Daily+Lessons+for+Science

Science Planning Guides/Pacing Calendars Science Scope & Sequence with Standards (The standards are detailed on the first few pages.)

__September __ Day 1: Introduction to science materials: **journal**, **textbook** and library. Day 2: How do scientists learn about things? **Observe** –Use your senses to learn about things in the classroom. Day 3: **Community walk**- students make observations about the surrounding environment. Document natural & man-made elements. Day 4: What is Earth made of? Day 5: Classify and describe Earth materials from our community. Day 6: Non-living things can be naturally occurring or man-made. **Assessment** 
 * * **//Students will write in their Science Journals at the end of every class. //
 * Unit 1 – Earth Materials **(Sept to Nov)

__October __ Day 1: ** Rocks **– What are rocks? The rock cycle. Observe and describe different rocks. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 2: How do humans and animals use rocks? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 3: **Compare** and **classify** different rocks. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 4: **Sand** –What is sand? Observe and **describe** sand. Sand around the world <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 5: How do humans and animals use sands? What can you do with sand? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 6: **<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Assessment **<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> / Compare and classify different sands

__<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">November __ <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 1: **<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> Soil **<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">–What is soil? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 2: What are the components of soil? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 3: Observe and describe soils. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 4: Compare and classify different soils. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 5: Soils around the world <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 6: Soil –Plants need soil. Are some soils better for growing plants? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 7: **Erosion** and **deposition** - What do they look like in the real world? What problems do they cause? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 8: **Assessment**

__<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">December __ <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 1: Motion- What Are Ways Things Move? Investigate the ways a ball can move. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 2: Forces- Classify moves as pushes and pulls. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 3: How do you change movement? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 4: Different kinds of motion (straight, circular, back and forth, up and down) <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 5: Design a vehicle that moves when pushed or pulled. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 6: What makes things move at different speeds? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 7: Test different ways of increasing or decreasing the speed of your vehicle. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 8: **Assessment**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Unit 2 – Forces and Motion **<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">(Dec to Feb)

__<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">January __ <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 1: What is gravity? How does gravity affect objects though air, liquids and solids? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 2: What are balance and the center of gravity?What is counter-weighting? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 3: What is a balance scale? What is it used for? How does it work? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 4: What is a mobile? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 5: What is rotational motion? – What is a central axis? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 6: What are the different ways to initiate rotational motion? Tops and zoomers <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 7: How can air resistance act as a force that initiates rotational motion? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 8: How do variations in design influence rotational motion? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 9: **Assessment**

__<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">February __ <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 1: Inclined plane – What is a slope? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 2:What are wheels and axles? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 3: Wheels and axles cont… Wheel-and-axle systems with wheels of different sizes roll toward the smaller wheel <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 14px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 4: What is a sphere? How do they roll? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 5: How does Earth spins and rotate? <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 6: Magnets exert push and pull. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 7: The Earth spins on an axis and rotates around the Sun. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 8: **Assessment**

__<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">March __ <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 1: Describe the characteristics of and variations between living and nonliving things. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 2: Plants require air, water, nutrients, and light in order to live and thrive. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 3: Describe the life processes common to all living things. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 4: Living things grow, take in nutrients, breathe (exchange gases), reproduce, eliminate waste, and die. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 5: Recognize that traits of living things are both inherited and acquired or learned. Some traits of living things have been inherited (e.g., color of flowers and number of limbs of animals). <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 6: Recognize that for humans and other living things there is genetic continuity between generations. Plants and animals closely resemble their parents and other individuals in their species. Plants and animals can transfer specific traits to their offspring when they reproduce. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 7: Describe how the structures of plants and animals complement the environment of the plant or animal. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 8: **Assessment**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Unit 3 – Plant Diversity **<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">(March to June)

__<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">April __ <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 1: Plants and animals have life cycles. These may include beginning of a life, development into an adult, reproduction as an adult and eventually death. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 2: Describe the major stages in the life cycles of selected plants and animals. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 3: Life cycle of a butterfly <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 4: Life cycle of a frog <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 5: Life cycle of a bean plant <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 6: Life cycle of a conifer <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 7 Life cycle of flowering plant <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 8: **Assessment**

__<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">May __ <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 1: Plants are alive. Seeds are alive and grow into new plants. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 2: As plants grow, they develop roots, stems, leaves, buds, flowers, and seeds. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 3: Root study <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 4: Stem Study <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 5: Leaf study <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 6: Bud and flower study <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 7: Seed study <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 8: **Assessment**

__<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">June __ <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 1: Bees and other insects help some plants by moving pollen from flower to flower. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 2: Each kind of plant goes through its own stages of growth and development that may include seed, young plant, and mature plant. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 3: The length of time from the beginning of development to death of the plant is called its life span. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 4: Life cycles of some plants include changes from seed to mature plant. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 5: All living things grow, take in nutrients, breathe (exchange gases), reproduce, and eliminate waste. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 6: Describe some survival behaviors of common living specimens. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 7: Plants respond to changes in their environment. For example, the leaves of some green plants change position as the direction of light changes; the parts of some plants undergo seasonal changes that enable the plant to grow; seeds germinate and leaves form and grow. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Day 8: **Assessment** <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Unit 1 – Earth Materials * **//<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Students will write in their Science Journals at the end of every class. //