K-5+Force+and+Motion

Force and Motion Emily Goins - Mount Airy City Schools - egoins@mtairy.k12.nc.us Michelle Baker - McDowell County Schools - michelle.baker@mcdowell.k12.nc.us Pam Crowe - Rutherford County - pcrowe@rcsnc.org Georgina Ray - Madison County - gray@maidson.k12.nc.us Sharon Randoph - Yancey County - sarandolph@yanceync.net Michelle Benigno - Science House - michelle_benigno@ncsu.edu

Quote: Career and College, Ready, Set, Go! To prepare students for 21st century learning for future learning after high school, BEGINNING AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL!

Where does a tree come from? Air has mass and takes up space and when the plant takes in carbon dioxide and other particles from the air it it absorbing the mass in the air, which makes it grow. Lessons to show air takes up space: take a 2-liter bottle and put the top on, try to get a student to stand and get the air out. take a newspaper bag and place it under some books. Have a student blow air into the bag and the books will fall away.

Sorting the essential standards: sorted some by vocabulary - some vocabulary more advanced in the the upper grades some changes have been made in 5th, 4th and 3rd grade bloom wordage is more advanced the higher you go in grade got all k-2 standards correct we picked out grade level and did not put which standards built on to one another - had to move out answers to show flow the sixth - eighth feed into the biology blooms is still organized in each level