ATTACHMENT I

General Activities for Assessment

of

New Jersey Core Content Curriculum Standards

for

SCIENCE

Grades 5, 6, 7, and 8

 

WRITTEN EXPRESSION:

 

• Step by step instructions for conducting scientific investigations, operating equipment, or following a procedure.

• Record data accurately.

• Research and report on science topics.

• Quizzes/Tests/Evaluations

 

EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE:

 

• Share observations, explain and analyze outcomes.

• Formulate questions.

 

GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS:

 

• KWL Chart

• Compare/Contrast

• Venn Diagram

• Bar Graphs

• Charts/Posters

• Scientific Method

• Safety Procedures

• Periodic Table

• Diagrams

• Cross Sections

• Maps, etc.

• Diagrams

• Illustrations

• Science Fair

• Invention Convention

• Lost in Space

• Weather Reporting

• 3D Models/Puzzles

• Games

• Eco Studies

• Fossil Digs

• Chemistry of Bubble Gum

• Simple Machine Challenge

• Element BINGO

 

 

 

EXPERIMENTS/LABS:

FIELD STUDY/TESTS/SAMPLING:

 

Topical

• Literature/Art/Music/Movies

• Websites/WebQuests

• Field Trips/Virtual

• Guest Speakers

 

 

* All activities and assessments should emphasize hands-on, student centered, and inquiry-based approach. The relationship between science, our environment, and everyday life should be highlighted.

WEBSITES:

 

http://www.chem4kids.com

This site speaks directly to the young scientist. It’s an excellent tutorial for children learning scientific concepts and how math is integrated into science. There are no hands-on activities and the student has to have a genuine interest in topic because it is encyclopedic in its approach.

 

http://school.discovery.com/index.html

Discovery Channel School

This site offers multimedia, interactive video options to the classroom. The content is current and linked to the Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel programming, offering opportunities for teachers to tape the programming and use it interactively with TLC Elementary School lesson plans. Also provided for teachers and students on this website are previews of upcoming programs and “Bulletin Board” discussion opportunities regarding lessons/program. For full audio effects, the plug-in Real Audio needs to be downloaded.

 

http://www.nj.com/yucky/

The Yuckiest Site on the Internet

Learn all about cockroaches, worms, and your gross and cool body! This website has a great humorous slant to it that makes learning fun! Great graphics and sounds! This website is an excellent resource to use in the classroom to learn about entomology and bodily functions.

 

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu

Volcano World

Volcano World is an outstanding resource for kids interested in learning about volcanoes. This website contains real-time volcano information including interactive clickable map of active volcanoes worldwide and remote sensing satellite images. Topics covered at Volcano World include how volcanoes work, submarine volcanoes, planetary volcanoes, career information on becoming a volcanologist, volcanic parks and monuments and volcano exploration on the moon, Mars and Venus.

 

http://www.ncsu.edu/coast

Carolina Coastal Science

This web site contains a Carolina Coastal Photo Journal with QuickTime movies. Students can use this website to explore similarities and differences in the amount of sand, visible waves, and plant cover between the ocean side and marsh side of the same barrier island, and identify similarities and differences among the three regions of the Carolina Coast.

 

http://kids.mtpe.hq.nasa.gov/

For Kids Only – Earth Science Enterprise

This site has many interesting activities for young students to learn about various earth science concepts. An interactive online coloring book is a unique feature of this website.

 

http://obsesrve.ivv.nasa.gov/

NASA Observatorium

In addition to many awesome space pictures, this website contains a variety of interactive games with space themes that will engage young students.

 

http://whale.wheelock.edu

WhaleNet

This website has many classroom activities for teachers to use in the classroom for students to learn about whales and their habitat.

 

http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/textbook/elem_home1.html

MathMol Hypermedia Textbook for Elementary School

This website contains an online textbook for students of grades 3, 4, and 5 to learn about water, matter and energy, and atoms and molecules.

 

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/

National Geographic Kids

The website is for kids to explore the fascinating world of National Geographic. Interactive games and explorations make this website very engaging for young students.

 

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

Nine Planets Tour of the Solar System

Take a virtual tour of our solar system.

 

http://www.galaxyphoto.com/index.html

Galaxy Photography

This website offers great pictures of galaxies throughout our universe.

 

http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/bestOfHST95.html

Greatest Hits from the Hubble Telescope

Just like the title says, this website offers many unique space photographs!

 

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/

NASA’s Planetary Photojournal

This website offers a NASA database with over 1,200 space images.

 

http://www.nasm.edu/ceps/ETP/MARS

Mars the Red Planet

This is a great website for young students interested in exploring the planet Mars.

 

http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/

Cool Science for Curious Kids

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious kids to explore biology at this website. Activities include dust exploration, classifying critters, microscopy, plant parts, and more.

 

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/pond

Explore-A-Pond

Experience a simulated pond, take a virtual tour of an outdoor classroom, pond math and pond science activities, publish your adopted pond online and chat with other K-6 students interested in pond stuff.

 

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/

Sci4Kids

The science behind agriculture is presented as a series of interactive stories based on research projects featured in Agricultural Research. This website also contains photos, graphics, trivia, and classroom connections.

 

http://www.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/

Rock Hounds with Rocky

The website offers science activities to help students explore how sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks are made. The site also contains animations and interactive games.

 

http://www.omsi.edu//sln/air/

Air Travelers

This website introduces students to the basic principles of buoyancy, properties of gases, temperature, and the technology involved in hot air ballooning.