Core Rigor

This is a difficult concept for students who have just completed second grade and entered third grade. This packet drills down to the essential concepts of heredity without the complications of genetic mechanisms or human examples as written into the standard itself. Explanations of parent/offspring, inherited/acquired traits and effects of the environment on organisms are explored. Three classroom activities are included: 1. Analyzing traits to match parent to offspring, 2.Classifying inherited

This unit consists of 5 lessons, 5 simple labs with everday materials, and 5 science notebook activities to go with each lesson. The lesson, lab, and notebook activity can be done all in one day or separated into 15 days depending on how much time you have for science. All of the standards for New Generation Grade 5 Matter and Its Interactions are covered (5-PS1-1 through 5-PS1-4) in the 5 sections.

5-LS1 From Molecules to Organisms; Structures and Processes is the most compact of the grade 5 NGSS standards, for it essentially serves as a preview of the more complex 5-LS2, Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy and Dynamics. It is based on photosynthesis and how light energy, carbon dioxide and water provide the basic building blocks for all life. Students are challenged to support arguments of how plant matter is generated from air and water (not soil) through models and/or data. Two activities

This comprehensive unit thoroughly explores weathering, erosion and deposition by water, ice, wind, living organisms, gravity, temperature and human activity. Phenomena such as sink holes, caverns, etc. that occur as as result of erosion and deposition are presented. Students are then guided through the Theory of Plate Tectonics and the evidence left on the Earth's Crust with the use of both pictures and map models. The unit culminates with an exploration of topographic maps. Three labs are incl

This is a comprehensive unit that begins with phenomena that has shaped the Earth's lithosphere since it was formed as well as how to use the knowledge we have found from history to predict for earthly life in the future. It begins with the theory of Pangea, the super continent and how tectonic plate drift occurred to form the seven major continents. The effects of tectonic plate movement such as volcanoes and earthquakes are then explored. Natural earth processes such as erosion, glacial erosio

This package is everything you need to teach and provide "hands-on" activities for the 5th grade Next Generation Science Standard 5-LS2A&B. There are 40 pages of presentation and 6 pages providing labs creating food chains and then converting to food webs as well as a lab on energy transfer. Included are adaptations,learned behavior, biotic and abiotic factors, autotrophs, heterotrophs, consumers, scavengers,decomposers, interactions between living things, energy transfer and the cycles invol

This product thoroughly covers this NGSS module for grade 3. It introduces, compares and contrasts various life cycles. Once life cycles are explored, complete focus is placed on the life cycle of flowering plants and their reproductive processes. The unit includes 21 pages of material and 3 developmentally appropriate lab activities. For specifics see preview,

The unit begins with identifying the needs of animals and progresses into how they provide those needs for themselves. Coping with environmental changes through adaptation is explored. Animal group behavior is a focus both in presentation, discussion and through lab activity. See preview for specifics.