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 Students plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.

 Students use biomimicry to design solutions to human problems.  They brainstorm plans for using ideas from nature to design protective gear for riding a bicycle, skateboard, or some other equipment.

 Students practice the skill of communication through speaking, drawing and writing about teddy bears. 

5 activities- 36 pages

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to be interactive as the teacher models the structures of the hand and children act them out.

Students collect, display, and explain  data through a story, a survey and a random collection of colored squares. 

Use this  PowerPoint presentation to introduce collecting data. Each page has a question to answer that practices different ways to show data. Teaching Tips are included in the notes section. 

Students lean to classify with rocks, then move to make treasure chests of objects they collect and classify with a binary system, a Venn diagram, and a graph.Students write journal entries as if they were explorers finding treasure.

Students use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.

 Use the steps and application of the processes of inquiry in 40 activities and investigations that include Life, Earth, and Physical Science content- seeds, matter and dinosaurs.