Long Range Plan

Grade: 4/5 Teacher: Miss Nicole Carlson

Subject: Science Semester: Spring 2018
Year: 2018
Topics Dates Major Activities Materials & Evaluation &
by Outcomes Resources Assessment
week
Jan 8-  4-1, 4-  Info sheets  Pinterest  Info sheet completion
Wheels Jan 19 2, 4-3,  Demonstrations  Resource  Experiment analysis
and  Hands on practice manuals  Completion of wheels and
4-4, 4-
 Building types of Levers  Bill Nye levers building
Levers 5, 4-6, 
 Building types of wheels Simple
levers and GOALS:
wheels Know the types of simple
experiment machines and what they do.
s Able to make these simple
machines.

Jan  4-6, 4-  Info sheet  Pinterest  Info sheet completion

Simple 22- 7, 4-8  Build a working simple  Resource  Experiment analysis
Machine Feb car manuals  Completion of simple
s  Explore other simple  Bill Nye- machine project- all
28 devices simple components
(building  Make your own simple machines  Presentation of simple
Devices machine: design  Recycled machine
and machine, make materials  Reflection on simple
vehicles schematic, create for machine presentation
that machine, modify experiment
move)  What is an incline plane s GOALS:
 Pulleys and winches  Building Understand and demonstrate
 Centers for different simple the ability to create their own
moving devices (make a, machines simple machines, that move.
wheel, lever, pulley, units Demonstrate the ability to
winch, etc)  E is for follow through on the
 Playing angry birds Explore- scientific process.
(catapult strategy) mini
pulleys,
slingshots,
catapults,
wheels and
levers
 Learn 360,
levers and
wheels

Waste in Mar  4-5  What is waste matching  Pinterest  Info sheet completion
our 5-Mar worksheet  Resource  Skit completion
 Biodegradable vs non manuals  Diagram completion
World 23
biodegradable  Evergreen  Performance reflection
worksheet/diagram theater GOALS:
 Three R’s skit  How it’s Achieve an
 Recycling-more than made, understanding of the ways
plastic (can also recycle recycled we can help reduce the
clothes or books, etc) things waste in our school and in
 The Lorax our world. Achieve an
 Bill Nye understanding of the ways

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Long Range Plan
Grade: 4/5 Teacher: Miss Nicole Carlson
Subject: Science Semester: Spring 2018
Year: 2018
to follow the 3R’s, and the
cycle of decomposing.

Waste in Mar  4-5  Decomposition  Pinterest  Decomp analysis and

our 26- containers-what happens  Resource observation journals
to fruit when it goes manuals  Poster completion
world Apr bad?  Bill Nye  Research project
27  Can we reduce waste at  Decomposi completion
school? Poster project tion time  Scientific analysis
 Waste on earth research lapse
project-where does it  Degradable GOALS:
go? timelapse Understand why and how
 Biodegradable project-  Waste in things decompose and
How long before it’s the oceans degrade. Show creativity
gone? informatio through poster project.
n
 What
happens to
waste in
the ocean?

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