C1: Introduction to Science videos

Instructions: Watch videos A. and B. below. :)  Label title and answer the following questions in your Science Notebooks.   Number each answer.  Do not write the questions; answer them in complete sentences. 

A. Defining a Problem: What do Scientists do?

1. What does a Scientist do when they have a problem to solve?

2. What does a scientist do after they "test it" ?

B. Inference and Observation

1. The speaker claims that "It is going to rain soon" is an inference; I disagree.  Why do I disagree and what do you think?  HINT: Look at your Do Now today.  

   

The Scientific Method Song

C. 

1. Watch the video, sing along to the song, then list the steps of the scientific method as sung in the video:  1. 

            2.  Ask a Question

            3. 

            4.  Do a Test or Experimentation

            5. 

Hint: I've done Steps 2. and 4. already, just fill in 1., 3., and 5.

Scientific Summer Essay

My Scientific Summer Essay

- We’ve learned about what science is.  Write a
150 word essay on your scientific experiences
over the summer.  

- Use the 5 paragraph essay format, and please
use loose leaf.

- Please use proper punctuation and spelling.

- You MUST use blue/black ink pen to write this.

If you would like to type it on a Google Docs, you

may do this.

- Use 10 "Science" words minimum and
underline/highlight them.

- Feel free to include a picture or an illustration
of a happy scientific summer moment! :)

- Paragraph #1: Introduction paragraph

   Paragraph #2: Physical Science words
   Paragraph #3: Earth Science words
   Paragraph #4: Life Science words
   Paragraph #5: Conclusion paragraph

Use 3 science words for each body paragraph; 10 TOTAL!
Relate it to your summer OR relate it to a DREAM/FANTASY summer. Coronaparty kinda changed our summer plans..... bleh. :)

- Enjoy reflecting on your summer holiday!

(Portfolio #1 - Due FRIDAY, 9/16/22)

C2 Online Exploration: Potential and Kinetic Energy

Video A.

1. Energy is the ability to do ____.
2. What are three sources of energy?
3. Energy cannot be _______ or _________, it can only be stored or transferred.  Put this statement in your own words.
4. Compare/Contrast Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy; how are they similar?  How are they different?

5. Make your own example of PE transforming into KE; draw a picture.

Video B. 

- The Story of Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy
1. What are two different ways that we can increase Kinetic Energy?
2. How is it that even air has energy?
3. What are two ways to increase Potential Energy?
4. "That Potential Energy will be transformed into Kinetic Energy.  What is happening in the video during this statement?

Video C.

1. The elastic potential energy in the spring is converted to _______  ______.

2. The gravitational _________ ______ is converted to kinetic energy. 

 3.  What is happening when potential energy is converted to kinetic energy?  Describe the actions.

     4.   Pretend you are an animator; create a cartoon of your own involving Potential and Kinetic                   Energy, and be sure to label both PE and KE.  

D. 1. What is the law of conservation of energy?  Put it into your own words.

     2. Energy is __________ from one type to _______.

     3. If Potential Energy is the energy of position, where will the rollercoaster have the maximum or most PE?
     4. Kinetic Energy deals with the energy of velocity or _____.

     5. As an object gains speed, it gains ______ energy. 

E. Energy in a Roller Coaster Ride

"This interactive roller coaster ride produced by WGBH illustrates the relationship between potential and kinetic energy. As the coaster cars go up and down the hills and around the loop of the track, a pie chart shows how energy is transformed back and forth between gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy."

Play with the interactive roller coaster ride here:Click Here to PLAY!

How does the PE and KE change at each of the 6 steps?  Think of the position and speed at each position.  

F. Brainpop Potential Energy
https://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/potentialenergy/
Watch the clip, take the review quiz, log your score into Science Notebooks

G. Brainpop Kinetic Energy
https://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/kineticenergy/

Watch the clip, take the review quiz, log your score into Science Notebooks

Ecology Online Exploration

1. Watch the brainpop video: https://www.brainpop.com/science/ecologyandbehavior/foodchains/

a. Play the food chain game: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm
b. Draw one of them and label: producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, decomposer 

2. Go to the website and answer the following questions:  http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/foodchain/producersconsumers.htm

a. What is the difference between a producer and a consumer?

b. Give three examples of each: herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore.

c. What are decomposers?  What would the environment look like if we had no decomposers?

