Science Concepts Learned at Euchee Creek Elementary!
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The beauty of color and light! |
Light and Color
Harcourt Science (Georgia Edition)
The Bid Idea: Light can be reflected, and absorbed by various materials. The interaction of light with different types of objects can be predicted.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
What are the characteristics of light?
How are light and color related?
What effect does light have on an object at different angles?
What tools can be used to measure light?
Science Vocabulary and Definition List
LIGHT and COLOR
Unit E) Chapter 4 (pages E98-E116)
Lesson 1
1. reflection : The bouncing of light off an object (E102)
2. refraction : The bending of the path of light when it moves from one kind of matter to another. (E104)
3. absorption : The stopping of light when it hits a wall or other opaque object. (E106)
4. opaque : Reflecting or absorbing all light; no image can be seen. (E106)
5. translucent : Allowing some light to pass through; blurry image can be seen. (E106)
6. transparent : Allows most light to pass through; clear image can be seen. (E106)
Lesson 2
1. prism : A solid object that bends light; not a lens. (E110)
2. visible spectrum : The range of light energy that people can see. (E110)
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What causes sound? |
SOUND!
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
How does sound differ from various sources?
How do sound waves travel?
What role does the ear have in hearing sound?
What are the tools used to measure sound?
Science Vocabulary and Definition List
SOUND
(Unit E) Chapter 3 (pages E66-E89)
Lesson 1
1. sound : A series of vibrations that you can hear. (E70)
2. compression : The part of a sound wave in which air is pushed together. (E71)
3. sound wave : A moving pattern of high and low pressure that you can hear. (E71)
4. amplitude : A measure of the strength of a sound wave; shown by height on a wave diagram. (E72)
5. wavelength : The distance from one compression to the next in a sound wave. (E72)
Lesson 2
1. loudness : Your perception of the amount of sound energy reaching your ear. (E78)
2. pitch : A measure of how high or low a sound is. (E79)
Lesson 3
1. speed of sound : The speed at which a sound wave travels through a given material. (E84)
2. echo : A sound reflection. (E86)
3. sonic boom : A shock wave of compressed sound waves produced by an object moving faster than sound. (E88)
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Ecosystem: Food Chains and Food Webs |
LIFE SCIENCE: Transfer of Energy
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
How do food chains and food webs affect our ecosystem?
How do the organism and environment affect one another?
Vocabulary:
1. Producers are organisms that make their own food through photosynthesis. Producers use sunlight to produce oxygen and make food.
2. Primary Consumers are organisms that cannot make their food, but eats producers for energy. (May also be called Prey)
3. Secondary Consumers are organisms that don't make their food, but eat primary consumers for energy. (Called Predators)
4. Scavengers eat and separate dead materials.
5. Decomposers are organisms which digest or breaks down living material which has died.
6. An herbivore is a consumer, which eats primarily plant material.
7. A carnivore consumes primarily animal material.
8. An omnivore eats both plant and animal matter. |
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Solar System |
Solar System
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
• What causes day and night?
• Why is it not daytime all over the world?
• Where does the moon go during the day?
• Why does the moon not look the same every night?
• Why do different parts of the world have seasons at different times of the year?
• Why do we not fall off the earth when it tilts?
• Why do the planets stay in the same basic order?
• How is the movement of planets different from the movement of stars?
• How are stars and planets alike?
• How are stars and planets different?
• How are planets similar?
• How are planets different?
(Unit D) Chapter 3 LESSON 1
1. satellite: An object that moves around another object in space; the moon is a satellite of Earth. (D64)
2. orbit:The path that an object such as a planet makes as it revolves around a second object. (D65)
3. phase: One of the different shapes the moon seems to have as it orbits around Earth. (D64)
4. revolution: The movement of any object in an orbit, such as Earth moving around the sun. (D65)
5. axis: An imaginary line which runs through both poles of a planet. (D65)
6. rotation: The motion of a planet or other object as it turns on its axis. (D65) |
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SCIENTIFIC METHOD!
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
How do scientists work?
Question: What do you want to find out?
Purpose: Tell why you did the project.
Hypothesis: What do you THINK you will find out?
Materials: List all the materials used to complete the experiment.
Procedures: Tell how you did the project. (Step by step)
Observations: Record what you see in your logbook.
Results: What actually happened with your experiment?
Conclusions: What did you learn about your question? Was your hypothesis correct or not correct? Explain why |
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