Thinking Like A Scientist and Engineer
What are the two methods of Scientific Thinking?
Compare the Scientific Method to the Engineering design process
K-1st grade
-Problem Solving using age appropriate skills. Fine and gross motor skills, eye hand coordination practice
2nd grade
-What is Matter? Rocks and Fossils
3rd grade
-Engineering Design Cycle applied to various projects
-Antarctic Penguin Races
4th grade
-Matter and Electricity. What is a circuit?
-What are Atoms? Parts of an Atom.
5th grade
-Ecosystems, Biomes and the Cycles of Life.
-Let’s Build a Biosphere-
6th grade-
-What is Energy? Simple Machines and the Roller Coaster Challenge
7th grade-Safety Rules and the Nature of Science-How to do a Life Science Investigation
-What is DNA? Isolation and Extraction of DNA from a plant cell
-Genes and Inheritance—-What is an Allele? Let’s design an Organism
-Systems of the Body
8th grade-Safety Rules and the Nature of Science-How to do a Physical Science Investigation
-8th grade- What is Matter? Matterslideshow.pdf
periodic Table
-What are minerals and their properties? Dynamic Earth—Volcano/Earthquake models