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Dee Chinault and Whitney Godfrey
th Grade Science Dee Chinault and Whitney Godfrey
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K Why Inquiry? "Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand.” Inquiry implies involvement that leads to understanding. Involvement in learning = possessing skills and attitudes that permit you to seek resolutions to questions and issues while you construct new knowledge.
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Inquiry-Based Lessons
K Inquiry-Based Lessons 5-E Lesson Plan Model Engage – Get the students interested and wondering Explore – Students lead a guided or independent investigation Explain – Students and teacher explains what was learned in the explore Elaborate – Additional activity (reading passage, video, animation, experiment, etc) to further understanding Evaluate – mini assessment
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Scientific Inquiry NOT on the essential standards – but SHOULD be!
K Scientific Inquiry NOT on the essential standards – but SHOULD be! Why? “We are all scientists” mentality Introduce/practice science process skills (observe, predict, etc.) Introduce/practice scientific method Using these skills with fidelity
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Scientific Inquiry 2 National Standards for grades 3-5
K Scientific Inquiry 2 National Standards for grades 3-5 “The SW have the abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry.” “The SW gain understandings about scientific inquiry.”
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Scientific Inquiry: Lesson
K Scientific Inquiry: Lesson Engage The students, working in small groups, will be given 4 different soap samples which they will make observations about. They will record their observations on the lab sheet. In order to become scientists, we have to know 2 important things: science process skills and the scientific method.
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Scientific Inquiry: Lesson
K Scientific Inquiry: Lesson Engage In order to do the scientific method well, you’ll need your process skills. The main parts of the scientific method are: 1. Question- Great scientists always start with a question they are wondering about. 2. Hypotheses- What do you think will happen? 3. Procedure-How are you going to answer your question and which steps will you take? 4. Observation- Carefully observe your experiment and record what you see. 5. Results- What happened? 6. Conclusion- Was your hypothesis correct? Did you answer your question? Do you need to modify your experiment?
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Scientific Inquiry: Lesson
K Scientific Inquiry: Lesson Explore The students will conduct observations and make predictions about which soap will sink and which will float. VERY guided at this beginning point in the year! Can assign jobs for groups Write hypothesis in “If…then….” statement. Begin experiment Your job as a teacher = facilitator!
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Scientific Inquiry Soap Observations
D Scientific Inquiry Soap Observations Question: Which soap will sink and which will float? Hypothesis: Discuss each soap sample and make a prediction Procedure: Test each piece of soap and record your observations below. Results/Conclusion: What were the qualities of the soap(s) that could float? How were these soaps different than the others? Was your hypothesis correct?
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Scientific Inquiry Lesson Soap Observations
K Scientific Inquiry Lesson Soap Observations Soap Visual Observations Texture/Hardness Sink/Float Sample 1 Sample 2 Sample 3 Sample 4 Challenge: Based on your results, how will each soap sample react to being heated in the microwave? Heat each sample 1 minute and see if your predictions were correct.
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Scientific Inquiry: Lesson
K Scientific Inquiry: Lesson Explain Gather all materials and complete the conclusion section on their own. When finished, come together for a class discussion. Sample discussion questions: Why do you think all scientists use the scientific method when they complete experiments? They like to use it for consistency; throughout the world there is an accepted way of doing science – this is it! Was your hypothesis correct? Why do you think they were so different from what you originally predicted? After completing this experiment, what do you think you could test that would be different? What else do you want to find out? Introduce final question: What will the different samples do when heated? The students will use their data and predictions.
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Scientific Inquiry: Lesson
K Scientific Inquiry: Lesson Elaborate The mixing process used in making Ivory Soap adds air into the bar, reducing its density and making it less dense than water. Ivory is full of air pockets and when heated, the air gets hot and the steam pushes out as the air expands. The heating takes the water molecules and rubs them together. Evaluate Self-evaluation
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Human Impact on the Environment
How are all the organisms in an ecosystem interconnected? 5.L.2.3 I will explain each relationship and its impact on the ecosystem. I will discuss the factors that impact populations within an ecosystem.
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The human impact lessons will come at the end of the Ecosystem unit
Read: A River Ran Wild (Lynne Cherry) Songs: Big Yellow Taxi (Counting Crows) Don’t Go Near The Water (Johnny Cash) This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie)
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Human Impact on the Environment
Recognize Connections Within Ecosystems Share Great Pacific Trash Build a Water Filter study-plastic-in-great-pacific-garbage-patch-increases- 100-fold?lite Ecology Town Freddy the Fish Environmental Trial
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D Forces and Motion Essential Standard 5.P.1: Understand forces and motion and the relationship between them Clarifying Objectives: 5.P.1.1 Explain how factors such as gravity, friction, and change in mass affects the motion of objects 5.P.1.2 Infer the motion of objects in terms of how far they travel in a certain amount of time and the direction in which they travel 5.P.1.4 Predict the effect of a given force or a change in mass on the motion of an object
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Forces Centripetal Force- Screaming Penny
Potential and Kinetic Energy- Shooters Friction, Balanced and Unbalanced Forces- Gliders
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