Science

Energy Websquest: Paradise Island

Part 1: Renewable Energy information

Part 2: Paradise Island Project

THE MOON

Below are some resources you can use to collect information about the moon and its phases. These resources will help you complete the webquest activity.

Song - Mr. Parr's Phases of the Moon

Website - Moon Phases

Video - Moon clip

Website - Lunar Glossary

Song - Mr. Lee's Moon Phases Song

Song - Moon Phases Song

Website - Star Date - Moon Calendar

Website - Lunar Phases

Website - Phases of the Moon

Website - Moon Phases II

WEATHERING, EROSION, DEPOSITION

Below are some resources you can use to collect information about weathering, erosion, and deposition. These resources will help you complete the vocabulary sorting task.

Video - http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/rocks-minerals-landforms/weathering-and-erosion.htm

Website - http://www.ducksters.com/science/earth_science/erosion.php

Website - http://www.onegeology.org/extra/kids/earthprocesses/weathering.html

Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exS9gFXgib0

Website - http://www.ehow.com/info_8512606_deposition-kids.html

We will rock you!

Once a rock, always a rock? Today you will answer this question by researching types of rocks as well as the processes involved in rock formation. Below are some resources you can use to collect information about rocks and the rock cycle. These resources will help you research the characteristics of each type of rock as well as the way that the rocks are formed. 

http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/types.html 

http://www.kidsloverocks.com/html/types_of_rocks.html

http://www.geography4kids.com/files/earth_rocktypes.html

http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/diagram.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE3jR_RhxO4

Are volcanoes advantageous or catastrophic to 

humans and the Earth?

Below are some resources you can use to collect information about volcanoes. These resources will help you research both sides to this question.

Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzwwrptvqlY

Website - http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/what-are-some-good-things-volcanoes-do

Website - http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-volcano.htm

Website - http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/content/kids/en_US/explore/science/volcano/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpNWLCmXyTE&feature=relmfu

Geology

Our Second planner focuses on the study of the earth. In this unit, we will explore the layers of the earth, plate tectonics, volcanoes, earthquakes, rocks, minerals, and fossils. Our guiding question for this unit is-Earth processes: advantageous or catastrophic? 

Plate Tectonics: Whistle

Pangaea Moving Farther Apart!

Crust and Mantle: to the beat of Black and Yellow

Layers of the Earth

Scientific Method

Our first MYP planner focuses on students deconstructing the steps that make up the scientific method. In this unit students will be able to not only list the steps in the scientific method but perform experiments following the steps.