Students will locate and learn the purpose of various expository text features, including captions, diagrams, keywords, and glossaries, using any magazine.
Guide students to identify and analyze various expository structures like description, sequence, and cause/effect. They will read texts, recognize signal words, and write their own structured examples.
Students will practice phonics by listening to words ending in -le. They will then identify and circle the correct spelling, reinforcing their understanding of stable syllables.
Challenge students to locate and correct misspelled vocabulary words within sentences. They will rewrite each sentence correctly, strengthening their spelling and editing skills.
Students model absolute dating and half-life with candy. Graph Carbon-14 decay, solve problems, and apply probability to date rocks and fossils.
Students will actively observe Earth's plate tectonics with a simple chocolate demonstration. They'll witness crust break apart, magma rise, and understand earthquakes and igneous rock formation.
Students develop an Earth Science concept map in Google Drawing, connecting terms from geology, astronomy, and meteorology. They'll organize core concepts and use a collaborative tool. Rubric included.
Students design and conduct an experiment to determine the densities of various rocks and minerals. They will apply scientific inquiry to calculate mass, volume, and density.