Making Fossils

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Fossils Sedimentary Rock Wind and water break and wear pieces off of rocks. Water and wind also move small pieces of rocks and minerals. When these pieces get into a body of water they settle at the bottom. As time passes, these pieces are compressed by the weight of more…
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Wind and Ocean Currents

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Heating the Earth The Earth is heated by the Electromagnetic Radiation the Sun emits. The Earth is not heated uniformly, however. For example, the Equator gets more direct radiation from the sun than the poles all times of the year, and so the poles are cooler. The tilt of the…
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Calendars

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Many different calendars in in use today. They are based on observations ancient people made about the world around them. Some are based on the movement of the Moon around the Earth, some are based on the movement of Earth around the Sun, and some are based on the life…
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Tides and The Moon

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This week's lesson covers the moon's affect on Earth as it revolves around it. Gravity and Mass All objects exert the force of gravity on one another. Objects with greater mass exert more force than objects with a lesser mass. I reviewed gravity and mass at this point. When the…
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Days and Seasons

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I'm back to teaching science again! This term's topic is Earth and Space. I am going to be doing activities with kids in grade 4 and 1. I am reviewing some more advanced topics with the year 4 kids, because I taught them last year when the topics were forces…
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Forces and Heat Game

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This is the game we played at the end of our units on forces and heat. You can find all the lessons for this by following the STEAM tab at the top of the page. I used pictures in these questions to help the kids remember what we learned about…
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Earth’s Changes

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This is the last topic in our unit on heat.  I'm going to do a review game that covers topics based on forces from last term and heat from this term in two weeks. I've already covered seasons in a previous post. This class was about long term changes in…
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Cells and the Food Chain

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This article contains affiliate links. In this class I went through how energy from the sun is involved in the food chain. I needed to go over what cells are since I hadn't done that yet. I had the kids make plant cells at the end of class because we…
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