Teacher: Sarah Caulfeild
Year:
2007-2008
Course: Science 2
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Weather
Essential
Questions
Content
Skills
How does weather Daily weather
Recognize and
change?
patterns
describe daily
(temperature, rain, weather patterns.
snow, clouds)
Standards
SC.01.01.02 ~ Knows that water can be
a liquid or a solid and can be made to
change from one form to the other, but
the amount of water stays the same
SC.01.01.03 ~ Knows that short-term
weather conditions (e.g., temperature,
Explain and
The water cycle.
demonstrate how rain, snow) can change daily, and
(water moves from water gets into the weather patterns change over the
seasons
Earth to air and
air.
back again SC.11.01.01 ~ Knows that the Sun
evaporation,
supplies heat and light to Earth
condensation,
precipitation)
Describe different
SC.15.01.01 ~ Knows that learning can
types of weather
come from careful observations and
(sunny, rainy,
simple experiments
snowy, cloudy,
foggy).
Different types of
SC.15.01.02 ~ Knows that tools (e.g.,
weather (sunny,
thermometers, magnifiers, rulers,
rainy, snowy,
balances) can be used to gather
cloudy, party
information and extend the senses
cloudy, foggy).
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Weather
Essential
Questions
Content
Skills
Standards
What is the pattern Weather patterns
of the seasons?
change with the
seasons.
Recognize
seasonal weather
patterns.
How do living
things change with Daylight patterns
the seasons?
change with the
seasons.
SC.15.01.01 ~ Knows that learning can
Explain seasonal
changes in daylight come from careful observations and
simple experiments
patterns.
People and other
Describe how
SC.01.01.03 ~ Knows that short-term
weather conditions (e.g., temperature,
rain, snow) can change daily, and
weather patterns change over the
seasons
SC.15.01.02 ~ Knows that tools (e.g.,
thermometers, magnifiers, rulers,
balances) can be used to gather
information and extend the senses
living things adjust
to seasonal
changes in
weather.
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people and other
living things adjust
to seasonal
changes in
weather.
Making Sound
Essential
Questions
How is sound
made?
How does sound
travel?
Content
Sound is energy.
Sound is made
when matter
vibrates.
Sounds travel
differently through
different states of
matter (solids,
liquids, gases).
Vibrations in the
human ear cause
us to hear sound.
Skills
Standards
Observe objects
SC.12.01.01 ~ Knows that vibrating
vibrating and listen objects produce sound
to the sounds
produced.
SC.15.01.01 ~ Knows that learning can
come from careful observations and
Describe
simple experiments
sounds as they are
manipulated.
Create a sound
making instrument
and describe how it
works.
Experiment with
how sounds travel
through different
types of matter.
Explain how
sounds are
controlled.
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Making Sound
Essential
Questions
How do sounds
change?
Content
Pitch and volume
Skills
Recognize that
sounds can be
described by pitch
and volume.
Manipulate the
pitch and volume of
Standards
SC.12.01.01 ~ Knows that vibrating
objects produce sound
SC.15.01.01 ~ Knows that learning can
come from careful observations and
simple experiments
a sound.
Describe how the
pitch and volume of
a sound can be
changed.
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Rocks, Soils, and Fossils
Essential
Questions
Content
What are the
Properties of
properties of rocks minerals, rocks,
and soils?
and soils.
How rocks and
soils can change.
Skills
Standards
Observe different SC.01.01.01 ~ Knows that Earth
minerals, rocks and materials consist of solid rocks, soils,
soils.
liquid water, and the gases of the
atmosphere
Compare rocks and
soils.
SC.02.01.01 ~ Knows that rocks come
in many different shapes and sizes
(e.g., boulders, pebbles, sand)
Explore how water
and wind can
change Earth's
surface.
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Rocks, Soils, and Fossils
Essential
Questions
What are fossils?
How can fossils
provide clues about
plants and animals
that lived in the
past?
Content
Types of fossils
(imprint and cast).
Skills
Create the two
different types of
fossils.
Fossils are used to
give information
Describe how two
about the living
types of fossils are
things of the past. created.
Standards
SC.09.01.01 ~ Knows that some kinds
of organisms that once lived on Earth
have completely disappeared (e.g.,
dinosaurs, trilobites, mammoths, giant
tree ferns, horsetail trees)
Explain how fossils
can teach us about
living organisms
from the past.
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Earth Through Time
Essential
Questions
What are fossils?
Content
Skills
Fossil imprints and
remains give us
clues about
dinosaur size,
shape and mobility.
Compare dinosaurs
based on their
characteristics
(size, teeth,
movements).
Dinosaurs had
different types of
teeth for different
types of food.
Infer the shape of
the dinosaur based
on its skeleton.
