Hi, Beal Students and Families!

The schedule below will help you with your daily work. Have fun learning!

Remote Learning Lessons for Grade: Science Grade 5 Week 8

Week of: 5/25

Tasks: Monday

Video https://mysteryscience.com/astronomy/mystery-6/planets-solar-

system/78?code=MTY5OTU3MDA&t=student

Questions What are the wandering stars? This Mystery introduces the

“wandering stars.” Students will learn what it means to see them with

their own eyes, and will learn some interesting discoveries about each

one. In the activity, Running to Neptune, students draw out the

planets in our Solar System with chalk on the playground. Then, they

play a racing game, running to each planet, reinforcing the names,

order, and relative distances between the planets.

Activity 1. Today in science we're answering the question: "What are the

wandering stars?" It’s a bit of a trick question, since the

wandering stars aren’t stars at all. The wandering stars are

planets, a word that comes from the Greek word for 'wanderer'.

2. Your child will have learned that different planets orbit the Sun

more quickly or more slowly than the Earth. So here's a fun

follow-up you can explore with them: your age (in years) on

Mercury or Neptune would be very different from your age on

Earth. You and your child can calculate your ages on other

planets using [this online calculator]

(http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/).

3. If you want to feel young, check out your age on Neptune where

a 40-year-old has not yet celebrated a birthday. (It takes

Neptune over 160 Earth years to complete one orbit of the sun!)

4. Your child will be learning about the planets in class, but no

matter how cool it is to see photos of planets, seeing the real

thing is always more exciting. You can find out what’s going on in

the sky [this week]

(http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/)

or find out what to look for in the sky [tonight]

(http://earthsky.org/tonight) There’s always something

interesting happening in the night sky. Check frequently, and

you’re sure to find a good time to spot a planet.

5. Watch mystery answering questions as you go.

6. Experiment: Do the experiment taking pictures as you go if you

have the equipment. If you need to improvise please do. You

need: marker, ruler, scissors, toilet paper tube, chalk, string,

handout, end-of-mystery assessment.

7. You need an outdoor area that’s at least 60 feet long where you

can mark on the ground with chalk. Do the best you can if you

don’t have a lot of room.

8. Follow the mystery with the instructions of the activity.

9. Complete end-of-mystery assessment. Tasks: Tuesday

Video https://mysteryscience.com/astronomy/mystery-

7/gravity/290?code=MTY5OTU3MDA&t=student

Questions Why is gravity different on other planets? In this Mystery, students

discover that gravity exists on all planets and moons, but the amount

of gravity is different because it depends on how massive the object

is. In the activity, Gravity Jump, students learn about the

gravitational pull of the Earth, the Moon, and other places within our

Solar System. Students measure how high they can jump on Earth and

then calculate how high they would be able to jump on other planets.

Activity 1. Today we will learn that the Earth isn’t the only place with

gravity. It’s a property of all the planets and moons in our Solar

System. We jumped around the classroom and measured our

highest jump. Then we calculated how high we could jump on the

Moon, Mars, and Jupiter!

2. Here’s something you can do at home! Find out how much you and

your child would [weigh on the Moon]

(https://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/) Your weight

depends on gravity!

3. Watch mystery and answer questions as you go.

4. Experiment: Do the experiment taking pictures as you go if you

have the equipment. If you need to improvise please do. You

need: crayons, rulers, post its, handouts, end-of-mystery

assessment

5. Decide Where Students Will Jump: Students needs a blank space

(a wall or cabinet) where they can place their sticky notes and

measure their jump height. If you have enough space in the

classroom this is ideal, but you can also do this in the hallway.

6. Set up Planet and Moon Exploration Stations: We recommend

printing out a set of the Planet and Moon Exploration Stations so

that a maximum of 4 students are at each station at a time

(given a class of 32 students).

7. Teacher Science Background: We have rounded numbers to

simplify the gravitational differences between Earth and other

planets and moons. If you or your students are curious, the

exact amounts of gravitational pull and how they compare to

Earth are listed here:

• Earth | 9.70 m/s2

• Moon | 1.62 m/s2 | 5.98 times less gravity than Earth

• Jupiter | 24.79 m/s2 | 2.55 times more gravity than Earth

• Mars | 3.71 m/s2 | 2.61 times less gravity than Earth

• Titan | 1.35 m/s2 | 7.18 times less gravity than Earth

• Triton | 0.78 m/s2 | 12.43 times less gravity than Earth

• Neptune | 11.15 m/s2 | 1.15 times more gravity than Earth

Even though they are much larger than Earth, both Jupiter and

Neptune are gas planets, which means that they have much lower

densities. Uranus is much larger than Earth, but because the density is

much less in comparison to Earth’s, the gravitational pull of Uranus is

actually less than that of Earth.

8. Follow the mystery with the instructions of the activity.

9. Complete end-of-mystery assessment.

Tasks: Wednesday Must Do

Video StemScopes: Reading Science A-Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Questions What is reduce, reuse, recycle?

Activity 1. Log onto StemScopes through the Student Applications.

2. Go to Assignments.

3. Click on Reading Science A-Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

4. Read. 5. Reread, answering questions as you go.

6. Turn in when you are done.

These are the review challenge assignments for this week. Go to STEMscopes and

complete the questions on the following assignments. Let's see how many shout outs I

can give this week. Send me a message when you are finished. If you think you have

finished already check to make sure I have not returned anything to you.

1. Multiple choice assessment using STEMscopedia from Reducing Human Footprint

2. Concept attainment assessment using STEMscopedia from Reducing Human Footprint

3. Claims-Evidence-Reasoning from Reducing Human Footprint

4. STEMscopedia from Reducing Human Footprint

I have posted a list of websites on the bealelementary.org page. Please choose activities

that your child would like to explore. Please pick an activity from the list to do with

your scientist each day that you don’t do an assignment. Have fun and stay curious.