Students will drop a small weight attached to a string, once without a parachute and once with a parachute and compare how fast each falls.
Students will investigate waves through a series of activities. They will differentiate compressional, surface and transverse waves and how each of these waves acts during an earthquake. Students will also explore how a seismograph works and practice locating and plotting earthquake epicenters. Then, students will study liquefaction and relate it to damage due to earthquake waves.
Students will understand that electrons are the things that make electricity work, name and define the two basic kinds of electricity as static and current, compare conductors and insulators, and construct a battery to show electrical flow.
Students will experiment with simple materials to demonstrate basic electrostatic concepts.
Students will identify two types of charges and will observe the charging of various objects by friction, conduction, and induction.
Students will gain an understanding about energy and changes of state, collect and graph temperature data, and analyze the data.
Students define the term "equilibrium" through mechanical, chemical, and phsyical examples of equilibria.
Students will learn how temperature is related to evaporation. Students will compare how much heat is required for various substances to evaporate by measuring how much the surrounding temperature decreases.
Students explain and compare the effects of series and parallel circuits on bulb brightness, relating the phenomena to the potential differences, current, and resistances throughout the respective circuits.
Students observe and experiment with visual after images, observe white light and its component color spectrum,and learn about the basic parts of the eye and how the eye works.
Students will: view the spectra of various elements with and without a spectroscope; understand that the color and spectral lines are determined by the electron configuration of each element; understand that the electrons emit photons after being energized in some way and that these photons are detected as visible light; view the colors emitted by various metallic salts as they are put into a bunsen burner flame; identify two unknown compounds containing some of these metals.
Students study the effects of friction in a simple mechanical system.
Students will demonstrate a greater understanding of friction by cooperatively experiencing and describing a range of phenomena involving friction. Students will understand the term "static friction" and the ratio of friction and weight as it relates to moving an object at rest.
Students will identify, classify, and observe common household substances as an acid, base or neither.
Students will define, give examples of, and differentiate between potential and kinetic energy.
Students will be introduced to the colon and the relationship it has with the body. Students will learn the process of digestion, the process of the colon, and why fiber is necessary for a healthy diet and a healthy colon.
Students will gain knowledge of heat, participate in hands-on activities, and learn various vocabulary words associated with heat.
The objectives for this lesson are: describe how the average kinetic energy of matter is measured; distinguish between heat and temperature, and calculate a change in substance from one state to another; understand the value of precise data for use in a comparative study; demonstrate that a colored surface will absorb more heat from a source of light than a white surface; explain how instruments detect and measure changes in heat and temperature; identify the ways in which heat is transferred; investigate the absorption of heat energy by matter; analyze data and establish a relationship between factors involved. Students will rotate through six discovery stations.
Students demonstrate that sound moves differently through different states of matter.
Students are introduced to pH levels using common household materials. One of the tests will involve testing the pH level of a soil sample. The final culminating activity will be for the students to find a plant and determine what the best soil conditions would be for the plant.