4th Period
Integrated Science
4th Quarter Calendar

Date Class Activities
3/31

Energy, Relationships, and Owls - webquest using links on web page to investigate information about owls and how they get and use energy and how we study them. (Learning Activity)

4/2 View Race the Sun
4/4

Finish Eagle Food Webs (Assessment)
Finish Energy, Relationships, and Owls (Learning Activity)
Finish Endangered Species Presentation (Project)

Organisms and Energy Brochure - Create a brochure that illustrates how important energy is to living things. (Project)

Choose one organmism and show:

  1. How it senses energy in its environment
  2. Ways that it responds to changes in the amount of energy
  3. Its energy niche in its environment
  4. Relationships that it has with others because of energy
  5. Behaviors / Adaptations it has because of energy

 

4/8 Cut and Paste Vocabulary Quiz - Cut and paste definitions and illustrations to match the terms from your vocabulary.(Assessment)
View Race the Sun
4/10 Forces of Flight - in the computer lab do research on the 4 forces flight and extensive research on the 1 force that you were assigned. Use links on my website.
Notes: Interactions (notebook)
Finish Viewing Race the Sun
4/14 Simple Machines - Using the internet, identify the 6 types of simple machines, describe how they work, diagram each, and give 3-5 examples of each. (Learning Activity)
Organisms and Energy Project
4/16 Substitute
Video: Owls - Watch Owl video in preparation for owl pellet dissection and write information about owls and energy.(Learning Activity)
Lab: Owl Pellet Dissection - Participate in dissecting an owl pellet and complete your worksheet to analyze your observations of the content of the pellet. (Learning Activity)
4/18 Photosynthesis and Respiration - Complete foldable that illustrates the dynamics of photosynthesis and respiration and the chemistry that takes place in each process. (Learning Activity)
4/22

Finish Photosynthesis and Respiration
Online Test: Relationships and Owls - Online test to show competency on energy relationships and how organisms respond to various forms of energy.(Assessment)
Food Energy Research
-Use the Organism Menu to gather information about organisms to create a food web and be able to discuss their relationships. (Learning Activity)
Complete any computer work. Last Day!

4/24 Video: Science Court / Gravity
4/28 Standard 2 Assessment B - Written assessment of your understanding of photosynthesis and respiration, food webs, and interactions between living things. (Assessment)
RG: The Nature of Light - Reading assignment from Chapter 22 in the Physical Science text to build background knowledge about light energy.
4/30

Video: Bill Nye on Waves - Create a concept map of concepts that you learned about waves from Bill Nye video on Waves. (Learning Activity)
Notes: Photosynthesis vs Respiration (notebook)

5/2 Group Poster Assessment: Food Energy Posters - working as a group create a poster that illustrates your understanding of the roles that organisms play in an ecosystem, how energy enters, changes, and then leaves an ecosystem and what matter is needed and released as the result of photosynthesis and respiration. (Assessment)
5/6 Notes: Kinetic and Potential Energy (notebook)
Notes: Conservation of Energy (notebook)

Calculating Potential Energy - use the formula and the data given to calculate the amount of potential energy that is illustrated in each diagram. Show your work. (Learning Activity)
Calculation Kinetic Energy - use the formula and the data given to calculate the amount of kinetic energy that is illustrated in each diagram. Show your work. (Learning Activity)
5/8
Science Court: Work and Simple Machines - Answer questions as you view Science Court as Mr. Sludge takes Mary to court for being the laziest worker and sends her to the dreaded pit. (Learning Activity)
Machine Books - work on creating a children's book that describes what machines are and how they work and shows examples of everyday things that we use that are simple machines. Color, classify, and cut-out graphics. (Project)
5/12 Machines Book Project - work on creating a children's book that describes what machines are and how they work and shows examples of everyday things that we use that are simple machines. (Project)
5/14 Machines, Work, and Energy Test (Assessment)
Machine Books - work on creating a children's book that describes what machines are and how they work and shows examples of everyday things that we use that are simple machines. Color, classify, and cut-out graphics. (Project)
5/16 Lab: Experimenting with Potential and Kinetic Energy (Learning Activity)
5/20 Science CRT (Assessment)
5/22 Science CRT (Assessment)
Hot Air Balloons
5/27 Hot Air Balloons
5/29 Hot Air Balloons