Welcome from Mrs. Arcand !
News
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Resources
Explore these websites to learn more about:
Ecosystems and environmental issues
www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm
Pacific Garbage Patch
This website has information about alternative energy.
Science News Sites
www.sciencenewsforkids.org/
Learn about the universe with this interactive site.
Constellations with myth references 3 min
Natural Resources management (thank you Ms. Adrianne's youth group!)
Syllabus
SCIENCE - Broad Rock Middle School utilizes three inquiry based GEMS-NET kits as well as teacher-created units of study. The mission of GEMS-NET is to prepare all students to be scientifically literate, enabling them to meet the challenges of an expanding body of knowledge within an increasingly technologically complex and changing global society.
Ecosystems is a unit to help students understand the web of relationships that links organisms to one another and to their natural environment. By constructing, observing, discussing, and reading about both land and water ecosystems in this unit, students can develop a growing sensitivity to living things and what they need to survive.
Magnets and Motors is a unit that mirrors the historical development of our understanding and use of magnetism, electricity, and electromagnetism. Topics include: magnets and compasses, electricity from batteries, electromagnetism (electromagnets, motors, and generators).
Environmental Issues is not a Gems-Net kit. This unit gives the students background knowledge about the environmental challenges we face today. The students learn about the causes, effects and solutions of current environmental issues such as: acid rain, global warming, watershed and water pollution, deforestation, droughts, and overflowing landfills. As a culminating project one topic is chosen and the student's mission is to inform others of the problem and what actions can be taken by everyone in an effort to solve the problem.
Measuring Time is a unit on the science and technology of timekeeping. It is divided into two sections: "Keeping Time with the Sun and the Moon" in which students observe the apparent motion of the sun and the recurring cycle of the moon’s phases, and "Investigating Invented Clocks" in which students plan and conduct experiments with some of the principal timekeeping devices developed through the ages, from water clocks to mechanical escapements.
Astronomy is the unit of study and it is not a Gems-Net kit. The students use models to describe the relative motion/position of the Earth, sun and moon and to explain night/day, seasons, year and tides as a result of the regular and predictable motions of the Earth, sun, and moon. The year blasts to a close as we enter outerspace with the study of asteroids, comets and meteoroids.
SCIENCE GRADE SPAN EXPECTATION (GSE) TARGETS COVERED IN GRADE 6
LIFE SCIENCE 1- INQUIRY+SYSTEMS & ENERGY-1 (LS1-1)
Using data and observations about the biodiversity of an ecosystem make predictions or draw conclusions about how the diversity contributes to the stability of the ecosystem. (DOK 3)
LIFE SCIENCE 2-INQUIRY+SYSTEMS & ENERGY-5 (LS2-5)
Using data and observations, predict outcomes when abiotic/biotic factors are changed in an ecosystem. (DOK 2)
LIFE SCIENCE 2-SYSTEMS & ENERGY-6 (LS2-6)
Given a scenario trace the flow of energy through an ecosystem, beginning with the sun, through organisms in the food web, and into the environment (includes photosynthesis and respiration). (DOK 2)
LIFE SCIENCE 2-SYSTEMS & ENERGY -7 (LS2-7)
Given an ecosystem, trace how matter cycles among and between organisms and the physical environment (includes water, oxygen, food web, decomposition).
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE 1-SYSTEMS & ENERGY-2 (ESS1-2)
Explain the processes that cause the cycling of water into and out of the atmosphere and their connections to our planet’s weather. (DOK 2)
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE 1-MODELS & SCALES-6 (ESS1-6)
Compare and contrast planets based on data provided about size, composition, location, orbital movement, atmosphere, or surface features (includes moons). (DOK 2)
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE 1-NATURE OF SCIENCE-7 (ESS1-7)
Explain how technological advances have allowed scientists to re-evaluate or extend existing ideas about the solar system.
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE 1-SYSTEMS & ENERGY + PATTERNS OF CHANGE-8 (ESS1-8)
Explain temporal or positional relationships between or among the Earth, sun and moon (e.g. night/day, seasons, year, tides) or how gravitational force affects objects in the solar system (e.g. moons, tides, orbits satellites) (DOK 3).
PHYSICAL SCIENCE-SYSTEMS & ENERGY + PATTERNS OF CHANGE-6
Given a real world example, show that within a system, energy transforms from one form to another (ie. chemical, heat, electrical, gravitational, light, sound, mechanical). (DOK 3)
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