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 5th Grade Science Units:

1. Physical Science:   Structure and Properties of Matter
2. Life Science :  Matter & Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems
3. Earth & Space  Science:     Earth's Systems
4. Earth & Space Science:  Space Systems: Stars and the Solar System

 

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STUDENT RESEARCH

1. Brainpop.com
2. Study Jams  - Scholastic
3. Journey North  Online Projects
4. Science News for Kids  - Online newspaper 
5. Smithsonian Institute
6. National Geographic KIDS
7. Palisades Interstate Park  - Stateline Lookout

 

1. Structure and Properties of Matter

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1. Chem4Kids
2. PHET Online Simulations
3. Concord Online Simulations - need Java installed

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VOCABULARY

• chemical change: the change of a material into an entirely different material with properties that are different from the original material.
• chemical reaction : the process by which a chemical change occurs.
• conservation of matter: matter can never be destroyed.  During any change, matter is conserved.
• condensation : the change from a gas to a liquid.
• electrical conductivity: how well a substance allows electric current to pass through it.
• evaporation : the change of state from a liquid into a gas.
• magnetism : a force produced by magnets that pulls some metals.
• matter: anything that takes up space and has weight.  All matter is made of moving particles.
• mixture : a combination of materials; the materials do not change into something else after they are mixed.
• particles: all matter is made up of smaller pieces of matter.
• physical changes : changes in a state from a solid to a liquid and back again.
• solubility : the ability of one substance to dissolve another; a physical change in matter.
• state change: a change of a substance from one state of matter to another.  Some common state changes include: melting, and freezing.
• states of matter: solid, liquid, gas.
• substances: a material where each part of it is made of the same type of particle.  No two particle types have exactly the same properties.
• temperature: degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object.
• thermal conductivity: a property that describes how well a substance allows heat to pass through it.
• time: an elapse of an event.

2. Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems

1. Coastal erosion
2. Mountain effects on climate  - video
3. Study Jams
4.  Flocabulary

 

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VOCABULARY

• atmosphere: the Earth system that is made up of a mixture of gases that is air
• biosphere: the Earth system that includes all the living things found on Earth
• climate: the general weather of a place over a long period of time, such as many years
• fresh water: water that is not salty (contains less than 500 parts per million (ppm) of dissolved salts)
• gas: matter that spreads to fill a space
• geosphere: the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle
• glacier: a very large area of ice that moves slowly down a slope, valley or wide area of land
• greenhouse effect: the trapping of some solar radiation by a planet's atmosphere, increasing the temperature on and near the surface
• hydrosphere: all the water at or near the Earth’s surface, including liquid bodies of water, frozen water as ice and snow, water found underground and water found in the atmosphere.
• reservoir: a large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply
• salt water: water containing salt. 96.5% of all the Earth’s water is contained within the oceans as salt water, while the remaining 3.5% is freshwater lakes and frozen water locked up in glaciers and the polar ice caps
• system: an organized structure for arranging or classifying
• volume: the amount of space that a substance or object occupies

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TEACHER RESOURCES

1. NSTA  Next Generation Sci Standards: topics  *   Learning Center  *   Classroom Resources 
2. Discovery videos and lesson ideas   *  Oceans
3.  Open Ed -   Background and lesson
4. The Science Spot lessons
5. Learning in Action
6. NJ Center for Teaching & Learning
7. Brainpop

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES

1. NOAA What a Cycle  * National Weather Service
2. Shower Curtain Watershed *  Directions
3. Engineer a Dam  - tryengineering
4. Building a System - hydroponics
5. Pollution Patrol
6. Graphing Reservoirs of Water
7. Discovery Education Interactive Activity- Identifies different effects forces have on earth
8. Golbal Water Conservation  *  Global Water Distribution
9. Simulating an Oil Spill * Video
10. Does Pollution afftect Plants?
11.  Oil Spill Solutions   * Try Engineering
12. Earth Systems Interctions NASA
13. EarthSciWeek - lessons
14. Inorganic and Organic Pollution Issues

 

 

 

