Science the Week of Oct 25- Oct 29

This week in Science:

4th graders- Solid Earth: We are learning how weathering and erosion can affect rocks on our planet. We will also be learning about how changes in the rocks can change the topography.

5th graders- Water Planet: This week we are learning about pressure in the atmosphere and how that pressure is related to changes in the weather. We will also be starting to learn what weather is and important weather vocabulary.

Science the Week of Oct 18- Oct 22

This week in Science:

4th graders- Solid Earth: We are finishing up our lesson about the rock cycle by playing the rock cycle game. We will start learning about how weathering and erosion affects rocks.

5th graders- Water Planet: We are spending the week learning how the sun heats our planet and the drastic temperature change we can see whither in the shade or in the sun.

Science the Week of Oct 4- Oct 8

This week in Science:

4th graders- Solid Earth: This week we are using the minerals property table we learned about last week to help us identify new minerals. We are completing hardness tests, scratch tests, and looking at the color and luster to help us identify each new mineral.

5th graders- Water Planet: We are learning all about water! We are first learning about how much and what kind of water is on our planet and we will then learn all about the water cycle and see how water is moved throughout the planet. We will be using the wireless cart to visit interactive water cycle websites on this blog.

Science the Week of Sept 27-Oct 1

4th graders- Solid Earth: This week we are learning how to identify minerals using the mineral properties table and how rocks are made of many minerals. We will use different tools to help us learn each category on the mineral properties table.

5th graders- Water Planet: We will finish learning about evaporation and move onto condensation. We will also make a math connection while learning about surface area and how surface area can change the evaporation rate.

Science The Week of Sept 20-24

4th graders- Solid Earth: We will finish up our scratch test with minerals and identify them using the minerals property table and the information we have gained from the scratch test. We will then use vinegar to test if a particular mineral is found in several different rocks

5th graders- Water Planet: We are wrapping up our lesson about the solar system and starting a new lesson about evaporation. Students will learn what evaporation is and will get the opportunity to see it first hand in our own evaporation experiment.


Don't forget!

Coastal Cleanup Day is Saturday September 25, 2010

This is a great yearly event that helps keep our beautiful beaches clean and prevents pollution from entering our waters and hurting marine life and our marine ecosystem.
Events will be taking place all over the bay area.

Here is Berkeley there is a cleanup at Shorebird Park Nature Center. Please register first, so staff will know how many supplies to bring. You can register at www.cityofberkeley.info/marina

For more information about Coastal Cleanup Day, please check out there website at http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/ccd.html

*My Science students receive extra credit for attending!!*

Coastal Cleanup Day

Coastal Cleanup Day is Saturday September 25, 2010

This is a great yearly event that helps keep our beautiful beaches clean and prevents pollution from entering our waters and hurting marine life and our marine ecosystem.
Events will be taking place all over the bay area.

Here is Berkeley there is a cleanup at Shorebird Park Nature Center. Please register first, so staff will know how many supplies to bring. You can register at www.cityofberkeley.info/marina

For more information about Coastal Cleanup Day, please check out there website at http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/ccd.html

*My Science students receive extra credit for attending!!*

Science The Week of Sept 13-17

4th graders- Solid Earth: We are continuing to learn about making observations and use important observation tools that we will use throughout the year. We will also start to learn about minerals, including the different types of minerals and how they form rocks.

5th graders- Water Planet: We are continuing to learn about the solar system and how we classify the different planets. We will also spend some time learning what gravity is and how it works. We will end the week starting a new investigation where we will learn about evaporation.