CONTENT (General)

CONTENT (Specific)

ASSESSMENTS

ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS

Season of Summer

Discussion on how the season influences our activities.

Written/Oral

12.E.1a; 12.E.2a;

12.E.1b;12.E.2b;

12.E.1c; 12.E.2c

Sink or Float

Predict which objects will sink or float, then test them to observe and classify them by their properties.

Written/Oral

11.A.1a

12.D.1a;12.D.2a;

12.D.1b; 12.D.2b

Structures/properties of rocks/soil

Use observable properties to compare minerals and rocks.

Explain where rocks and minerals are found.

Give examples of how people use rocks.

Written/Oral

12.E.1a; 12.E.1b

Structures/properties of rocks/soil

Give examples of how weathering changes rocks.

Explain how rocks can be changed to sand.

Written/Oral

12.E.1a; 12.E.1b

Structures/properties of rocks/soil

Identify and describe the components of soil.

Infer how erosion changes the Earth’s surface.

Written/Oral

12.E.1a; 12.E.1b

Relationship between Earth and Sun

Model the relationship between size and distance and compare it to the relative sizes of the Earth, sun, and other stars.

Explain why light and heat from the sun are so important to us.

Written/Oral

12.C.1a; 12.C.1b

12.E.1a12.F.1a

12.F.1b

Relationship between Earth and Sun

Model the relationship between size and distance and compare it to the relative sizes of the Earth, sun, and other stars.

Explain why light and heat from the sun are so important to us.

Written/Oral

12.C.1a; 12.C.1b

12.E.1a 12.F.1a

12.F.1b

Relationship between Earth and Sun

Explain how shadows indicate the apparent movement of the sun.

Infer that the apparent movement of the sun is caused by the Earth’s rotation.

Model what causes day and night.

Written/Oral

12.F.1a 12.F.1b

Relationship between Earth and Sun

Explain how shadows indicate the apparent movement of the sun.

Infer that the apparent movement of the sun is caused by the Earth’s rotation.

Model what causes day and night.

Written/Oral

12.F.1a 12.F.1b

CONTENT (General)

CONTENT (Specific)

ASSESSMENTS

ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS

Solar System

Make paper rockets and discuss what is needed to survive in space.

Discuss weightlessness and what it would be like to travel in space. 

Oral participation and the finished rocket.

12D 12F

Traveling is space worksheets. 

Needs of astronauts.

Moon’s orbit around the Earth.

Review earth’s rotation, day and night, and the earth’s revolution around the sun.

Written

12D 12F

Identify the sun as our source of energy.

Identify the rotation of the planets compared to the sun.

Learn names and positions of the planets through a song..

Compare distance, size, temperature and other characteristics of the planets.

Read books and check the internet for planet information.

Quizzes, worksheets, and art work

12D 12F

Deserts

Introduce deserts  a KWL chart.

Identify and describe a desert.

Read books on desert animals and plants.

Make puppets of desert animals and locate specific deserts on individual maps.

Puppets and maps

12 B 12E

Discuss different desert weather and climate as found on the internet.

Compare cold deserts to hot deserts.

Discuss temperatures of the Sonoran, Sahara, and Antarctic.

Compare the temperature at Timbuktu, Africa to our temperature daily for a week.

Oral participation and written charts

12B 12E 13B

Build dioramas.

 Include plants and animals that are found in the desert.

Conduct an experiment on desert plant leaves.  Compare waxy succulent leaf to deciduous leaf.

Diorama and oral participation

12B 12 E 13B

Continue to work on dioramas.

Read books on deserts.

Dioramas

12B 12E

Write a poem about the desert and illustrate.

Written

12B 12E

Wrap unit up by writing the book A Walk in the Desert

Written

12B 12E

CONTENT (General)

CONTENT (Specific)

ASSESSMENTS

ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS

Study of Matter

Observe and classify objects by identifying various properties.

Measure the length and width of various objects using a standard unit.

Observe what happens when matter tries to occupy space already occupied and infer that matter takes up space.

Quizzes and worksheets

11A

Magnets and their properties

Structure/life cycles of plants in a meadow

Infer that only certain types of matter are attracted to a magnet.

Infer that magnets can attract through different materials and explain how this can be tested.

Give examples of several common uses for magnets.

Explain how the poles of two magnets interact with each other.

Infer that a magnet can be used as a compass to determine direction.

Experiment to see what kinds of objects can be magnetized.

Determine the strength of magnets.

Identify the parts of a plant.

Explain and give examples of how plants use stems, leaves, and flowers to meet their needs in the environment.

Explain and give examples of how a seed grows into a plant.

Describe how bees and other animals help plants make seeds.

Explain and give examples of how plants and animals interact in the environment.

Explain and give an example of a food chain.

Describe and give example of ways people interact with and use plants and animals.

Written/Oral

Written/Oral

12 D 13.A

12 A, 12B