Week 16 Grade 3 June 8-12

Don't forget the Science Time for 3rd grade on WEDNESDAY. You can click on this link to join the Google Meet session at any time from 3:00 to 4:00 and ask questions about this week's Science news or your assignments.

This is the last Science assignment for the year. Next week is the last week of school. I have had you working on structure and function for the last few weeks. Thinking about how something is built and why it works the way it does is hard. We can learn so much about living things and the world around us by questioning structure and function.

This last week I would like you to select a living thing - plant or animal- and think about how it's built and why it's built that way. Select something that is very unusual so that you can try to explain why it is so different. 

As examples, think about a Venus flytrap, a plant that eats animals. How different than a normal plant!



Or think about a polar bear, all the special things about it like thick blubber, white hair, huge size.

Please write, in your own words, a description of your living thing and tell me about it's structure and what that structure does to help your plant or animal live.

Week 16 Grade 4 June 8-12

Don't forget the Science Time for 4th grade on TUESDAY. You can click on this link to join the Google Meet session at any time from 3:00 to 4:00 and ask questions about this week's Science news or your assignments.

This is the last Science assignment for the year. Next week is the last week of school. I have had you working on structure and function for the last few weeks. Thinking about how something is built and why it works the way it does is hard. We can learn so much about living things and the world around us by questioning structure and function.

This last week I would like you to select a living thing - plant or animal- and think about how it's built and why it's built that way. Select something that is very unusual so that you can try to explain why it is so different. 

As examples, think about a Venus flytrap, a plant that eats animals. How different than a normal plant!



Or think about a polar bear, all the special things about it like thick blubber, white hair, huge size.


Please write, in your own words, a description of your living thing and tell me about it's structure and what that structure does to help your plant or animal live.

Week 16 Grade 5 June 8-12

Don't forget Monday's 5th Grade Science time at 3:00 (Italian time) - this is time for questions about Science News or your Science assignments. Here's the Google Meet link.

This is the last Science assignment for the year. Next week is the last week of school. I have had you working on structure and function for the last few weeks. Thinking about how something is built and why it works the way it does is hard. We can learn so much about living things and the world around us by questioning structure and function.

This last week I would like you to select a living thing - plant or animal- and think about how it's built and why it's built that way. Select something that is very unusual so that you can try to explain why it is so different. 

As examples, think about a Venus flytrap, a plant that eats animals. How different than a normal plant!





Or think about a polar bear, all the special things about it like thick blubber, white hair, huge size.

Please write, in your own words, a description of your living thing and tell me about it's structure and what that structure does to help your plant or animal live.

Week 15 Grade 5 Jun 3-5

For your assignment this week, I would like you to report on something in the science news this week. Please tell me in your own words about one thing that is happening in the world of science. I have some suggestions if you can't find something of your own:

• The hurricane heading for Mumbai India called Nisarga. This hurricane is historic for some reason, do you know why? Link to story
• The tropical storm Cristobal in the Gulf of Mexico that just started yesterday. Where is it headed? Link to story
• The historic space flight of the SpaceX Demo 2 mission to the International Space Station. Why was it historic? What's next? Link to story
• The latest on the race to find a vaccine for the coronavirus. Why does it take so long to make a vaccine? Link to story
• What are earthquakes and how do they happen? What's the biggest earthquake you can find on this map and where did it happen? Link to story

Week 15 Grade 4 Jun 3-5

For your assignment this week, I would like you to report on something in the science news this week. Please tell me in your own words about one thing that is happening in the world of science. I have some suggestions if you can't find something of your own:

• The hurricane heading for Mumbai India called Nisarga. This hurricane is historic for some reason, do you know why? Link to story
• The tropical storm Cristobal in the Gulf of Mexico that just started yesterday. Where is it headed? Link to story
• The historic space flight of the SpaceX Demo 2 mission to the International Space Station. Why was it historic? What's next? Link to story
• The latest on the race to find a vaccine for the coronavirus. Why does it take so long to make a vaccine? Link to story
• What are earthquakes and how do they happen? What's the biggest earthquake you can find on this map and where did it happen? Link to story

Week 15 Grade 3 June 3 - 5

Don't forget the Science Time for 3rd grade on WEDNESDAY. You can click on this link to join the Google Meet session at any time from 3:00 to 4:00 and ask questions about this week's Science news or your assignments.

For your assignment this week, I would like you to report on something in the science news this week. Please tell me in your own words about one thing that is happening in the world of science. I have some suggestions if you can't find something of your own:

• The hurricane heading for Mumbai India called Nisarga. This hurricane is historic for some reason, do you know why? Link to story
• The tropical storm Cristobal in the Gulf of Mexico that just started yesterday. Where is it headed? Link to story
• The historic space flight of the SpaceX Demo 2 mission to the International Space Station. Why was it historic? What's next? Link to story
• The latest on the race to find a vaccine for the coronavirus. Why does it take so long to make a vaccine? Link to story
• What are earthquakes and how do they happen? What's the biggest earthquake you can find on this map and where did it happen? Link to story

Week 14 Grade 3 May 26-29

Don't forget the Science Time for 3rd grade on WEDNESDAY. You can click on this link to join the Google Meet session at any time from 3:00 to 4:00 and ask questions about this week's Science news or your assignments.

Last week I asked you to think about toothpaste, how it's made (it's structure) and what it does (it's function). I made this short video to tell you how I compared it's structure and function, please watch it first.

Now that you see how I would like you to compare structure and function, this week's assignment is to do the same thing for the human hand.

Please think about how the structure of our hands control and influence how we use our hands, what we do with our hands. Put your answers in a table just like in my video comparing structure and function for toothpaste.