3.  Play this game!  https://ecokids.ca/swf-files/gamesPage/chain_reaction.swf

Copy the NORTHERN Food Chain and the FOREST Food Chain into your notebooks and answer the following questions: a. What happens if you take the frog out of the FOREST Food Chain?

                                       b. What happens if you take the fish out of the NORTHERN Food Chain?

4.  http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/foodchain/foodchain.htm

a. Draw a picture of "photosynthesis."

5. http://www.goldridge08.com/1games/foodchain.swf

a. What does a food chain show?

b. What is the purpose of an arrow in the food chain?

c. Green plants are called _________ because they make their own ____.

d. Give three examples of a consumer.

e. If most food chains begin with green plants, where do they get their energy from?

f. What makes the bird both a predator and prey at the same time?

6. http://sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html

7. http://interactivesites.weebly.com/animal-classification.html

8. https://www.quia.com/jg/514533.html

9. https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/lsps07.sci.life.eco.oceanfoodweb/antarctic-food-web-game/#.Wx76U-4vypo

Chapter 6 & 7 Online Exploration of Weather and the Atmosphere

A. Air Pressure explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQ8FWnM0fA

1.       If the surrounding air is pressing down on the kids with ~15 lbs on every inch of their bodies, why aren’t they being crushed?

2.       How is air pressure different at sea level than higher up in the atmosphere?  Draw a picture.

3.       What is going on with the changes in volume with that balloon?

4.       An egg is used as a model for the thickness of the atmosphere, what makes this a good model?

***From 2:00 til the end, there are instructions on how to make a barometer.  Make one of these at home, measure the changes in air pressure, record your results.  TWO WEEK HOMEWORK PASS AWARDED***

B. The Water Cycle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al-do-HGuIk

1.       What are some benefits of water flowing on the earth?

2.       True/False: Life on earth could continue without the water cycle.

3.       What is meant by the terms “flows” and “stores”?

4.       70% of all the water on earth is found in the ______.

5.       2/3 of all the fresh water on earth is stored in ________.

6.       Precipitation: come up with your own definition.

7.       Compare/Contrast: Stream flow and surface runoff.

8.       How does water make its way into aquifers? 

9.       How does water get back into the atmosphere?  Describe the phase change.

10.   Transpiration: Illustrate this process.

11.   Describe the process of cloud formation, and include the following terms: cloud, condensation, smoke/dirt, cooled.

Daily Weather Journal

Daily Weather Journal - What is the weather today?

Make a journal of the weather explore how the weather affects your life!  Illustrate your experience with the weather today.  Use weather symbols, pictures, images; be creative!  Each journal entry should take up a full page; 1/2 page for Written information and 1/2 page for Illustration.

All weather is LOCAL.  Wherever you complete your weather journal and whichever time, use that TIME and LOCATION.

Written information

A. Weather Data
1. Temperature °F & °C 
2. Humidity (%)
3. Precipitation (in/mm)
4. Cloud cover

5. Wind speed (mi/h or km/h)

B. Personal Paragraph

- How does this weather affect you?  

How does it affect your clothing, outdoor activities, etc? 

How does the weather affect what you eat or drink, what

 you do, where you go, what you can or cannot do?  

***5 Sentence Summary***




Self Expression

C. Illustration - Be creative, make an illustration of what the weather means to you today and how it affects your daily life.  Illustrate your experience with the weather today.  Use weather symbols, pictures, images, be creative!  This should be ½ page.

Click on the link below to read MY weather journal!

 Mr.Considine's Weather Journal

Click on the link above to read MY weather journal!

Helpful websites: 

1. http://www.weather.com/   <---- search weather data 

2. http://www.wunderground.com/ <---- search weather data 

3. https://www.mathsisfun.com/temperature-conversion.html  <--- temperature conversion guide and information

4. live NYC webcams <--- find images here!

