Students will use knowledge of adaptations to compare the structures and functions of plants. These likenesses are passed down between parent plants and their offspring
In this lesson students will explore the physical characteristics of insects and how they camouflage themselves to avoid being eaten by predators.
Students will explore the outdoor classroom in pairs looking for evidence of animal life and imagining what types of animals might live in and around the area.
Students will explore the outdoor classroom in pairs looking for evidence of animal life and imagining what types of animals might live in, and survive in, the outdoor classroom area.
The students will use their knowledge of decimals and place value to compare decimals using greater than less than and equal to symbols.
Students will explore the ways that plants get recycled into soil/food for other plants.
In this lesson, students will use a square foot gardening planting chart (provided) to calculate the number of crops they can plant within a specific area.
In this lesson, students will use an existing compost pile to make observations that will help them better understand the decomposition process.
Students will use their knowledge of summarizing data sets with multiple categories using a dot plot.
Students know that there are recognizable patterns on earth. To demonstrate the rotation of earth, students will track the shadows on a sundial throughout the day.
Students will use knowledge of aquatic and terrestrial environments to identify fossils and predict environmental changes over time.
Students will explore the outdoor classroom for natural examples of heat transfer through conduction, convection, and radiation.
Students use a hurricane tracking map to measure the distance from a specific latitude and longitude location of the eye of a hurricane to a city. Then they use the map's scale factor to convert the distance to miles. They also apply the distance formula by creating an x-y coordinate plane on the map. Students are challenged to analyze what data might be used by computer science engineers to write code that generates hurricane tracking models. Then students analyze a MATLAB® computer code that uses the distance formula repetitively to generate a table of data that tracks a hurricane at specific time intervals. Students come to realize that using a computer program to generate the calculations (instead of by hand) is very advantageous for a dynamic situation like tracking storm movements. Their inspection of some MATLAB code helps them understand how it communicates what to do using mathematical formulas, logical instructions and repeated tasks. They also conclude that the example program is too simplistic to really be a useful tool; useful computer model tools must necessarily be much more complex.
Students investigate how living and non- living elements interact with one another in an ecosystem by observing interactions in the garden.
This course focuses on introducing the language, libraries, tools and concepts of Javaᵀᴹ. The course is specifically targeted at students who intend to take 6.170 in the following term and feel they would struggle because they lack the necessary background. Topics include: Object-oriented programming, primitives, arrays, objects, inheritance, interfaces, polymorphism, hashing, data structures, collections, nested classes, floating point precision, defensive programming, and depth-first search algorithm.
In this lesson the students will observe and record properties of rocks based on properties such as size, weight, shape, color or texture.
In this lesson, students will explain their observations and understanding of various plant's external parts and how they help the plant survive in its environment.
Students will make it a regular practice to record weather data using thermometers, wind vanes and rain gauges.
Students will use their knowledge of earth's natural resources to identify resources in the outdoor classroom and classify these resources as either renewable or non-renewable.
Students will prepare the vegetable beds for planting exploring how simple and compound machines work.