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Scientific Process/Method Rap

Scientific Method Song:

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=**Scientific Method Video**=

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Students will be assessed on their understanding of the scientific process and each steps meaning.

[|Moon Phases calendar]

__Keep a science notebook that will reflect: __

 * Observations and data
 * Interpret data that was collected
 * Determine whether or not the data supports hypothesis
 * Draw conclusions based on evidence and data collected.
 * Explain how scientists base their explanations on evidence
 * Investigate the use of tools
 * Compare results
 * Find reasons to explain any differences in the data

Space Vocabulary:
Rotation, Revolution, satellite, waxing, waning, gibbous, crescent, lunar, solar, orbit, revolve, constellation, spinning, planets, reflect, illuminate,

[|Moon Explore] =Constellations and Stars =
 * They do not move
 * The only star in our solar system is the sun

=Moon Phases Chart and Songs =

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Scientific Process Vocabulary: investigation observation science science notebook scientific method scientist inference observation variable control group bias flaw conclusion problem purpose hypothesis experiment procedures application results Metamorphosis media type="custom" key="27743125" media type="custom" key="27743129"

Scientific Process/Method Rap
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[|Matter]



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= = =VST 2 Study power point. - Students will be completing the worksheet portion of this power point as a study gui= =de.=

=Students have just finished Matter and Energy. Next week we will study Force and Motion and then take our VST.=

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Students watching this video, please understand that there are four states of matter, this video only recognizes the three states of matter that fourth graders study. We have discusse d plasma and what is plasma in our classroom.

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[|Study Jams - Matter]





=ROCK CYCLE=



==<span style="color: #256a1d; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 20px;">The following website is a great opportunity to learn about the rock cycle including a self test to practice. == <span style="color: #256a1d; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 20px;">[|Mineral Video]

<span style="color: #256a1d; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 16px;">[|Rock Cycle Interactive Website]

[|How Rocks Change]

[|What do you know about rocks?]

[|Collecting Rocks - Interactive]

[|How well do you know your rocks...play against the clock]

[|Do you know the process that changes rocks?]

[|Test your rock skills]
==<span style="color: #256a1d; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 20px;">The following website is a great opportunity to learn about the rock cycle including a self test to practice. ==

<span style="color: #256a1d; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 16px;">[|Rock Cycle Interactive Website]

[|How Rocks Change]

[|What do you know about rocks?]

[|Collecting Rocks - Interactive]

[|How well do you know your rocks...play against the clock]

[|Do you know the process that changes rocks?]

Rock Cycle Song to "Row Row Row Your Boat"
__ Rock Cycle Song __

SEDIMENTARY rock

Has been formed in layers Often found near water sources With fossils from decayers.

Then there's IGNEOUS rock Here since Earth was born Molten Lava, cooled and hardened That's how it is formed.

These two types of rocks

Can also be transformed With pressure, heat and chemicals

METAMORPHIC they'll become.


 * Weathering, Erosion, Deposition and the Rock Cycle **

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rock Cycle Song. Here is a video I created for my 6th grade science students to help them study.I hope you enjoy. Well rocks have a road that they travel on ===

===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Cycle of Pathways I wanna rid <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5;">e the ===

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rock Cycle Rap
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 * [|Science Buddies] **



=The YouTube video attached gives an explanation of how to create your project. Please understand I want you to use the example of the "Mini Backboard". This video shows examples has the topics in a different order. Please use the example in the "Mini Backboard" document.=

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=**Currently we are working with plant reproduction and plant parts**=

Scholastic's Study Jams is a great way to learn about plants. Please check out this website and the many plant videos and activities.
=[|Study Jams]=

<span style="color: #256a1d; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 120%;">What are we doing in Science?
<span style="color: #256a1d; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Our class is now working on Matter:** Students are learning that EVERYTHING that takes up space is Matter. Students sorted items from matter and non-matter. There are four states of Matter: Solid, Liquid, Gas and Plasma media type="custom" key="26865796"

media type="custom" key="26865832" Students watching this video, please understand that there are four states of matter, this video only recognizes the three states of matter that fourth graders study. We have discussed plasma and what is plasma in our classroom.

==<span style="color: #256a1d; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 120%;">The following website is a great opportunity to learn about the rock cycle including a self test to practice. == <span style="color: #256a1d; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Rock Cycle Interactive Website] [|How Rocks Change] [|What do you know about rocks?] [|Collecting Rocks - Interactive] [|How well do you know your rocks...play against the clock] [|Do you know the process that changes rocks?]

Rock Cycle Song to "Row Row Row Your Boat"
__ Rock Cycle Song __

SEDIMENTARY rock Has been formed in layers Often found near water sources With fossils from decayers.

Then there's IGNEOUS rock Here since Earth was born Molten Lava, cooled and hardened That's how it is formed.

These two types of rocks Can also be transformed With pressure, heat and chemicals METAMORPHIC they'll become.