4.  Space Systems: Stars and the Solar System 


                       

1. PHET Online Simulations  *  Gravity and Orbits 
2. Concord Online Simulations  - need Java
3. Star Animation
4. Star Map   which shows magnitude and distance
5. Shadow Generator - sun & moon
6. Galileo's Experiments​

Constellations

1. Constellation Guide  - Star Date
2. The Constellations
3. Constellations of the Night Sky
4. Solar System Quick
5. Astronomy Simulations   Zodiac Simulator
    

Seasons

1. Seasons and the Sun - video
2. Astronomy Simulations  & lunar phases - Univ. Of Nebraska

Day & Night

1.  

Moon

TRACK THE PHASES OF THE MOON

1. Moon Phases Animation  - mheducation
2. 8 Phases animation
3. Giant Moon  Phases
4. Moon Calendar  - birthday

RESEARCH

1. Phases of the moon and % of the moon illuminated - US Navy
2. Phases of the Moon video - Freeschool
3. Moon Phases  - EarthSky
4. Moon  - Nine Planets
5. Moon  - Enchanted Learning
6. Moon facts  - Scholastic

VIDEO

1. Moon Phases Song  - Cee Lo Green
2. Phases of the Moon  - cartoon video - The Moon
3. Moon Landing  video - 1969
4. Rising moon video  - time lapse photos

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VOCABULARY

• absolute brightness : an object’s absolute brightness is how bright the object actually is, not its apparent brightness, which can be impacted by distance from the object.
• apparent brightness : an object’s apparent brightness is how bright it appears in the sky, not its actual or absolute brightness, which can be impacted by distance from the object.
• apparent motion: motion that seems to happen.
• axis: an imaginary line about which a body rotates
• constellation: a pattern of stars, which are man made.
• gravity: a force that pulls one object towards another object of greater mass.
• line plot: a line plot is a graph that shows frequency of data along a number line .
• line graph: a useful for displaying data or information that changes continuously over time.
• moon phases: how the moon appears from Earth.  

New Moon
Waxing Crescent Moon
First Quarter Moon
Waxing Gibbous Moon
Full Moon
Waning Gibbous Moon
Third Quarter Moon
Waning Crescent Moon

• orbit: the path a revolving body follows.
• revolution: the motion of one object around another.
• rotate: spin around.
• star: a ball of hot gas that gives off light and other types of energy that range greatly in size and energy.

 

TEACHER RESOURCES

1. NSTA  Next Generation Sci Standards: topics  *   Learning Center  *   Classroom Resources 
2. Discovery videos and lesson ideas  
3.  Open Ed -   Background and lesson
4. The Science Spot lessons
5. Learning in Action
6. NJ Center for Teaching & Learning
7. Brainpop

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES

1. Gravity - Galileo
2. Bouncing Ball- Lab Charts
3. Day & Night - Four mile lab
4. Day - Night video
5. Size of Shadows  - Lab
6. Exploring light and Shadows
7. Shadow Play
8. Gravity Water Drop
9. Constellation Cards
10. Making Shadows

 

 

 

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MORE SCIENCE WEBSITES

  Weather & Atmosphere     

WEATHER ~ Characteristics of air: moisture, temperature, wind, & pressure

1. Weather Wiz Kids
2. Tree House Weather for Kids -> Clouds & Moisture > Rain, snow & Sleet Audio - Illinios Univ.
3. Web Weather for Kids > Blizzards / Winter Weather - U car
4. USA Today Weather 
   Temperatures, forecasts, and weather-related stories from around the US. 
5. Earth revolving around the sun  
6. Overview  - Storm Chasers by PBS 
7. Extreme Weather - NSSL

      GUIDES

1. Reading Weather Maps
2. Examine features to look for on weather maps to make forecasts such as surface and area observations and temperature, learn general methods of preparing a forecast, and more specific tips for specific scenarios.

