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This is a short study of “static electricity”. There are 6 journal activities and recording sheets for students.  Many activities look like magic as charged materials move without touching.

Students define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying their scientific ideas about magnets. Students act as engineers, put their knowledge to work, and solve the problem with one or more magnets.

Students plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Students  Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

Students develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.  As they study the full life cycle of Tenebrio Molitor, also known as the mealworm, they make conceptual models by drawing and writing.

Students plan and conduct an investigation collaboratively to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence, using fair tests in which variables are controlled and the number of trials considered. 

Students make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard- wind and water.

Students ask questions to determine the cause and effect relationships when there are magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other by conducting 3 hands on activities 

Students place a compass around a bar magnet to “see” the invisible force field around a bar magnet.

In the Individual assessment, students conduct an investigation to find out how distance affects the strength of a magnetic force field.

33 developmentally appropriate hand-on performance assessments. observing, communicating, estimating, measuring, collecting data, classifying, inferring, predicting, making models, interpreting data, making graphs, hypothesizing, defining operationally, controlling variables, and investigating