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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.  They make conceptual models by drawing and writing about  the full life cycle of  mealworms.

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 and conduct an investigation to discover how distance affects the strength of a magnetic force field.

Use these 9 activities to engage your students in using the processes of inquiry to discover properties of objects and materials with any items that you determine are easily available, accessible, and appropriate. 

33 hands-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

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