Hi Parents,
I've created classroom project requests through DonorsChoose, the nonprofit classroom funding site for public school teachers.
Donations of any size will help. Your donation will brighten our school year.
Here are the projects I have submitted:
The Mysteries of the Microscopic World
The Mysteries of the Microscopic World-Part 2
Exploring Electromagnetism with Maglev Trains
Thank you so much for considering a donation for our Science Lab classrooms!
Barbara
https://www.donorschoose.org/we-teach/6958562
Current topics under investigation:
- *Grade K - Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: Animals, Plants, and Their Environment
- alive/not alive
- animal parts and functions
- where animals live
Parent Resource Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8EMn_21T4o
https://vimeo.com/groups/81985/videos/34427045
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=a_B-msUo0ig (seasons)
- Grade K -Forces & Interactions: Pushes and Pulls/Weather & Climate
- forces that make objects move
- kinds of weather/seasons
- Vocabulary: sunny, rainy, stormy, cloudy, partly cloudy, windy, spring, summer, fall, winter
- Vocabulary: over, under, beside, around, through, between, behind, on, next to, in front of, pushes, pulls, force, ramp, gravity
Parent Resource Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URSmaBRnTPs (positions)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=a_B-msUo0ig (seasons)
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- *Grade 1 - Structure, Function, and Information Processing
- some animal babies look like their parents
- some animal babies do not look line their parents
- animal parents help their babies survive
Parent Resource Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJg4YFtvOp8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5dAsgKvTkg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuH0gIvFmlQ
- Grade 1 - Waves: Light & Sound
- The Ultimate Playground design
- Working together in science lab
- Sciencntific drawings and descriptions
- Vocabulary: light, dark, block, transparent, translucent, opaque, design, constraints, research, revise
Parent Resource Video: https://easyscienceforkids.com/light-and-dark-video-for-kids/
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- *Grade 2 - Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
- many differet types of seeds can be sorted in different ways
- the number of seeds in a fruit, vegetable, or plant can be counted and graphed
- plants need certain things to grow
- different living things live in different habitats
Parent Resource Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkFPyue5X3Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro8Z9qIlWjM
- Grade 2 - Structure and Properties of Matter
- How can I classify materials?-sorting by properties/liquids
- Working Together in science lab
- Scienctific drawings and descriptions
- Making claims and supporting them with evidence
- Vocabulary: property, hardness, flexible, rigid, texture, color, shape, transparent, translucent, opaque, viscous
Parent Resource Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHvJ5v0zhoQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYzjg5nRMOg
https://illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/evscps.sci.phys.matter/whats-the-matter/#.Xc2y65hKjcc
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- *Grade 3 - Weather and Climate
- describe climates in different areas
- graph average precipitation and temperatures of different areas to make claims about the climate there
- compare climates of different areas
- determine the effects of different climates on the organisms that live there
Parent Resource Video: https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/00000144-0a2c-d3cb-a96c-7b2d3e210000
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/weather-climate/
- *Grade 3 - Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
- Survival in the Taiga ecosystem compared to the Chicago River ecosystem
- River/stream system components and how they affect the organisms that live there
- Graphing information
- Interpreting information from graphs
- Working Together in science lab
- Scientific drawings and descriptions
- Making claims and supporting them with evidence
- Developing science models
- Vocabulary: crustacean, scavenger, nocturnal, gills, exoskeleton, antennae, rostrum, chelipad, compound eyes, fanned tail, swimmerets, taiga, weather, climate, precipitation, survival, predator, prey, advantage
Parent Resource Videos: https://www.teachertube.com/videos/I-am-a-crayfish-94082
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLQBJugaoog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu2dJA2iR4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po7b2XLwIr8
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- *Grade 4 - Structure, Function, and Information Processing
- light reflecting from objects allows objects to be seen
- organisms have internal and external structures that help them survive
- animals receive information through their senses and respond to the information
Parent Resource Video: https://illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/lsps07.sci.phys.energy.lighttravel/how-light-travels/#.Xk6ytZhKjcc
https://illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/idptv11.sci.life.stru.living.d4keye/eyes/
https://illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/idptv11.sci.life.sru.d4khea/hearing/
https://illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/idptv11.sci.life.reg.d4ksme/smell/
https://illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/idptv11.sci.life.reg.d4ktou/touch/
- Grade 4 - Energy
- A sound transmitter design
- Working Together in science lab
- Scientific drawings and descriptions
- Making claims and supporting them with evidence; using reasoning to support evidence
- Developing science models
- light travels in a straight line
- Vocabulary: energy, sound wave, vibration, sound source, medium, sound receiver, particles, pitch, volume, design, constraints, research, revise
Parent Resource Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkNJvZINSEY
https://www.dkfindout.com/us/science/sound/
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- *Grade 5 - Earth's Systems
- the geosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere interact
- each of the spheres influences other spheres
- water is located in different places on Earth
- water is an important resource
Parent Resource video: https://illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nves.sci.earth.atmosphere/plants-affect-the-atmosphere/
https://illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/water-water-everywhere/ready-jet-go/
https://illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/habitat-earth/in-the-classroom/
- *Grade 5 - Structure and Properties of Matter and Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems
- Making detailed soil observations
- Making models of energy transfer in ecosystems
- Ocean light zones
- Working Together in science lab
- Scientific drawings and descriptions
- Making claims and supporting them with evidence; using reasoning to support evidence
- Developing science models
- Vocabulary: eyepiece lens, body tube, arm, objective lens, coarse focus, fine focus, stage clips, stage, mirror (light source), base, slide, cover slip, ecosystem, biotic and abiotic factors, minerals, nutrients, survival, carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, sand, peat, clay, silt
Parent Resource Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ybBjbZnq9I
https://www.dkfindout.com/us/animals-and-nature/habitats-and-ecosystems/