- HOW THE WORLD WORKS -
An inquiry into the natural world and its laws; the interaction between the natural world (physical and biological) and human societies; how humans use their understanding of scientific principles; the impact of scientific and technological advances on society and on the environment.
Central IdeaLife is influenced by natural events which can be observed, measured and explained.
Lines of Inquiry
ConceptsChange, Causation, Connection
Related concepts: seasons, geography, systems (water cycle, weather), natural disaster (extreme weather), climate change. |
Teachers Questions
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Vocab List
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Assessment 1Summative TaskStudents make a 5-day Weather Journal. They observe the weather 3 times a day. (teacher provides the chart)
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Assessment 2Students are going to move to a country. They will describe the seasons and how living things (plants, animals, people) adapt there. Then explain how they will be able to adapt to that place.
ICT: Photo story or PowerPoint (living things, environments and adaptation) Criteria:
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- Weather and Seasons -
WHAT CREATES SEASONS..?
Seasons are created by two very important events:
The Sun never changes. So, acting together, these two movements create variations in temperature, weather, and in the seasons. Because seasons are based on the rotation of the planet around the sun, the seasons change at the same time every year, even though the two halves of the planet experience opposite seasons! |
- World's Climate -
WHAT IS CLIMATE..?
Climate is the average weather in a place over many years. While the weather can change in just a few hours, climate takes hundreds, thousands, even millions of years to change. Climate is usually defined as the weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.
Climate is the average weather in a place over many years. While the weather can change in just a few hours, climate takes hundreds, thousands, even millions of years to change. Climate is usually defined as the weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.
Watch and Learn...
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Water Cycle
Earth has a limited amount of water. So, that water keeps going around. We call it the water cycle.
The water cycle describes how Earth's water is not only always changing forms, between liquid (rain), solid (ice), and gas (vapor), but also moving on, above, and in the Earth.
There are THREE phases of water cycle. They are:
The water cycle describes how Earth's water is not only always changing forms, between liquid (rain), solid (ice), and gas (vapor), but also moving on, above, and in the Earth.
There are THREE phases of water cycle. They are:
- Evaporation -- is when the sun heats up water in rivers, lakes or the ocean. Then turns it into water vapor or steam.
- Condensation -- is when water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into water to form clouds.
- Precipitation -- occurs when so much water has condensed that the air can't hold it anymore. This is how we get rain or snow.
WATER CYCLE VIDEO
WATER CYCLE DIAGRAM