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1st QUARTER
COURSE TITLE:
Science
Unit Title and Objectives
Unit: Scientific Method
WEEK 1-2—OBJECTIVE
Continuous Objective: Implement the
Scientific Method throughout science
experiments
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Know the seven steps of the scientific method
and use them to solve scientific problems
Identify the problem, form a hypothesis, test a
hypothesis
WEEK 3-4 OBJECTIVE
Identify specialized structures and
senses describing how they help
plants and animals survive in their
environment
I can define and describe a cell
I can describe, and label the kingdom of living
things
I can label the parts of a plant cell
I can classify plants and animals
Students complete a quiz over scientific
method
The students will complete a lab sheet of a
plant cell drawing
Students will complete the Chapter 1
assessment of classifying plants and animals
The students will complete a concept web for
plant and animal classification
I can use a microscope
I can describe how animals adapt to their
surroundings
Know most living things get energy from the
sun
The students will label a lab sheet of the parts
of a microscope
The students will construct a food chain
and write a brief summary of its contents
Construct a food web and food chain
Define herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore
Show how energy flows in an ecosystem
Compare and contrast common
fossils found in Missouri to organisms
present on Earth today
Students will apply the scientific method on a
test that incorporates the earlier quiz with an
additional application of the scientific method
Make a conclusion and conduct further
experimentation
I know that all living things have cells
Recognize cues for organisms
behavior and identify and predict
plant or animal survival and
interaction with our environment
The students will complete a study guide of
the 7 steps
End-of-Unit Benchmark or
Performance Assessment
Observe, record, and analyze data
Unit: Life Science; Ecology,
Ch 1 Classifying Plants and Animals
Unit: Life Science; Ecology,
Chapter 3 Ecosystems 1,2,3
WEEK 5-6 OBJECTIVES
Analyze, differentiate, and classify
consumers, producers, and
decomposers
Brief Description of
Formative Assessment(s)
4
I can define a system; desert, grassland,
tundra, forest, tropical, and rainforest
ecosystem
Define a habitat
Identify trilobites, ferns, crinoids, bivalves,
fish, mastodon, and gastropods
The students will journal a collage of
ecosystems with a description of each
ecosystem in a chart like display
The students will define and draw the
identification of each of the learned
Missouri fossils
The student will create a power point
presentation of all chapter vocabulary
The student will complete the Chapter 3
assessment of ecosystems
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COURSE TITLE:
Science
Unit Title and Objectives
GRADE:
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Unit: Life Science, Ecology Chapter 4
Changes in Ecosystems
WEEK 7—OBJECTIVES
Recognize how different
environments support the life of
plants and animals
Explain how people disturb the balance of
an ecosystem
Tell how ecosystems are balanced
Know how environments change
Can define competition, parasite, host,
extinct, endangered and hazardous waste
Unit: Life Science, Health, and
Nutrition
Chapter 5 Systems of the Human
Body
WEEK 8-9 OBJECTIVES
Analyze, classify, and describe the
food Pyramid and the importance of
Healthy Living
Recognize the food pyramid know each of
the food groups while understanding
what each serving suggestion is for a
healthy body
Define and describe what each of the
skeletal, muscular, respiratory,
circulatory, and nervous systems do in
the body
Define voluntary and involuntary muscles
Describe, label, and construct the
skeletal system
Define Infectious disease, pathogens,
immune system, and vaccine
Brief Description of
Formative Assessment(s)
The students will complete an exit slip
“What did I learn today?”
