Science
“In Bugg's Backyard”
Science Second Quarter Objectives
Kindergarten
Competency Goal 2: The learner will make observations and build an understanding of weather concepts.
• Observe and report daily weather changes throughout the year.
• Identify different weather features including: weather, precipitation, temperature and cloud cover.
• Identify types of precipitation, changes in wind, force, direction and sky conditions.
• Observe and determine the effects of weather on human activities.
• Use common tools to measure weather.
First Grade
Competency Goal 3: The learner will make observations and conduct investigations to build and understanding of the properties and relationships of objects.
• Describe the differences in the properties of solids and liquids.
• Investigate several ways in which objects can be described, sorted or classified.
• Classify solids according to their properties: color, texture, shape (ability to roll or stack), ability to float or sink in water.
• Determine the properties of liquids: color, ability to float or sink in water, tendency to flow.
• Observe mixtures including: solids with solids, liquids with liquids, solids with liquids
Second Grade
Competency Goal 4: The learner will conduct investigations and use appropriate tools to build an understanding of the changes in weather.
2.01 Investigate and describe how moving air interacts with objects.
2.02 Observe the force of air pressure pushing on objects.
2.03 Describe weather using quantitative measures: temperature, wind direction and speed and precipitation.
2.04 Identify and use common tools to measure weather: wind vane, anemometer, thermometer, rain gauge.
2.05Dicsuss and determine how energy from the sun warms the land, air and water..
2.06Observe and record weather changes over time and relate to the time of day and time of year.
Third Grade
Competency Goal 3: The learner will make observations and use appropriate technology to build an understanding of the earth/moon/sun system.
• Observe that light travels in a straight line until it strikes and object and is reflected and/or absorbed.
• Observe that objects in the sky have patterns of movement including: sun, moon, stars
• Using shadows, follow and record the apparent movement of the sun in the sky during the day.
• Use appropriate tools to make observations of the moon.
• Observe and record the change in the apparent shape of the moon from day to day over several months and describe the pattern of changes.
• Observe that patterns of stars in the sky stay the same, although they appear to move across the sky nightly.
Fourth Grade
Competency Goal 2: The learner will make observations conduct investigations to build an understanding of magnetism and electricity.
3.01 Observe and investigate the pull of magnets on all materials made of iron and the pushes or pulls on other magnets.
3.02Describe and demonstrate how magnetism can be used to generate electricity.
3.03 Design and test an electric circuit as a closed pathway including an energy source, energy conductor and an energy receiver.
3.04 Explain how magnetism is related to electricity.
3.05 Describe and explain the parts of a light bulb.
3.06 Describe and identify materials that are conductors and non conductors of electricity.
3.07 Observe and investigate that parallel and series circuits have different characteristics.
3.08 Observe and investigate the ability of electric circuits to produce light, heat, sound and magnetic effects.
3.09 Recognize lightning as an electrical discharge and show proper safety behavior when lightning occurs.
Fifth Grade
Competency Goal 3: The learner will make observations and conduct investigations to build an understanding of landforms .
2.01 Identity and analyze forces that cause change in landforms over time including water and ice, wind and gravity.
2.02 Investigate and discuss the role of the water cycle and how movement of water over land through the landscape helps shape land forms.
2.03 Discuss and consider the wearing away and movement of rock and soil in erosions and its importance in forming: canyons, valleys, meanders and tributaries.
2.04 Describe the deposition of eroded material and its importance in establishing landforms including: deltas and flood plains
2.05 Discuss how the flow of water and the slope of the land affect erosion.
2.06 Identify and use models, amps and aerial photographs as ways of representing landforms.
2.07 Discuss and analyze how humans influence erosion and deposition in local communities: including school grounds, as a result of clearing land, planting vegetation, and building dams.
Mrs. Hall Science Teacher