1: Animals
1.1: Explain some food chains and food webs.
1.1.5: Apply the terms predator, prey, grazers, scavenger to the members of the food chains identified.
Prairie Ecosystem
3: Properties of Matter
3.1.: Determine which properties of objects can be used to help identify them.
Mineral Identification
Phases of Water
3.2.: Develop skills in using a balance to measure the mass of matter.
Weight and Mass
Phases of Water
3.3.: Recognize solids, liquids, and gases as states of matter.
Phases of Water
Phases of Water
4: The Solar System
4.1.: Define the terms revolution and rotation, with respect to the Earth and the Moon.
Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
Solar System
4.2.: Describe how the rotation of the Earth produces day and night.
Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
Solar System
4.3.: Recognize that the revolution of the Earth around the Sun produces the seasons.
Summer and Winter
Solar System
4.4.: Investigate why the full moon and new moon occur, using models.
Phases of the Moon
4.5.: Observe the full moon and the new moon in the sky.
Phases of the Moon
4.6.: Show how the eclipses of the Sun and the Moon occur.
Eclipse
6: Heating and Cooling: Optional
6.3.: Observe how heat can be transferred from one object to another.
Conduction and Convection
Heat Absorption
Radiation
Phases of Water
6.4.: Experiment with aiding and inhibiting heat transfer.
Conduction and Convection
Phases of Water
6.5.: Contrast the concept of heat with the term "cold."
Conduction and Convection
7: Plant Structures and Adaptations
7.1.: Recognize roots, stems, leaves, and flowers as common structures of most plants.
Flower Pollination
Flower Pollination
7.2.: Examine modifications of roots, stems, leaves, and flowers.
Flower Pollination
8: Simple Machines: Optional
8.1.: Observe how gravity, magnetism, push and pull, and friction influence objects.
Levers
8.6.: Design and construct a simple or compound machine to complete a particular task.
Levers
Correlation last revised: 9/16/2020