7.15 Theories, Systems, and Forces

· Recognize properties of rocks and soils, (i.e. texture, color, and ability to retain water).

· Knows that rocks come in many sizes. · Explore ways the earth changes over time (e.g. erosion, weathering, fossilization (e.g. volcanoes, earthquakes, waves, wind, water, ice).

· Explore the relationships between earth systems and identifies repeating patterns (e.g. seasons, time, weather, etc.).

· Identify and discuss the four seasons.

· Tell time to the minute using analog and digital clocks.

· Understand that there are more stars in the sky than one can easily count, but they are not scattered evenly and are not all the same brightness or color.

· Understand that the sun can be seen only in daytime, but the moon can be seen sometimes at night and sometimes during the day; the sun, moon and stars all appear to move slowly across the sky.

· Know that the moon looks a little different every day, but looks the same again about every four weeks.

· Identify and use experiments and models to record evidence of change over time (e.g. erosion, weathering, fossilization).

· Identify and record patterns and forces that shape the earth (e.g. geological, atmospheric).

· Identify and record the interrelated parts of earth systems (seasons, time, weather, etc.)

· Apply knowledge of time to real life situations (e.g. managing own time, plan and manage a schedule for an investigation).

· Identify and explain relationships within our solar system to the universe (e.g. nine planets, order from sun, and movement of planets in relationship to the sun and moon; calendar).

· Demonstrate understanding of objects in the sky, such as sun, moon, planets, and other objects that can be observed and described; and the importance of the sun to provide the light and heat necessary for survival.

· Understand that things on or near the earth are pulled toward it by the Earth's gravity.

· Identify, record, and model evidence of change over time; past, present and future prediction (e.g. earth’s history, biological, geological, erosion, fossil evidence).

· Identify evidence of, model, and explain the patterns and forces that shape the earth (e.g. atmospheric, geological).

· Identify, record, model, and explain the interrelated parts and connections between earth systems (e.g. crustal plates and land forms, atmosphere, water cycle, oceans, weather and climate).

· Demonstrate independent time management skills.

· Recognize human place in time in terms of evolution, historical events, geologic time.

· Identify, record, model, and explain the relationship of our solar system to the universe such as the predictable motion of planets, moon, and other objects in the solar system (e.g. day, year, season, sun, starts, galaxies, gravity, energy, orbits, planet characteristics, moon phases, and eclipses; and the role of the sun as the major source of energy for phenomena on the earth’s surface).

7.15 Theories, Systems, and Forces

· Understand that the universe contains billions of galaxies each with billions of starts.

7.15

Seasons/cycles

Geology

Weather

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This may vary from team to team

Class meeting

Calendar

Weather

Field Trips (Shelburne Farms)

Geology

Water cycle

Recycling

Flight

Mysteries

Solar system

Ecology

Predictions/hypothesis about future state of biosphere