4
End-of-Unit Benchmark or
Performance Assessment
The students will complete the Chapter 4
assessment of Changes in Ecosystems
The students will complete a journal
entry of the vocabulary definitions
The students will complete the clicker
quiz of the changes in ecosystems
The students will create and share a 7 day
menu in a power point in class while
using the food pyramid as a reference
The students will label the skeletal and
respiratory systems
The students will complete the Chapter 5
assessment
The students will complete a vocabulary
assessment of Chapters 1 through 5
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COURSE TITLE:
Science
Unit Title and Objectives
Unit: Earth Science, Earth Systems
Chapter 8 Minerals and Rocks
WEEK 1 OBJECTIVES
Observe and compare the physical
properties of rocks and mixtures of
different earth materials
Unit: Earth Science
Changes to Earth’s Surface 1
Chapter 9
WEEK 2—OBJECTIVES
Identify earth’s landforms and
describe the weathering agents and
erosion process
Unit: Earth Science
Changes to Earth’s Systems 2
Chapter 9
WEEK 3—OBJECTIVES
Identify the human effect on the
environment
GRADE:
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4
Brief Description of
Formative Assessment(s)
End-of-Unit Benchmark or
Performance Assessment
Define minerals, luster, Mohs scale,
sediment, sedimentary rock, igneous
rock, metamorphic rock
Determine the hardness of a mineral
Describe the sedimentary , igneous and
metamorphic rock processes
Describe the rock cycle
The students will complete a quiz to show
the seven steps of the scientific method
and 10 questions showing knowledge of
rocks and minerals
The students will complete the Chapter 8
assessment covering Minerals and Rocks
Know processes of weathering and
erosion change the surface of the earth
Know that the earth’s surface can change
rapidly or slowly
Know how weathering and erosion move
the earth’s surface with constant change
Define landform, weathering, erosion,
deposition, landslide, volcano, fault,
earthquake, epicenter
Describe earth’s landforms; mountains,
valleys, canyons, plains, plateaus, and
peninsulas
Describe erosion process of action of
gravity, waves, wind, river, and glaciers
Identify ways humans effect the
environment by clearing land, planting
vegetation, paving land, constructing new
buildings, farming, mining, recycling,
composting, and decreasing soil erosion
Understand the necessity to conserve
energy
The students will complete each section
of “How well do you know”
comprehension questions at the end of
each lesson
The students will complete Chapter 9
assessment covering Changes to Earth’s
Systems
The students will complete the end of the
chapter review questions
The students will complete Chapter 9
assessment covering Changes to Earth’ s
Systems
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COURSE TITLE:
Science
GRADE: 4
Unit Title and Objectives
List CLTs for Each Objective
Brief Description of
Formative Assessment(s)
Unit: Earth Science
Chapter 10
Using Natural Resources
Describe the properties of earth materials
Identify properties of soil
Describe the sun as a source of heat and
light
Know what a nonrenewable resource is
Describe a fossil fuel and how it is made
The students will complete the end of the
lesson review questions in journal format
Define density, mixture, solution, solute,
solvent, solubility, physical change, and
chemical change
Detect the difference between physical
and chemical change
Observe, identify, and classify the states
of matter using common things found in
the classroom
Describe and compare the volume of an
object using a graduated cylinder
Observe and describe mixtures
Recognize that mass remains the same
together or apart
The students will complete the end of the
lesson review questions in journal format
WEEK 4—OBJECTIVES
Identifies and describe the
components of soil and its properties
Unit: Physical Science
Chapter 11
Properties of Matter
WEEK 5—OBJECTIVES
Compare, measure, combine, and
separate the physical properties of
matter
End-of-Unit Benchmark or
Performance Assessment
The students complete Chapter 9
assessment coveringthe Changes to
Earth’s Systems
The students will complete a quiz
The students will conduct an experiment
to show their knowledge of the scientific
method and knowledge of mixtures,
measuring, and combinations
The students will complete the end of
Chapter 11 assessment
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COURSE TITLE:
Science
Unit Title and Objectives
Unit: Physical Science
Chapter 12 Heat
WEEK —OBJECTIVES
Classify materials as conductors or
insulators of electricity
Unit: Physical Science
