Science

=This year (2016- 17) we will be studying the following in science and social studies:=


 * //__The Changing Earth __//**
 * //Students will: //**
 * Develop and communicate logical conclusions and make predictions based on evidence from experiments.
 * Represent data and evidence from experiments in visual form (e.g., data tables, graphs, diagrams).
 * Identify and describe the concepts of weathering, erosion, and deposition and resulting physical features (e.g., canyons, mountains).
 * Identify that basic models are used to understand scientific processes and/or objects that may be difficult to study.

Stream Table Experiment
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My father is an alien (the evidence doesn't lie!) media type="youtube" key="lYp638I_LR8" width="560" height="315"

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 * //__Ecosystems __//**
 * //Students will: //**
 * Develop and communicate logical conclusions and make predictions based on evidence from experiments.
 * Identify and describe the influence of nonliving components on living components in ecosystems.
 * Identify and describe organisms’ interactions in ecosystems.
 * //__Investigating Physical and Chemical Properties __//**
 * //Students will: //**
 * Identify appropriate scientific tools used to gather data for investigations.
 * Represent data and evidence from experiments in visual forms (e.g., data tables, graphs, diagrams).
 * //__<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Regions of the U.S. __//**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Students will: //**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Know how to use and construct maps, globes, and other geographic tools to locate and derive information about people, places, and environments.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Know physical and human characteristics of places and use this knowledge to define and study regions and their patterns of change.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Understand how physical processes shape Earth's surface patterns and systems.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Understand how economic, political, cultural, and social processes interact to shape patterns of human populations, interdependence, cooperation, and conflicts.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Understand effects of interactions between human and physical systems and changes in meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Understand that societies are diverse and have changed over time.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Understand how science, technology, and economic activities have developed, changed, and affected societies throughout history.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Understand purposes of government and basic constitutional principles of U.S. republican form of government.

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=__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Colorado Animal Research - resources __=

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|netTrekker] - (you will need your DPS student ID number)
Your next project that relates to Life Cycles and gets us thinking about Denver and Colorado is to choose a Colorado Animal and create a web page with information about your animal. You will need to determine what your main question is going to be about your animal. What is it you really want to find out and do some research on? Your webpage will be on this wiki and will have to include the following:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">• Written information including notes and drawings. (Handwritten notes or drawings can be photographed and then uploaded) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">• A life-cycle record page <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">• A timeline that shows when your animal goes through its different life stages <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">• A life-cycle model like the paper plate models we made in class <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">• Resources cited at the bottom showing where you got your information.

You can check out the rubric to figure out exactly what you need to do to get a good grade on this project.

=<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Life Cycles = =__<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Student Questions __= ==As we wrap up this unit, students will be focusing on using the scientific process to answer questions they are curious about. Here are the questions they have put on our question door in no particular order. Most of these questions were asked before the unit was taught. We will review the questions then explore how our questions have changed over time.==


 * 1) === How do mealworms change into beetles? ===
 * 2) ===In what seasons do beetles lay eggs?===
 * 3) ===How do beetles keep safe?===
 * 4) === How big do triops get? ===
 * 5) === How long does it take for triop eggs to hatch? ===
 * 6) ===How long are mealworms' life cycles?===
 * 7) ===Do all beetles change the same as darkling beetles?===
 * 8) ===How can the stages of the life cycle look so different when they are the same creature?===
 * 9) === Do mealworm pupas look the same as butterfly pupas? ===
 * 10) === What kind of bug is that big beetle (that Chris brought into the classroom)? ===
 * 11) === How long does it take for a caterpillar to change to a pupa? ===
 * 12) ===How much do mealworms grow?===
 * 13) === Do mealworms come from eggs? ===
 * 14) ===Do their parents guard them?===
 * 15) ===How do silkworms grow?===
 * 16) ===How did the mulberry plants get diseased (Louis Pasteur's discovery in our science text)?===
 * 17) ===Why do strange looking creatures move in their pupas?===
 * 18) === How many legs does a mealworm have? ===
 * 19) ===Where do beetles lay their eggs?===
 * 20) ===How do microscopic life forms reproduce?===
 * 21) ===What is the red spot on some of the triops?===
 * 22) ===Why do mealworms shed into strange-looking creatures?===
 * 23) ===Why do mealwormsf turn into beetles?===
 * 24) === How many legs on a beetle ?===
 * 25) ===How do crawling creatures turn into flying or different creatures?===
 * 26) ===How long does it take for a pupa to become an adult?===
 * 27) ===What do tadpoles eat?===
 * 28) ===How do you know which side has the eyes and how big are the eyes (on triops??)?===
 * 29) ===Are life cycles going to go on forever?===
 * 30) === Why did we not see the (darkling beetle) eggs ?===
 * 31) ===How long do they live?===
 * 32) ===How do they make their shelter===
 * 33) ===How do they get their water and food?===
 * 34) ===How many babies can the mealworms have?===
 * 35) === Will the beetles have babies? ===
 * 36) ===Do the larva eat alot before becoming a pupa?===
 * 37) ===What do the eggs look like?===
 * 38) ===Is the life cycle of a beetle.. egg, pupa, mealworm, beetle?===
 * 39) ===How do caterpillars turn into butterflies in a cocoon?===
 * 40) ===How many times does the rock go through the rock cycle?===
 * 41) ===What would happen if the butterflies get into the beetle's tank?===
 * 42) ===Do triops have babies?===
 * 43) ===Do all animals have a defense?===
 * 44) ===How long does it take for the pupas to hatch?===
 * 45) ===Are sharks born alive?===
 * 46) ===Would a mealworm eat a flower petal?===
 * 47) ===What exactly do beetles eat?===
 * 48) ===What exactly do mealworms eat?===
 * 49) ===Where do mealworms and beetles live?===
 * 50) ===Why do mealworms turn into beetles?===
 * 51) ===Why do the pupas turn white?===
 * 52) ===What do triops turn into?===
 * 53) ===What is pasteurization?===

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