Emily Loughead

erealoughead@gmail.com

• Pushes and pulls can have different strengths and directions.

• Pushing or pulling on an object can change the speed or direction of its motion and can start or stop it.

• When objects touch or collide, they push on one another and can change motion.

• A situation that people want to change or create can be approached as a problem to be solved through engineering. Such problems may have many acceptable solutions.

• Patterns of the motion of the sun, moon, and stars in the sky can be observed, described, and predicted.

• Seasonal patterns of sunrise and sunset can be observed, described, and predicted.

• Make observations (firsthand or from media) to collect data that can be used to make comparisons.

• All organisms have external parts. Different animals use their body parts in different ways to see, hear, grasp objects, protect themselves, move from place to place, and seek, find, and take in food, water and air.

• Plants also have different parts (roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits) that help them survive and grow.

• Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

• Living things need water, air, and resources from the land, and they live in places that have the things they need.

• Humans use natural resources for everything they do.

• Some kinds of severe weather are more likely than others in a given region.

• Weather scientists forecast severe weather so that the communities can prepare for and respond to these events.

• Plants depend on water and light to grow.

• Plants depend on animals for pollination or to move their seeds around.

• Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.

• Different kinds of matter exist and many of them can be either solid or liquid, depending on temperature. Matter can be described and classified by its observable properties.

• Heating or cooling a substance may cause changes that can be observed. Sometimes these changes are reversible, and sometimes they are not.

• I can describe a living and non-living thing.

• I can compare living and non-living things in my community/environment/park.

• I can observe plants and animals, draw what I see and share my thinking.

• I can talk about the weather I see outside.

• I can help take care of the earth (recycling, tidying up, saving water etc.)