This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one …
This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials - 2 clear plastic cups for each pair of students - 4 bean seeds for each pair - soil - unifix cubes - a plant or math journal to record data ...
The 2018 Science Standards of Learning Curriculum Framework provides a foundation of …
The 2018 Science Standards of Learning Curriculum Framework provides a foundation of content knowledge and science and engineering practices that teachers or divisions should use when developing their own curriculum.
This instructional plan combined Science SOL 3.2d and WIDA English Language Development Standards. The …
This instructional plan combined Science SOL 3.2d and WIDA English Language Development Standards. The lesson includes several activity options. Note: Some images may not appear in the "Overview". To view all images in this instructional plan, click "download" at the bottom of the overview.
This instructional plan combined Science SOLs 3.4b and WIDA English Language Development Standards. The …
This instructional plan combined Science SOLs 3.4b and WIDA English Language Development Standards. The lesson includes several activity options. Note: Some images may not appear in the "Overview". To view all images in this instructional plan, click "download" at the bottom of the overview.
This sample instructional plan incorporates WIDA Key Language Uses to support English …
This sample instructional plan incorporates WIDA Key Language Uses to support English language development in conjunction with Science content instruction.*Note: Some images may not appear in "View Resource." To see all images in this instructional plan, click "download" at the bottom of the overview.
This unit on thermal energy transfer begins with students testing whether a …
This unit on thermal energy transfer begins with students testing whether a new plastic cup sold by a store keeps a drink colder for longer compared to the regular plastic cup that comes free with the drink. Students find that the drink in the regular cup warms up more than the drink in the special cup. This prompts students to identify features of the cups that are different, such as the lid, walls, and hole for the straw, that might explain why one drink warms up more than the other.
Students investigate the different cup features they conjecture are important to explaining the phenomenon, starting with the lid. They model how matter can enter or exit the cup via evaporation However, they find that in a completely closed system, the liquid inside the cup still changes temperature. This motivates the need to trace the transfer of energy into the drink as it warms up. Through a series of lab investigations and simulations, students find that there are two ways to transfer energy into the drink: (1) the absorption of light and (2) thermal energy from the warmer air around the drink. They are then challenged to design their own drink container that can perform as well as the store-bought container, following a set of design criteria and constraints.
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This unit on weather, climate, and water cycling is broken into four …
This unit on weather, climate, and water cycling is broken into four separate lesson sets. In the first two lesson sets, students explain small-scale storms. In the third and fourth lesson sets, students explain mesoscale weather systems and climate-level patterns of precipitation. Each of these two parts of the unit is grounded in a different anchoring phenomenon.
The unit starts out with anchoring students in the exploration of a series of videos of hailstorms from different locations across the country at different times of the year. The videos show that pieces of ice of different sizes (some very large) are falling out of the sky, sometimes accompanied by rain and wind gusts, all on days when the temperature of the air outside remained above freezing for the entire day. These cases spark questions and ideas for investigations, such as investigating how ice can be falling from the sky on a warm day, how clouds form, why some clouds produce storms with large amounts of precipitation and others don?t, and how all that water gets into the air in the first place.
The second half of the unit is anchored in the exploration of a weather report of a winter storm that affected large portions of the midwestern United States. The maps, transcripts, and video that students analyze show them that the storm was forecasted to produce large amounts of snow and ice accumulation in large portions of the northeastern part of the country within the next day. This case sparks questions and ideas for investigations around trying to figure out what could be causing such a large-scale storm and why it would end up affecting a different part of the country a day later.
