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Learn the science that governs collisions between objects

Students will explore how their bodies use food as a source of energy, and discover that the energy stored in food comes from the sun. Prior to this lesson, students need to know that animals need food to grow and live.

Students will explore the science of weathering and erosion to understand how Earth’s surface changes. They will discover what happens during weathering, and the different ways this material is moved through erosion.

Learn characteristics of the moon such as relative size and surface features. Then demonstrate how the moon’s phases are a result of its orbit around the Earth.

Students will learn about the apparent motion of the Earth, sun, stars, and planets by studying observable patterns.

The focus of this lesson is on the appearance of stars based on their size and distance from Earth. Central to this concept is recognizing our sun is a star as well. Students begin to comprehend the vast scale of the universe by comparing the brightness and sizes of stars in the night sky to our sun.

The Earth is constantly changing. To better understand the processes that change it we can visualize Earth as four interacting systems—the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere. Humans are part of the biosphere, but have the ability to impact all of Earth’s spheres in both positive and negative ways.

Learn about the practices of science, what science is, different fields in science, and how to think like a scientist. Students will determine how they use science and engineering practices when they conduct a test of their team design in the Egg Drop Challenge. Prior to this, students should be able to ask questions of each other about what they read and observe, and the conclusions they draw from scientific investigations.

In this lesson students learn about what fossils are, how they form, and what we can learn from them. The also focus on what it means for a plant or animal to be extinct.

In this lesson students will explore their own landscape for evidence to determine whether it has changed or remained the same over time. Students observe a similar investigation in another location, and then use local resources to learn more about where they live.

In this activity students observe a variety of plant and animal structures, and explore how those structures help them survive. Students also learn how plant and animal structures with useful functions have inspired human engineering.

Students observe animals in person and through video to explore different types of group behavior and different animal group sizes. Students use observations as evidence to support scientific arguments about group behaviors.

Animals, including humans, have adaptations or characteristics that help them to obtain food, protect themselves, and reproduce to help them survive. Different animals have different types of adaptations that serve different purposes.

In this activity students recognize that offspring don’t all look alike, and variation can also be observed between offspring and their parents. They learn that traits are passed from parents to offspring and that offspring have different traits from each other. Also some traits are caused by the environment.

All plants and animals are born, grow, change, reproduce, and die over time. Together all these stages form a life cycle. In this lesson students study the life cycles of several different plants and animals.

In this video, students explore interactions between organisms and their environment. Specifically they study food chains and how those food chains connect to form webs. They explore the roles of different plants, animals, and other organisms in population control and recycling.

In this activity students learn that an organisms can only survive in an ecosystem where its needs are met. They explore a variety of different ecosystems and study the interaction between living things and non-living things, such as soil, water, and air. They also think about changes in ecosystems and the impacts they have on living things.