5. https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/united-states/new-york/new-york.html  <--- find images here!

6. Statue of Liberty live cam <--- find images here!

--Weather Journal Rubric--

Helpful weather signs and symbols:

Renewable Resources Science Article

Follow these simple steps to make an A!
1) Summarize the article in 5-7 sentences (i.e. What is the article about?)
2) How does this affect us? (1 sentence min.)
3) Why is this important? (1 sentence min.)
4) How is this science related? (1 sentence min.)
5) Pick a science word and write its definition.  Use a dictionary or www.dictionary.com 
6) Draw a picture!
7) Make sure to include your source.  i.e. Where did you get your information from?  website url, magazine title and date, newspaper title and date 

Choose ONE of the articles to read below, read it, then follow the rubric for composing a science article: 

1. Types of renewable energy

https://newsela.com/read/natgeo-renewable-energy/id/2000002211/?collection_id=339&search_id=8cc68073-78d0-4e11-997c-95c3640f88c9

2. How Things Work: Solar cells

https://newsela.com/read/lib-everyday-products-solar-cell/id/36830/

3. Issue Overview: Solar energy

https://newsela.com/read/overview-solar-energy/id/21122/

4. Ten interesting things about energy

https://newsela.com/read/elem-sci-energy-facts/id/28499/

5. How human waste could power global agriculture

http://geographical.co.uk/places/cities/item/2972-human-wastewater

6. Eight exciting energy alternatives for the future

https://www.power-technology.com/features/energy-alternatives/

7. Consumer Reports Survey Finds Most Americans Want More Renewable Energy

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/11/05/consumer-reports-survey-finds-most-americans-want-more-renewable-energy/

8. Generating energy from the wind

https://newsela.com/read/natgeo-wind-energy/id/49406/?collection_id=339&search_id=11a53302-581c-4166-958f-082774fe3c7c

Science Article - Nonrenewable Resources

Follow these simple steps to make an A!
1) Summarize the article in 5-7 sentences (i.e. What is the article about?)
2) How does this affect us? (1 sentence min.)
3) Why is this important? (1 sentence min.)
4) How is this science related? (1 sentence min.)
5) Pick a science word and write its definition.  Use a dictionary or www.dictionary.com 
6) Draw a picture!
7) Make sure to include your source.  i.e. Where did you get your information from?  website url, magazine title and date, newspaper title and date 

1. Fossil fuels power the modern world, but they also pollute and warm it

https://newsela.com/read/lib-fossil-fuels/id/32407/

2. The effects of air pollution
https://newsela.com/read/lib-air-pollution/id/42356/

3. Issue Overview: Confronting coal

https://newsela.com/read/overview-confronting-coal/id/21009/

4. Issue Overview: Keystone pipeline and the environment

https://newsela.com/read/overview-oil-sands-keystone-pipeline-environment/id/24148/

5. 25 years later, Exxon Valdez oil spill lingers

https://newsela.com/read/exxonvaldez-anniversary/id/3193/

6. Explainer: Where fossil fuels come from

 https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/explainer-where-fossil-fuels-come

7. Nonrenewable energy

https://newsela.com/read/natgeo-non-renewable-resources/id/2000002214/

Science Article - Introduction to Energy

 Science Articles  Read a science based article.  Learn how Science is happening in our daily lives and how it relates to you. You can get your information from a newspaper, magazine or from the internet. 

It should be handwritten NEATLY or typed and uploaded to Google Classroom. 

 Follow these simple steps to make an A!
1) Summarize the article in 5-7 sentences (i.e. What is the article about?)
2) How does this affect us? (1 sentence min.)
3) Why is this important? (1 sentence min.)
4) How is this science related? (1 sentence min.)
5) Pick a science word and write its definition.  Use a dictionary or www.dictionary.com
6) Draw a picture!
7) Make sure to include your source.  i.e. Where did you get your information from?  website url, magazine title and date, newspaper title and date

1. Types of Energy

 

2.  Explaining energy transfer and transformation

3.  Energy transformations

4.  Ten interesting things about energy

5.  An explanation of the two types of energy: potential and kinetic