Hurricanes         

Watch
1.  How hurricanes work  - How Stuff Works
2. Hurricane  Basics - National Geographic Kids

Research Help

1. Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Intensity Scale - NOAA
2. Sea surface Temperature  - Archived world map 

      NOAA DATA
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- National Hurricane Center
1.  Past Tracks of storms by year  - Atlantic Basin Overview 
2.  Atlantic Hurricane Track Maps & images for every storm 
3.    Weather Underground Archive  : pressure, deaths, damage and landfall 
4.  HurricaneScience c
5. NOAA  Hurricane Lesson  -  Global Impact
6. NOAA  Katrina, Recipe for Disaster  - storm surge animation 
7. NOAA  Environmental Consequences  -  before /after images 
8.  Hurricane Katrina  
9.  Hurricanes  & Storms- SciJinks
10.  Hurricane Hunters  - planes

Tornadoes and Cyclones

1. The Birth of a Tornado  - MSNBC
2. Freaky Forces of Nature

Cyclones

1. Cyclones  - WeatherUnderground
2. Cyclone Archive  - WeatherUnderground
3. Cyclone Page
4. Joint Typhoon warning Center
5. Wild Weather - Tornadoes   
6.   Tropical Cyclone Advisory Archive   - Select year, hurricane, GRAPHICS ARCHIVE

El Nino

1. NOAA DATA 
2. Hurricane Outlook 2015

CONVERSION TABLES    
*   Temperatures 
*   Pressure   - millabars to inches of mercury   more 
*   Pressure units

Analyze & Present Keynote

• An analysis, comparison and / or contrast of selected extreme weather
• Graphs to consolidate, clarify and display your data 
• Select images or screen shot (command, shift & 4)
• Links to  animations or video
• Bibliography  FOR ALL IMAGES and RESEARCH
• Use vocabulary - wind speed, Sea surface temerature (SST), wind direction, jet stream, air pressure, storm surge, precipitation 

Landforms

* Map Machine by National Geographic
Physical map, political map, volcanoes, SST & so much more

Ocean Floor

1. Deep Sea Challenge - Nat. Geo
2. Ocean Floor Reveal
3. Satellites reveal - Science

Types of Landforms

1. Landforms around the world  - Mr. Nussbaum
2. Types of Lands  - Hardcourt Publisher 
3. Landforms photos  are natural features of the landscape - PEI, Can
4. Images - Landsat Science - NASA
5. Geography for Kids  - Landforms and Erosions 
6. US Landforms  - World Atlas 
7. Earth From Space
8. Changes over time - USGS

Plate Tectonics

1. Continents forming Animation  - PBS 
2. Tectonic Plates - animation- New Zealand
3. Plate Tectonics  -See plates, volcanoes, quakes & faults - Math & Science
4. Dynamic Earth  - Learner

Images

• 1000's of ocean bottom Mountains discovered
• New island 2015
• South Pacific- New island 2007

1. Grand Canyon
2. Volcanoes
3. NASA Images
4. NASA Slideshow
5. NASA -  Nile delta  & search for more images 
6. NASA -  Observing Earth  select MIRAVI: Earth Live 
7. New African Rift  - the beginning of a new ocean 
8. Antartica  - ghost mountains under the snow 
9. How Greenland's Ice Sheet will respond to a warming world
10. Samoa underwater volcano
11. Winery located on the San Andres Fault
12. de Rose Winery  big hit with seismologists
13. Volcano Vacations
14.   Active Volcanoes
15. Waterfalls

Global Warming

1. Global Warming Effects on the world  - National Geographics
2. NOAA Snow animations
3. Loss of water in California

Quiz

1. Superlatives  - Fact Monster
2. Air, Water, Land Quiz  - NASA
3. Land Forms Quiz
4. Geography 4 Kids
5. Earthquake lessons  - Science Links

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Astronomy

Orad International Space Station ell's Own Astronaut:  Wally Schirra

Basic Information

1. 1. Virgingalactic
   2. Can you wring out a washcloth in space? - NASA
   3. International Space Station *  IMAGES
   4. Space Station Tour * Sunita Williams (25 min) * Mike Finke Tour 10 minute
   5. NASA  &  Goddard Education 
   6. NASA for Students 5-8th grade
   7. Challenging the Space Frontier  * HISTORY Timeline - Scholastic 
   8. What is the Space Shuttle?   
   9. NASA -To the Moon  - PBS 
      Survey 360 degrees of the moon and listen to the astronauts talk 
   10. Mars Exploration Rover Mission  Spirit and Opportunity
   11. StarChild  - A Learning Center for Young Astronomers.  Starchild - Level 1  with audio

