7.+Science+Unit


 * **National Curriculum Standards**
 * (Knowledge and Skills)** || **Digital tools and examples of products** ||
 * "Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment."

"Communicate ideas, explanations and processes in a variety of ways, including multimodal texts." || * Create a Voicethread (images, text and audio) about a threatened species, describing it's characteristics, habitat and threats to it's survival.
 * Create a concept map using Bubbl.us that shows the structural features of an organism and how each feature helps that organism to survive.
 * Blabberize is a fun site that let's you use an image to create a talking character. The animal can explain the structural features that assist it to survive. ||
 * " Solids, liquids and gases have different observable properties and behave in different ways."

"Communicate ideas, explanations and processes in a variety of ways, including multimodal texts." || * Create a video in the "Common Craft" style that explains how the particles behave in different states of matter. The 60 Second Science Challenge is a competition to create a video that explains a science concept in just 60 seconds.
 * Create a cartoon in Comic Life showing the different states of matter. ||
 * " The Earth is part of a system of planets orbiting around a star (the sun)."

"Communicate ideas, explanations and processes in a variety of ways, including multimodal texts." || * Create a Wordle or Tagxedo that shows the relative sizes of each of the planets in our solar system, by repeating the names of the largest planets the most times.
 * Create a video, Slideshow or Prezi about our solar system.
 * Create a postcard or travel brochure, describing each of the planets in our solar system.
 * This teacher's blog has a great post about how his Grade 5 class did a unit on space. ||
 * "Construct and use a range of representations, including tables and graphs, to represent and describe observations, patterns or relationships in data using digital technologies as appropriate." || * Create-a-Graph is a site where students can add their data to a table and create line graphs, bar graphs and pie charts. ||
 * " Science involves testing predictions by gathering data and using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena." || * The Science Buddies site has some excellent ideas for project-based learning. ||
 * " Important contributions to the advancement of science have been made by people from a range of cultures." || * Projects about Famous Scientists can be presented using Voki or Blabberize. ||
 * " Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to solve problems that directly affect peoples’ lives." || * Investigate an invention - Archimedes screw, a trebuchet, wind turbine. ||
 * " Scientific knowledge is used to inform personal and community decisions." || * Which is the best kitty litter to buy? ||