIVES Construct and diagram a complete electric circuit and observe the relationship between electricity and magnetism Define static electricity, electric currents, resistance, series circuit, parallel circuit, magnetism, magnetic field, electromagnetic Describe how static electricity can affect objects I can describe the difference between an insulator and a conductor I can describe how a magnet works, and uses of a magnet I can identify the parts of a circuit I can identify three ways electromagnets are used the lessons review questions Lab Zone; chapter directed inquiry assessing student ability to implement the lab and use the scientific method and chapter concepts The students will complete Chapter 13 assessment

6 Know how static electricity affects an The students will complete the object experiment with prediction of effects of Chapter 15 Objects in Motion 1 Know how neutral water is attracted to a electrostatic force on motion of objects charged atom WEEK 1 OBJECTIVES Predict the affects of an electromagnetic force on the motion of objects (attract or repel) Chapter 15 Objects in Motion 2 WEEK 2 OBJECTIVES Predict how the change in speed of an object is affected by the amount of force Chapter 15 Objects in Motion 3 WEEK 3 OBJECTIVES Identify, describe and classify how unbalanced and balanced forces acting on an object effect the motion of the object Define relative motion, frame of reference, speed, velocity, force, friction, gravity, work, kinetic energy, and potential energy Describe what happens when uneven forces act on an object Define what is motion Describe Newton s 1 st Law of Motion Identify, describe, and classify how forces acting on an object affect the motion of the object Exit slips for What Did I Learn Today Objects in motion vocabulary 3 column chart The students will complete the exit slips of What I Learned Today Three column chart for Chapter 15 Chapter 15 assessment Lab Zone Experiment A Curious Coin Chapter 15 assessment LAB Zone Experiment Super Stack Chapter 15 assessment

7 Describe what is necessary to move the objects chapter lesson review questions Chapter 15 Objects in Motion 4 Identify balanced and unbalanced forces Assessments Lab Zone experiments How Does Friction Affect Motion and What Is Friction WEEK 4 OBJECTIVES Recognize and explain friction as a force that slows down or stops moving objects and compare how the object moves over different surfaces Force and Motion Chapter 15 Objects in Motion 5 WEEK 5 OBJECTIVES Recognize and explain friction as a force that slows down or stops moving objects Compare how the object moves over different surfaces Determine the gravitational pull of the earth on an object using a spring scale Describe Newton s 2 nd Law of Motion Describe Newton s 3 rd Law of Motion Know how to calculate Moon to earth weights Describe kinetic energy Describe potential energy Exit slips for What I Know Today End of the lesson review questions The students will complete the LAB ZONE experiment Using a Spring Scale Proper use of a spring scale to determine the gravitational pull of the earth on an object End of Chapter 15 assessment

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