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What's happening in Science?

Mealworm Madness!

We have been observing and learning about mealworms since we returned from Winter Break as part of our study of life cycles.  Mealworms go through four stages in their life cycle; egg, larva, pupa and adult.  We have both large and small mealworms.  Many have shed their skin, or molted, and some have entered the pupa stage.  However, with the prolonged cold classroom over our unplanned "second winter break" they may take longer to go through the life cycle.  We have observed a few of the mealworms becoming pupas, and we have one darkling beetle emerging.  Check out these pictures of our class getting to know the mealworms!

Check out this website for some educational fun with pests!

http://www.pestworldforkids.org/games.html

 Science Indicators

Science Content:
Use the senses and magnifying instruments to examine a variety of plants and animals to describe external features and what they do.

Compare similar features in some animals and plants and explain how each of these enables the organism to satisfy basic needs.

Use the information collected to ask and compare answers to questions about how an organism’s external features contribute to its ability to survive in an environment.

Classify organisms according to one selected feature, such as body covering, and identify other similarities shared by organisms within each group formed.

Using pictures, films and illustrated texts, identify, describe and compare living things found in other states such as Texas and Alaska to those found in Maryland .

Identify and describe features (observable parts) of animalsand plants that make some of them alike in the way they look and the things they do.

Compare descriptions of the features that make some animals and some plants very different from one another.
 

Compare ideas about how the features of animals and plants affect what these animals and plants are able to do.

Compare descriptions of the features that make some animals and some plants very different from one another.

Compare ideas about how the features of animals and plants affect what these animals and plants are able to do.

Compare descriptions of the features that make some animals and some plants very different from one another.

Explain ways in which humans are more like one another than like other animals.

Organize data collected and draw conclusions about similarities and differences among humans.

Describe similarities in what both humans and other animals are able to do because they possess certain external features.

Technology-Engineering:
Students will learn to brainstorm people’s needs and wants and pick some problems that can be solved through the design process.

Students will learn to build or construct an object using the design process.

Students will learn to investigate how things are made and how they can be improved.

Explain that the external features of plants and animals affect how well they thrive in different kinds of places.

Observe, describe, and give examples and describe the many kinds of living things found in different places in Maryland .

Science Skills and Processes:
Describe things as accurately as possible and compare observations with those of others.

Describe and compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion.
 

Seek information through reading, observation, exploration, and investigations.

Develop reasonable explanations for observations made, investigations completed, and information gained by sharing ideas and listening to others’ ideas.

Health:
Identify what makes you special.

List the proper steps for hand washing.