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Middle Grades Science astronomy. Astronomy. Geology III Weathering Erosion and Human Impact …
Middle Grades Science astronomy. Astronomy. Geology III Weathering Erosion and Human Impact Introduction Key Terms Weathering and Natural Erosion Rocks to Soil Erosion from Water Erosion from Gravity and Wind Human Activity and Erosion
Middle Grades Science weathering. Geology III - Weathering Erosion and Human Impact. …
Middle Grades Science weathering. Geology III - Weathering Erosion and Human Impact. Geology III Weathering Erosion and Human Impact Introduction Key Terms Weathering and Natural Erosion Rocks to Soil Erosion from Water Erosion from Gravity and Wind Human Activity and Erosion
Middle Grades Science rocksfossils. Geology II - Rocks and Fossils. Geology II …
Middle Grades Science rocksfossils. Geology II - Rocks and Fossils. Geology II Rocks and Fossils Introduction Key Terms Composition Classification and Formation of Rocks Assignments Fossil Evidence Review Module Assessment
Middle Grades Science insideearth. Geology I - Inside the Earth and Plate …
Middle Grades Science insideearth. Geology I - Inside the Earth and Plate Tectonics. Geology I Inside the Earth and Plate Tectonics Key Terms Inside the Earth Plate Tectonics Earthquakes I EarthQuakes II Volcano Formation and Types Volcano Eruptions Review Assignments
Middle Grades Science hydrologymeteorology. Hydrology and Meteorology. Geology III Weathering Erosion and …
Middle Grades Science hydrologymeteorology. Hydrology and Meteorology. Geology III Weathering Erosion and Human Impact Introduction Key Terms Weathering and Natural Erosion Rocks to Soil Erosion from Water Erosion from Gravity and Wind Human Activity and Erosion
This unit on metabolic reactions in the human body starts out with …
This unit on metabolic reactions in the human body starts out with students exploring a real case study of a middle-school girl named M?Kenna, who reported some alarming symptoms to her doctor. Her symptoms included an inability to concentrate, headaches, stomach issues when she eats, and a lack of energy for everyday activities and sports that she used to play regularly. She also reported noticeable weight loss over the past few months, in spite of consuming what appeared to be a healthy diet. Her case sparks questions and ideas for investigations around trying to figure out which pathways and processes in M?Kenna?s body might be functioning differently than a healthy system and why.
Students investigate data specific to M?Kenna?s case in the form of doctor?s notes, endoscopy images and reports, growth charts, and micrographs. They also draw from their results from laboratory experiments on the chemical changes involving the processing of food and from digital interactives to explore how food is transported, transformed, stored, and used across different body systems in all people. Through this work of figuring out what is causing M?Kenna?s symptoms, the class discovers what happens to the food we eat after it enters our bodies and how M?Kenna?s different symptoms are connected.
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This unit on matter cycling and photosynthesis begins with students reflecting on …
This unit on matter cycling and photosynthesis begins with students reflecting on what they ate for breakfast. Students are prompted to consider where their food comes from and consider which breakfast items might be from plants. Then students taste a common breakfast food, maple syrup, and see that according to the label, it is 100% from a tree.
Based on the preceding unit, students argue that they know what happens to the sugar in syrup when they consume it. It is absorbed into the circulatory system and transported to cells in their body to be used for fuel. Students explore what else is in food and discover that food from plants, like bananas, peanut butter, beans, avocado, and almonds, not only have sugars but proteins and fats as well. This discovery leads them to wonder how plants are getting these food molecules and where a plant?s food comes from.
Students figure out that they can trace all food back to plants, including processed and synthetic food. They obtain and communicate information to explain how matter gets from living things that have died back into the system through processes done by decomposers. Students finally explain that the pieces of their food are constantly recycled between living and nonliving parts of a system.
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Middle Grades Science cells. Cell Structure Function and Organization. Cell Structure Function …
Middle Grades Science cells. Cell Structure Function and Organization. Cell Structure Function and Organization Key Terms Cell Structure and Function Animal and Plant Cell Organelles Homeostasis Hierarchy of Life What Cells Need Circulatory and Digestive Systems
Middle Grades Science energyclassification. Energy and Classification. Energy and Classification Key Terms …
Middle Grades Science energyclassification. Energy and Classification. Energy and Classification Key Terms Assignments Review Energy Flow Module Assessment Nutrient Cycling Photosynthesis Cellular Respiration Classification Taxonomy
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