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Math Science Nucleus/FUSD
Online Science Classes
Fall, 2022
Museum Science Online!
Location:  4074 Eggers Drive, Fremont)

Fremont Unified School District Teachers interested in participating in Online Science Classes for grades K-6 simply have to register and you will receive a Zoom meeting code to join the meeting for your class.  You can then give that code to  your students if they are taught online.  These classes are sanctioned by FUSD.  Contact Sue Lemke (Manager of Science and Math) for more information if you are new to these presentations at slemke@fusdk12.net.  If you are having trouble with registration please contact Hagos at hagos@msnucleus.org.  The presentations go through the key points and even have worksheets (which will be put on this page before the presentation) that you can have your students print out and create.  Our technique is more "minds-on" since we cannot do hands-on with them.  Some of the worksheets can be used as a hand on lesson in the classroom.  

Kindergarten
Sept 15, Thursday
10:30-11:15 am

Pushes and Pulls (Forces)
Guiding Questions

• What happens when you push or pull on an object? • How can you make an object move faster or in a different direction?
NGSS Standards

K-PS2-1. Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object. K-PS2-2. Analyze data to determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or a pull.*
WORKSHEET (Paper airplane)

Kindergarten
Sept 15, Thursday
2-2:45 pm

repeat of above
Pushes and Pulls (Forces)
Guiding Questions

What causes shadows?  What happens when there is no light?
NGSS Standards
1-PS4-2. Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects in darkness can be seen only when illuminated. 1-PS4-3. Plan and conduct investigations to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.
WORKSHEET (Paper airplane)
First Grade
Sept 20, Tuesday
10-11 am
Light
Guiding Questions

What causes shadows?  What happens when there is no light?
NGSS Standards
1-PS4-2. Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects in darkness can be seen only when illuminated. 1-PS4-3. Plan and conduct investigations to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.
• What happens when you push or pull on an object? • How can you make an object move faster or in a different direction?
 
WORKSHEET shadow puppet
Second Grade
Sept 27,
Tuesday
10-11 am
Materials
Guiding Questions
:
 How can we describe different materials?  • How are materials similar and different from one another? • What sort of changes can happen to materials? • How do the properties of the materials relate to their use?
NGSS
2-PS1-1. Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties. 2-PS1-2. Analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for the intended purpose.* 2-PS1-3. Make observations to construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a new object. 2-PS1-4. Construct an argument with evidence that some changes caused by heating or cooling can be reversed and some cannot.
WORKSHEET   (periodic table) (element book template)
Third Grade
October 4, Tuesday
10-11 am
Forces
Guiding Questions
• What happens when several different forces push or pull an object at once? • How can an object be pushed or pulled but not move? • What do we need to know to predict the motion of objects? • How can some objects push or pull one another without even touching?
NGSS
3-PS2-1. Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.   3-PS2-2. Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.   3-PS2-3. Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.
WORKSHEET   (helicopter) (link to how to make jacob's ladder)
Fourth Grade
October 11, Tuesday
10:15-11:15 am
Vision and Light
Guiding Questions • How do the internal and external structures of animals help them sense and interpret their environment? • How do senses help animals survive, grow, and reproduce? • What role does light play in how we see?
NGSS
 
4-LS1-2. Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.   4-PS3-2. Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents. 4-PS4-2. Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen
WORKSHEET (perception)(background on experiment)(nervous system)
Fifth Grade
October 18, Tuesday
10:15-11:15 am
Matter
Guiding Questions
 • What causes different materials to have different properties? • How do materials change when they dissolve, evaporate, melt, or mix together? • What are the differences between solids, liquids, and gases?
NGSS
5-PS1-1. Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen. 5-PS1-2. Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is conserved. 5-PS1-3. Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties. 5-PS1-4. Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.
WORKSHEET (making borax crystals)
 Sixth Grade
October 27, Thursday
10:15-11:15 am
Plant Growth and Reproduction
MS-LS1-4 Use arguement based on emphirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how charaterists of plant structures affet the probability of successful reproduction of plants
MS-LS1-5  Construct a scientific explanation based on evidene for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms.
WORKSHEET

for more information on classes
Joyce Blueford  (blueford@msnucleus.org
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registration problems?
call or email Hagos (510)790-6284  or hagos@msnucleus.org


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