Life Cycle Posters and Power Point

The past 2 weeks, we have been learning about Living and Nonliving, Animal Classifications, and Life Cycles.
As a quick, and fun, assessment of student learning, I had my students create mini-posters about one of the life cycles.

Students got to choose between the frog and butterfly life cycle. After creating their posters, my little soldiers had to present their posters to the class. I was very impressed with how well they did for their first presentations.
I had some colleagues come by after school to choose their favorites. Here are the winners!

Congratulations, Soldiers!

Here is the PPT with the vocabulary from last week.
If you'd like a copy of the PPT, you can get it {HERE}!

Science Vocabulary- Natural Resources and Conservation

Our science vocabulary power point for this week! For our Fun Friday activity, we will be up-cycling old cereal boxes. It's going to be epic! :)

Science vocabulary- Flow of Matter & Energy

Here are the vocabulary terms and topics for this week! Be sure to check out the links at the bottom of the post!

Fun links to check out:

—Food Web and Food Chain activity site- http://projects.cbe.ab.ca/chinookpark/curriculum_links/Grade_Pages/grade6/Gr_6_Units/science/foodchains/food_chain.html

  Northwestern Edu.- http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/marssim/simhtml/info/whats-a-carnivore.html

—Sheppard Software- http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/animaldiet/carnivore.htm

—http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/foodchain/producersconsumers.htm

 

Awesome Videos: Thanks, Mr. Parr!

Decomposers Song

 Food Chain Song

It Starts With Producers

 

Science Vocabulary- Living and Nonliving things

We are ending Unit 1 of Common Core and this week is a preview of Unit 2's topic. During Unit 1 we worked on types of matter, separation of mixtures, and scientific tools.

Unit 2 will have us working on categorizing living and nonliving things, life cycles of plants and animals, habitats, and all things animal related. Here is the power point we used this week to introduce some of our vocabulary.