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 * Weathering, Erosion, Deposition and the Rock Cycle **

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Words to the Rock Cycle Song: __

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rock Cycle Song. Here is a video I created for my 6th grade science students to help them study.I hope you enjoy. Well rocks have a road that they travel on <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">There's one day here and the next day gone <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sometimes they bend, sometimes they melt <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sometimes they break from water and wind

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">There's a world inside the Earth's surface <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Where rock changes to Igneous <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">For these rocks, intrusive magma forms <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">And lava makes extrusive ores

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">If cooling hesitates <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Large Crystals form in place <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Cools quickly, Glassy, that's the way

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Cycle of Pathways I wanna ride the <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rock Cycle <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Heat, Pressure, and Melting, and Erosion <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rock Cycle

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Erosion breaks rock from the ground <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">In deposition they settle down <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Presses now, Compaction then <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Cementation glues Minerals in <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From Living things, Pebbles, and Sand <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sedimentary Rocks are really grand

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Plates push Rock down and back up again <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Heat and Pressure makes Metamorphic <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">There's no Rock it can't mold <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Changing types this I know <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Foliated the lines are in <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Looks like they were flattened

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Cycle of Pathways I wanna ride the <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rock Cycle <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Heat, Pressure, and Melting, and Erosion <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rock Cycle

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Yeah

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Cycle of Pathways, I wanna ride the <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rock Cycle <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Heat, Pressure, and Melting, and Erosion <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rock Cycle

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">They are made up of different minerals (different minerals) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Natural Crystal structures <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Solid but they are not alive

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ooooooo...Yeah!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Metamorphic Rocks will bend and fold <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Igneous comes from hot not cold <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sedimentary layers in <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rocks are the survivors

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Cycle of Pathways I wanna ride the <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rock Cycle <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Heat, Pressure, and Melting, and Erosion <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rock Cycle

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Cycle of Pathways I wanna ride the <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rock Cycle <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Heat, Pressure, and Melting, and Erosion <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rock Cycle

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Cycle of Pathways I wanna ride the <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rock Cycle <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Heat, Pressure, and Melting, and Erosion <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rock Cycle

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Rock Cycle Rap
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= = <span style="font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 140%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[|Moon Explore] =<span style="font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 140%;">Constellations and Stars =
 * <span style="font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; line-height: 27.2999992370605px;">They do not move
 * <span style="font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; line-height: 27.2999992370605px;">The only star in our solar system is the sun

=<span style="font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 140%;">Moon Phases Chart and Songs =

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[|Space - A planetarium on your computer!] [|Scientific Inquiry] =__**Links:**__= __**[|Brain Pop]**__ //**User Name: Timbercrest6781**// //**Password: tigers**//

__**[|Science Experiment - The Happy Scientist]**__ __**[|Steve Spangler Science Web site]**__ __**[|The Happy Scientist]**__ __**[|Bill Nye the Science Guy]**__ __**[|NASA Kids]**__ __**[|NASA Students Grades 5-8]**__ __**[|Study Jams]**__

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media type="custom" key="26865832" Students watching this video, please understand that there are four states of matter, this video only recognizes the three states of matter that fourth graders study. We have discussed plasma and what is plasma in our classroom.

===Students are experiencing the scientific process through class science experiments. We will have a Science Fair Project at the end of the school year. This is a mandatory activity worth 1 summative grade.===

<span style="color: #256a1d; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 16px;">We currently have completed two science experiments, "Which color is dominant in a bag of Skittles". This week students will continue to work in their Interactive Science Notebook, practice and understand the steps of the scientific process and create a mini science board reflecting their "Skittle". Students will be encouraged to create their own science experiments next week.

= Students will continue to study the SCIENTIFIC PROCESS throughout the year; however, our fourth graders are now moving onto Moon phases and space: =
 * __The target skills we want children to learn:__**


 * Explain that models can be three-dimensional, two-dimensional, a mental model or a computer model
 * Using a model students will demonstrate the difference between Earth's rotation of the Earth's revolution.
 * Explain that Earth rotates once on its axis in approximately a 24-hour period (day and night)
 * Explain Earth revolves (orbits) around the sun once in a year (approximately 365 days).
 * Students will demonstrate that the star patterns (constellations) in the sky stay the same although the star patterns appear to shift across the sky nightly.
 * Students will demonstrate how different stars are high in the night sky in some seasons but dip below the horizon in other seasons using models/simulations.
 * Explain that the earth moves, but stars do not.
 * Students will recognize that the moon is not a star and it does not produce light, it reflects the light from the sun.
 * Predict, record and describe the changes in the moon phases.
 * Research and report the effects of space research and exploration on the economy and culture of Florida.
 * Explain how technology and tools help with the ability to observe very small and very large things.





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<span style="color: #601111; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">Rotation,

<span style="color: #601111; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">Revolution,

<span style="color: #601111; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">satellite,

<span style="color: #601111; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">waxing, waning,

<span style="color: #601111; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">gibbous,

<span style="color: #601111; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">crescent,

<span style="color: #601111; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">lunar,

<span style="color: #601111; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">solar,

<span style="color: #601111; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">orbit,

<span style="color: #601111; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">revolve,

<span style="color: #601111; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">constellation,

<span style="color: #601111; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">spinning,

<span style="color: #601111; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">planets,

<span style="color: #601111; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">reflect,

<span style="color: #601111; font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">illuminate,

<span style="font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 18px;">[|Moon Explore]

=<span style="font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 25px;">Constellations and Stars =


 * <span style="font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">They do not move
 * <span style="font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive;">The only star in our solar system is the sun

=<span style="font-family: &#39;Comic Sans MS&#39;,cursive; font-size: 25px;">Moon Phases Chart and Songs =

[|Moon Phases Chart]

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