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Science
To the right are short instructional videos associated with your selected skill. No Certificates can be earned upon completing these videos.
Living Things and Their Structures
Students go on an observational walk and look for living things. They will take notes of the living things they see and identify the structures they use to help them survive in their environment.
*Note: SLSO is now known as Lumio and has even more features than before!
Structures and Behaviors of Plants and Animals
The teacher will begin with a “Shout It Out” activity for students to identify the different traits plants and animals need to survive. Once students understand the basic needs of life, they will create and label a Venn diagram; one side for plants and the other side for animals. Students will then look at a series of pictures and write down similarities and differences of the characteristics of each plant and animal on the Venn diagrams they have created. As an extension, the teacher will divide the class into teams to talk about the story of the "Three Little Pigs" and how their behaviors (building different types of houses) affected their survival. The teams of students will then create a short story that features adaptations.
Engineering an Obstacle Course
Students will plan and create an obstacle course using household and outdoor materials. They will test their designs and share their findings in a discussion inside of Google Classroom and respond to other students.
Impact of Humans on the Surrounding Environment
Have your students use the Google Science Journal app to investigate how humans are impacting their surrounding environment.
Earth's Spheres Digital Dioramas
Help your students learn about Earth's spheres using Edpuzzle. Then they'll use what they've learned to create virtual dioramas of Earth's spheres in Google Jamboard.
To review the atomic structure of atoms and how this affects their ability to combine in chemical reactions, this lesson allows students to draw their structure using cloned objects and consult several Periodic Table resources.
*Note: SLSO is now known as Lumio and has even more features than before!
Makey Makey - Insulators and Conductors
What types of materials are conductive? Join me as I demonstrate a lesson using our Makey Makey board as students explore the concept of insulators and conductors.
Let's build a bridge for Sphero to drive over! Students will be challenged to create a bridge using a variety of classroom or household materials. Then, students will program Sphero to drive over the bridge. Students will be challenged to think about different types of bridges, incorporate multiple design elements, and hold the weight of the Sphero.
Sphero RVR - Color Walk Endangered Animals
Using the color sensor, students will program the RVR to read a list of words related to the Endangered Animals category and associated to each specific color tile. They will use the Drive tool in Sphero EDU and stop over each color. This also uses speech blocks as well as the "On Color" event block.
Sphero RVR - Animal Sounds Walk
Students work in pairs. One uses starts the program and the other guesses the animal. Using programming blocks, the RVR will ask "Which animal is this?" and use a sound block. If the driver student gets it wrong, the other student takes over and the RVR turns into a random heading and moves on. Also uses a Loop control block.
