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Remote Learning Lessons for Grade: Science Grade 1 Week 8

Week of: 5/25

Tasks: Monday

Video https://mysteryscience.com/mini-

lessons/tears?code=2e8dec88c9d4491d30129ca541e9fe21

Questions Could a statue’s shadow move? In this Mystery, students investigate

what it takes to make a stationary object’s shadow move. In the

activity, Moving Shadows, students use flashlights and paper gnomes to

explore how moving the position of a light makes shadows move.

Students relate these observations to shadows changing throughout the

day and the Sun’s position moving across the sky.

Activity This week we will review our unit about the sun, moon, and stars. In

our first few lessons we will be learning about the sun, in particular

how its place changes in the sky throughout the day. In our first

lesson, your child will observe the surprising fact that the shadow of a

stationary object moves, even though the object itself is not moving!

This is because of how the sun’s place is changing in the sky. Although

we will not yet be introducing the idea of the Earth’s rotation, next

week we will be learning more details about the sun’s path, including

learning about east and west (the direction of sunrise and sunset!).

You can encourage your child’s curiosity about the sun by going for a

late afternoon walk around your neighborhood, and inviting them to

notice where the shadows are. You can bring up interesting questions

to ponder, such as: Which direction are the shadows pointing? How can

you use a shadow’s direction to know where the sun is (since it’s not

safe to look directly at the sun)? How might these shadows be

different in the morning?

1. Watch mystery answering questions as you go. You will need to

do this activity in the dark with the lights off. We provide seven

different Shadow Patterns, so we recommend setting up seven

stations. You can choose to set up fewer stations depending on

your space or the number of flashlights that you have available.

2. Activity: Do the experiment taking pictures as you go if you

have the equipment. Follow the mystery with the instructions of

the activity. If you need to improvise please do. You need: blank

paper, markers, scotch tape, LED Flashlights, handouts, end-of-

mystery assessment.

3. Set Up Activity Stations For each station:

• Cut out one of the paper gnomes. Fold on the solid lines at his

feet and the tip of his hat.

• Overlap the flaps at the gnome’s feet and tape him to the

rectangle on one of the Shadow Patterns.

• Tape the Shadow Pattern down to a table or desk.

• Put a flashlight beside the gnome.

4. Find a Sunny Spot (Recommended)

If it’s sunny, you can watch how a shadow cast by the Sun changes

over time—just by marking a shadow early in the lesson and checking

on it later.

For this extension:

• Cut out one paper gnome. Fold on the solid lines at his feet and

the tip of his hat.

• Overlap the flaps at the gnome’s feet and tape him to a blank

sheet of paper.

• Tape the blank sheet of paper down to a table or desk that will

be in the Sun for the whole time you are teaching the Mystery.

• Outline the gnome’s shadow with a marker and write down the

time in the center of the outline.

If it’s cloudy when you teach, don’t worry. We show the experiment in

the video. You can watch the video and try the experiment yourself on

a day when the Sun is out.

5. Complete end-of-mystery assessment.

Tasks: Tuesday

Video https://mysteryscience.com/secrets/mystery-1/animal-needs-

food/115?code=MTY5OTU3MDA&t=student

Questions Why do woodpeckers peck wood? In this Mystery, students observe

animal behaviors and work to discover a pattern: all animals seek food

in order to survive. The activity, Eat Like an Animal, includes physical

movement in which students act out animal behaviors, pretending to be

quail scratching in the dirt, raccoons wading in the water, and

woodpeckers pecking a log.

Activity 1. This week we continue our unit about animals and their survival

needs. Our lesson is called, “Why does a woodpecker peck

wood?” We will learn how every animal has the need to find

food. When we see animals in the wild, very often they are

looking for food.

2. You can encourage your child’s curiosity at home! It’s great for a

child to have the experience of keeping and helping sustain a

critter that’s been caught outside. It could be as simple as

keeping a bug in a jar, even just for a couple of days. Don’t do

the work for your child, ask them what kinds of things the

creature might need. You can guide them to see that it may

need holes poked in a lid (for air). Together, you can search

Google to find out what the animal eats, and your child can go

out and find food to give it.

3. Watch mystery and answer questions and do what the read along

says as you go.

4. Activity: Do the experiment taking pictures as you go if you

have the equipment. Follow the mystery with the instructions of

the activity. If you need to improvise please do. You need:

plastic bottle, plastic or wooden spoons, scissors, floral wire or

string

5. Make sure students have enough space to move around as they

pretend to be different animals in the forest. Since there’s so

little prep for this activity, we recommend you also do one of

the activities in the Extras section. To understand what animals

need, it’s important that children have a chance to observe

them. You can provide that opportunity by attracting birds with

a bird feeder, taking your student on a nature walk or field trip,

or having your students observe animals through videos.

6. Simple Bird Feeders: A feeder filled with birdseed can attract

finches, sparrows, and chickadees for your class to observe.

Transform an old soda bottle into a seed feeder with the

instructions here. Insect-eating birds, like woodpeckers,

nuthatches, juncos, and jays, like high fat food. To attract

them, you can get a suet cake from a hardware store, along with

an inexpensive suet holder like this one. Or you make your own

with a recipe from Birds & Blooms and pack it in an old cup like

this. The birds will be happy either way.

7. Complete end-of-mystery assessment.

Tasks: Wednesday Must Do

Video StemScopes: Content Connections Video-Plant Adaptations.

Questions How do plants adapt to their environment?

Activity 1. Log onto StemScopes through the Student Applications.

2. Go to Assignments.

3. Click on Content Connections Video-Plant Adaptations.

4. Watch video and pause when it asks you questions and discuss

the answers.

5. Answer questions online.

6. Turn in when complete

These are the review challenge assignments for this week. Go to STEMscopes and complete

the questions on the following assignments. Let's see how many shout outs I can give this week.

Send me a message when you are finished. If you think you have finished already check to make

sure I have not returned anything to you.

1. Content Connections Video-Plants and Their Environment-Pixelate

2. Reading Science: Read Aloud-What Plants Need

3. Multiple Choice assessment from Plant Survival using STEMscopedia to help.

4. Concept Attainment Quiz from Plant Survival using STEMscopedia to help.

5. STEMscopedia from Plant Survival

I have posted a list of websites on the bealelementary.org website. Please choose

activities that your child would like to explore. Please pick an activity from the list to

do with your scientist each day that you don’t do an assignment. Have fun and stay

curious.