Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Curriculum Alignment: Science
Ages: 12-15
Standards: National Science Standard
- Plants and animals have life cycles that include being born, developing into adults, reproducing, and eventually dying.
- The details of this life cycle are different for different organisms.
Learner Outcomes/Objectives:
- Students will understand the basic life cycle of a butterfly.
- Students will be able to accurately draw the four stages of the life cycle of a butterfly.
Volcano
Curriculum Alignment: Science
Ages: 10-14
Standards: National Science Education Standards
Students should develop an understanding of:
Properties and changes of properties in matter
Motions and forces
Transfer of energy
Learner Outcomes/Objectives:
- Students will understand the process of a volcano eruption.
- Students will demonstrate their knowledge of cause and effect.
The Weather Outside the Window
Curriculum Alignment: Science
Ages: 6-10
Standards: National Science Standards
Students should develop an understanding of:
- changes in earth and sky and weather changes from day to day and over the seasons.
- The concept that weather can be described by measurable quantities, such as temperature, wind direction and speed, and precipitation.
Learner Outcomes/Objectives:
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All students, given the Animation-Ish program, will accurately draw and animate the current day’s weather using at least three details.
Changing Seasons
Curriculum Alignment: Science
Ages: 4-6
Standards: Recognize changes in appearance that animals and plants go through as the seasons change.
Learner Outcomes/Objectives:
- Student will identify the four seasons
- Student will document changes in a tree throughout the seasons
- Student will understand that there are changes in animal behavior as the seasons change
- Student will understand that there are changes in plants as seasons change
Life Cycle
Curriculum Alignment: Science
Ages: 9-11
Standards: Recognize that plants and animals go through predictable life cycles that include birth, growth, development, reproduction, and death.
Learner Outcomes/Objectives:
- Student will create and understand a representation of the life cycle of a flower.
Water Cycle
Curriculum Alignment: Science
Ages: 9-11
Standards: Describe how the water on earth cycles in different forms and in different locations, including underground and in the atmosphere.
Learner Outcomes/Objectives:
- Student will be able to create a diagram representing the water cycle
- Student will label diagram appropriately with evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and run off.
Cycles
Curriculum Alignment: Science
Ages: 8 and up
Standards: Natural cycles balance and regulate the earth and its atmosphere.
Learner Outcomes/Objectives:
Students will demonstrate understanding of a cycle, especially its repetitive nature.
