1. Potato Power
This is an lesson/activity where students will learn how a battery works by making a simple circuit using potatoes to light up an led clock.
The students are learning about pollution and other ways humans impact the environment. They will also learn ways they can prevent or decrease the negative impact humans have on the environment and ways they can help keep the earth a great place.
Students will have the opportunity to learn facts about the moon and what factors would affect us if we would have to live there. They will then create how they believe a colony on the moon would work and why they created it the way they did.
4. Glue Making
Students will learn the properties of glue and how glue works. They will also learn about the history of glue and as their final project they will make their own glue. They can build something or make a craft to see how well their glue holds up the the store bought kind.
This lesson will show students how water and other chemicals can cause erosion and weathering. The first activity they have the students doing is putting a life safer in their mouth and then talking about why they believe it got smaller.
6. Time Machine
Student will be divided up into groups and assigned a time period to study. They all have to study the same area, I would recommend the state the school is located in, and answer questions about how the area was different year and years ago.
Students can each make their own experiment by cutting a 2 liter bottle in half and adding ice to the top of the bottle that will be sitting upside down in the bottom of the bottle. They will observe what happens throughout the day and relate that to the weather and what happens to make weather.
Student will first categorize school supplies and pasta so they understand how to look at characteristics and put them into categories. Using this knowledge students will then inspect rocks and minerals and classify them into different categories.
Student will explore the different components in soil along with the different types of soil. They will also explore the process of how soil is formed and the different characteristics of soil.
The students will learn about what a tree needs to grow and how it survives and fights agains other plants and organisms to get what it needs. They will also learn about how to tell how old a tree is and a simple explanation of why it is like that.
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