How can scientists
learn about
Location of fossils
dinosaurs?
gives clues about
what prehistoric era
the dinosaur lived
in (Triassic,
What is a
Jurassic,
dinosaur?
Cretaceous).
How can dinosaurs
be classified?
M Interaction of Living Things
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SC.04.01.01 ~ Knows that plants and
animals have features that help them
live in different environments
SC.09.01.01 ~ Knows that some kinds
of organisms that once lived on Earth
Compare the sizes have completely disappeared (e.g.,
of dinosaurs.
dinosaurs, trilobites, mammoths, giant
tree ferns, horsetail trees)
Compare teeth of
dinosaurs. Explain
that flat teeth are
used to grind plants
and sharp teeth are
used to tear meat.
Create a dinosaur
time line including
the Triassic,
Jurassic and
Cretaceous
Dinosaurs lived on periods.
Earth hundreds of
millions of years
ago and are now
extinct.
Infering a
dinosaur's shape
from its skeleton.
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How have people
had a negative
impact on the
Earth?
Content
Natural resources
Skills
Identify natural
resources.
SC.01.01.01 ~ Knows that Earth
materials consist of solid rocks, soils,
liquid water, and the gases of the
atmosphere
Describe the uses
of natural
resources.
SC.01.01.02 ~ Knows that water can be
a liquid or a solid and can be made to
change from one form to the other, but
the amount of water stays the same
Environment
How do people
change the
environment?
How can people
protect natural
resources?
Standards
People change the
environment
SC.02.01.01 ~ Knows that rocks come
in many different shapes and sizes
Explain how people
(e.g., boulders, pebbles, sand)
can change the
environment.
People can protect
SC.11.01.01 ~ Knows that the Sun
natural resources
supplies heat and light to Earth
Describe ways that
people can
conserve natural
resources.
Indentify materials
that can be
recycled.
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Interaction of Living Things
Essential
Questions
How have people
had a negative
impact on the
Earth?
What can people
do to fix the
damage that has
been caused on
Content
Causes of air,
water and land
pollution.
Natural resource
conservation
How to reduce
Skills
Identify and expalin
the main causes of
water, air and land
pollution
Standards
SC.01.01.01 ~ Knows that Earth
materials consist of solid rocks, soils,
liquid water, and the gases of the
atmosphere
SC.06.01.01 ~ Knows that animals
require air, water, food, and shelter;
plants require air, water, nutrients, and
Describe how
pollution affects the light
survival of animals
in the environment SC.08.01.01 ~ Knows that plants and
animals need certain resources for
the planet?
pollution
How to conserve
natural resources
M Earth Through Time
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Research possible energy and growth (e.g., food, water,
ways to reduce
light, air)
pollution and
conserve natural
resources
Skills
What makes up an Characteristics of Describe an
environment?
living and nonliving environment
things
Why is important to
protect and
Characteristics of
preserve
an environment
environments?
How do
environments
change?
Animals use their
environments to
meet their needs
Animals adapt to
changes in their
environment
Recognize living
and nonliving
things in an
environment
Explain how
animals use the
living and nonliving
things in their
environments to
meet their needs
Describe how
animals adapt to
changes in their
environment
Explain
how people can
change the
environment in
ways that harms
animals and plants
Standards
SC.04.01.01 ~ Knows that plants and
animals have features that help them
live in different environments
SC.05.01.02 ~ Knows that differences
exist among individuals of the same
kind of plant or animal
SC.06.01.01 ~ Knows that animals
require air, water, food, and shelter;
plants require air, water, nutrients, and
light
SC.07.01.01 ~ Knows that living things
are found almost everywhere in the
world and that distinct environments
support the life of different types of
plants and animals
SC.08.01.01 ~ Knows that plants and
animals need certain resources for
energy and growth (e.g., food, water,
light, air)
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How do an animal's
characteristics help
it to survive in its
habitat?
Animals and plants
are equipped with
specific
characteristics
designed for
survival
Skills
Standards
Identify animal
SC.04.01.01 ~ Knows that plants and
characteristics that animals have features that help them
are linked to animal live in different environments
survival
SC.05.01.02 ~ Knows that differences
Explain the
exist among individuals of the same
influence that
kind of plant or animal
humans have on
animals' survival
SC.06.01.01 ~ Knows that animals
How can the
changes that
people make to the
environment inhibit
animals' survival? Endangered
animals: the
reasons for animals
that are at risk of
Identify ways that
extinction
humans can help to
protect animal and
plant species
require air, water, food, and shelter;
plants require air, water, nutrients, and
light
SC.07.01.01 ~ Knows that living things
are found almost everywhere in the
world and that distinct environments
support the life of different types of
plants and animals