Chapter 13 Electricity and Magnetism
WEEK —OBJECTIVES
Construct and diagram a complete
electric circuit and observe the
relationship between electricity and
magnetism
GRADE:
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Define thermal energy, conduction,
conductor, insulator, conductor,
insulator, convection current, and
radiation
Observe which material is the best heat
conductor
Observe and classify objects as
conductors or insulators
Define static electricity, electric currents,
resistance, series circuit, parallel circuit,
magnetism, magnetic field,
electromagnetic
Describe how static electricity can affect
objects
I can describe the difference between an
insulator and a conductor
I can describe how a magnet works, and
uses of a magnet
I can identify the parts of a circuit
I can identify three ways electromagnets
are used
Brief Description of
Formative Assessment(s)
4
End-of-Unit Benchmark or
Performance Assessment
Students will complete the end of the
lesson review sections as each lesson is
completed
Lab Zone; chapter directed inquiry
assessing student ability to implement
the lab and use the scientific method and
chapter concepts
The students will complete the end of the
lessons review questions
The students will complete Chapter 13
assessment
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COURSE TITLE:
Science
Unit Title and Objectives
Unit: Physical Science
Force and Motion
Chapter 15 Objects in Motion 1
WEEK 1—OBJECTIVES
Predict the affects of an
electromagnetic force on the motion
of objects (attract or repel)
Unit: Physical Science
Force and Motion
Chapter 15 Objects in Motion 2
WEEK 2—OBJECTIVES
Predict how the change in speed of an
object is affected by the amount of
force
Unit: Physical Science
Force and Motion
Chapter 15 Objects in Motion 3
WEEK 3—OBJECTIVES
Identify, describe and classify how
unbalanced and balanced forces
acting on an object effect the motion
of the object
GRADE:
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Brief Description of
Formative Assessment(s)
4
End-of-Unit Benchmark or
Performance Assessment
Know how static electricity affects an
object
Know how neutral water is attracted to a
charged atom
The students will complete the
experiment with prediction of effects of
electrostatic force on motion of objects
The students will complete the end of
Chapter 15 assessment
Define relative motion, frame of
reference, speed, velocity, force, friction,
gravity, work, kinetic energy, and
potential energy
Describe what happens when uneven
forces act on an object
Define what is motion
Describe Newton’s 1st Law of Motion
Exit slips for What Did I Learn Today
Objects in motion vocabulary 3 column
chart
LAB Zone Experiment “Super Stack”
Identify, describe, and classify how forces
acting on an object affect the motion of
the object
The students will complete the exit slips
of “What I Learned Today”
The students will complete the end of
Chapter 15 assessment
Lab Zone Experiment “A Curious Coin”
Three column chart for Chapter 15
The students will complete the end of
Chapter 15 assessment
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COURSE TITLE:
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Unit Title and Objectives
Unit: Physical Science
Force and Motion
Chapter 15 Objects in Motion 4
WEEK 4—OBJECTIVES
Recognize and explain friction as a
force that slows down or stops
moving objects and compare how the
object moves over different surfaces
Unit: Physical Science Force and
Motion
Chapter 15 Objects in Motion 5
WEEK 5—OBJECTIVES
Recognize and explain friction as a
force that slows down or stops
moving objects
Compare how the object moves over
different surfaces
Determine the gravitational pull of
the earth on an object using a spring
scale
GRADE:
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4
Brief Description of
Formative Assessment(s)
End-of-Unit Benchmark or
Performance Assessment
Describe what is necessary to move
objects
Identify balanced and unbalanced forces
The students will complete the end of the
chapter lesson review questions
Assessments Lab Zone experiments “How
Does Friction Affect Motion” and “What
Is Friction”
Describe Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion
Exit slips for What I Know Today
Describe Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion
End of the lesson review questions
The students will complete the LAB
ZONE experiment Using a Spring Scale
Proper use of a spring scale to
determine the gravitational pull of the
earth on an object
Know how to calculate Moon to earth
weights
Describe kinetic energy
Describe potential energy
End of Chapter 15 assessment