Welcome to Back to School Night

20 SEPTEMBER 2011

Presentation by Kay Kim

SCIENCE:GRADES 5 AND 6

MY PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATIONMASTER OBJECTIVESCURRICULUMPROCESSTHE BIG PICTURE

MY PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

SUCESSFUL STUDENT

EFFORT

HIGH EXPECTATIONS

LOTS OF SUPPORT

MY PHILOSOPHY

RELEVENT CONTENT

EFFECTIVE PROCESS

SUCCESSFUL

CURRICULUM

SCIENCE PROCESS

LABS/EXPERIMENTS

LABS REPORTS

CONTENT RELATED NOTE TAKING/ACTIVITIES

PROJECTS/ RESEARCH

DISCUSSIONS

EMPHASIS: SCIENTIFIC METHOD

MASTER OBJECTIVES

MASTER OBJECTIVESGRADES 5 AND 6

PREPARE STUDENTS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE CURRICULUM

PREPARE STUDENTS FOR NJ STATE TESTING

INSTILL OR STRENGTHEN STUDENTS’ INTEREST IN SCIENCE

CURRICULUM

NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards

5.4 Nature and Process of Technology

5.3 Mathematical Applications

5.2 Science and Society

5.1 Scientific Processes

5.10 Environmental Studies

5.9 Astronomy and Space Science

5.8 Earth Science

5.7 Physical Science – Physics

5.6 Physical Science – Chemistry

5.5 Life Science

NJCCCS: SCIENCESTANDARD 5TH 6TH

5.1SCIENTIFIC PROCESSES

LAB REPORTS

Hands-on experiments

VARIABLES

LAB REPORTS

Hands-on experiments

INQUIRY-BASED EXPERIMENTS

5.2SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

SCIENTISTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

SCIENTISTS: HISTORICAL PERSCPECTIVE

NJCCS: SCIENCESTANDARD 5TH 6TH

5.3MATHEMATICALAPPLICATIONS

INTRO: METRIC SYSTEMDIMENSIONSMASSTABLESGRAPHS- TWO COODINATE

METRIC SYSTEMVOLUMEDENSITY

SCIENTIFIC NOTATIONSDATA ANALYSIS PROBABILITY

5.4NATURE AND PROCESS OF TECHNOLOGY

INTERNET RESEARCH

PROSCOPE

INTERNET RESEARCH

PROSCOPE

PROSCOPE: DIGITAL MICROSCOPE

NJCCCS: SCIENCESTANDARD 5TH 6TH

5.5LIFE SCIENCE

CLASSIFICATIONLIFE CYCLESARTHROPODSDISSECTION: ANNELIDS

CLASSIFICATIONDISSECTION: ARTHOPODS

CELLSSYSTEMS

5.6PHYSICAL SCIENCE:

CHEMISTRY

MIXTURESSOLUTIONSINTRO: ELEMENTSPHYSICAL PROPERTIES

PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTSATOMS AND MOLECULESCHEMICAL PROPERTIES/REACTIONSACID AND BASES

NJCCS: SCIENCESTANDARD 5TH 6TH 5.7PHYSICAL SCIENCE:

PHYSICS

SIMPLE MACHINES LEVERS AND PULLEYS

GEODESIC DOMESSURFACE TENSIONFRICTION

SOLAR CARSNEWTON’S LAWS OF MOTIONLAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS

5.8EARTH SCIENCE

EARTH’S STRUCTUREPLATE TECTONICSROCK TYPESROCK CYCLE

TOPOGRAPHYWATER CYCLEWEATHER

SOLAR CAR PROJECT

SPEED AND ACCELERATIONGEAR RATIOSPHOTONSFRICTIONALTERNATIVE ENERGYNEWTON’S LAWS OF MOTION

NJCCS: SCIENCESTANDARD 5TH 6TH 5.9ASTRONOMY AND

SPACE SCIENCE

EARTH, SUN, MOON SYSTEMPLANETSECLIPSESTARLAB

STARS- LIFE CYCLECONSTELLATIONSMOON PHASESSTARLAB

5.10ENVIRONMENTALSTUDIES

ECOSYSTEMSINTERDEPENDENCE

GREENHOUSE EFFECTGLOBAL WARMINGALTERNATIVE ENERGY

STARLAB: PORTABLE PLANETARIUM

“Somewhere, something incredible

is waiting to be known.”

Carl Sagan

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GOOD NIGHT

Presentation by Kay Kim