Master Teacher lessons
Big Idea:
Students research bees and how their specialized body parts help them in survival and contribute to the success of plant survival and reproduction.
Big Idea:
Students study how a daffodil bulb is specifically designed to weather a long cold winter because of specific adaptive parts.
Big Idea:
Using common white powders, observation, recording and deduction skills are practiced in this entry level experiment. Students practice teamwork skills and develop lab rapport.
Big Idea:
This final written assessment has been redesigned to fit NGSS allowing students to choose what they are writing about as they demonstrate mastery of the standards.
Big Idea:
Today we learn more facts about how sound travels, use those fact and our discoveries from yesterday to write about what we have learned.
Big Idea:
Students write a paragraph assessing that they can connect data collected from their scientific models as evidence that weathering changes the landscape in the real world.
Big Idea:
Students read a Scholastic News article, "Deep Trouble," to examine the causes and effects of rising sea levels around the world.
Big Idea:
Students will use a character sketch to describe the thoughts, words, and actions of the grandfather in the story Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
Big Idea:
Students will examine the effects of Hurricane Andrew through a close read.
Big Idea:
Students often insert opinion into informative writing. Today we will write about a topic that students will have an opinion about. Our goal today is to help students keep opinions out of informational writing.
Big Idea:
Students will write to explain the weather and climate we experience in the world around us.
Big Idea:
Students use a web quest to guide research to learn about famous African Americans.
Big Idea:
The water cycle is a fun lesson all on its own, but to help students understand that water can move and take on different forms is not so easy. In this lesson students will create their own water molecule adventure while following through the water cycle.
Big Idea:
Students will use a timeline graphic organizer to construct a written summary.
Big Idea:
Students view and read texts on earthquakes and write analytic summaries.