SPACESUIT

1. What is a spacesuit?  with videos 
2. A  Space Suit - Star Child
3. Clickable Spacesuit
4. QUIZ:  Spacesuit Boutique  - Starchild 

EXPLORE

1. Nasa Space Day 
2. NASA Kid's Club
3. Astro Adventure
   Use on PC's with Real Player and shockwave, has teacher guide.
4. Gravity Launch  - Sciencenetlinks 

Packet Links
Views of the Solar System   

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Mixtures & Solutions   

BASICS

1. Chemistry
2. States of matter: gas, liquid or solid
3. Metric numbers to remember
4. Distance Converter

ELEMENTS

1. Chem4Kids  
   Covers most vocabulary and concepts covered in chemistry unit; self-paced; students read materials; self-assessment; immediate feedbacks
2. Chemicool Periodic Table  
   Info about elements of periodic table; Online “chemistry calculator” converts units of energy, pressure, volume, temperature, mass, and power
3. Periodic Table  - Chicago U. 
4. Interactives - Periodic table
   4.1  Periodictable  - showing objects using element
   4.2  Periodic Table  
5. Los Alamos National Laboratory  includes, use, handling and cost of elements 
   How to use the periodic table for students. 
6. Bayer Periodic Table of Elements  - Making Science make sense 
7. Chemical Elements  - atomic structure drawing 
8. LennTech database:  sort elements by name, atomic number, mass, etc.
9. Chemistry Society  element uses, description and artistic icons
10. WebElements

INTERACTIVE LABS

1. The ChemCollective: Virtual Lab
2. Explore Learning: Element Builder Gizmo  5 minute time limit
3. Salts & Solubility  - PhET simulations
4. *  Density Lab  - Explorelearning
5. Build an Atom - PHet

Raptors

BALD EAGLES

1. Eaglets Features & Adaptations   - Journey North   Human inventions 
2. Focus on Feathers
3. Research ARKive  *  Save the eagle  - Utah
4. JN for Kids Slideshows   - Journey North

Survival in a Wild habitat
Bald Eagle nests
Take a Closer Look - what do you see?
All Eyes on Eagles - What helps him survive?
Peek into the Nest 
Take a Closer Look - then Exploring Tools for Research 
Field Day for Eagles
U25's Amazing Spring Migration 
 

4.   Follow the Bald Eagle Migration   - Journey North

START

• Spring Weekly Updates 
• Migration Archive
• Eagles   - US Map
• Compare Migrations 2006-09
• Spring 2011 Map   - nothing yet!
• Eagle Capture Stories
• Lake Superior Data   - 30 years

Owls

5.   Virtural Owl Pellet Dissection   - kidwings *   Dirty Jobs  - Discovery Channel    
6.   How Much Does an Owl Eat?   - kidwings 

Raptor Research

1. All About Birds: Owls   - Cornell University
2. Owls   - ARKive 
3. All About Birds: Hawks   - Cornell University 
4. Red-tailed Hawks   - ARKive
5. Birds of Prey   - Birds of North America 
6. Vultures  - BBC
7. Raptors & tennis
   
   AUDIO   
      Owl audio   - owlpages
      Owl audio   - junglewalk 
      Bird audio   - enature

Raptor Webcams

1. Osprey video  - arkive
2. Doris Duke Eagle Cam
3. Pittsburgh Eagle Cam
4. Raptor Cams  - Cornell University
5. Bald Eagle Nest   - California
6. The eagles of Hornby Island  , BC, Canada 
7. Nest Cams   - RRP Raptoresource 
8. Decorah Eagles   - ustream
9. Franklin Institiute Hawk nest   - Philadelphia 
10. Palisades Stateline   Hawk Watch