Unit 7 - Plants - Anatomy (parts) of a plant, pollination and photosynthesis

Unit 6 - Weather - completed with Ms. Neely - types of clouds, fair and foul weather, high and low pressure, warm and cold fronts, weather tools

Unit 5 - Solar System: Students will be open-notebook tested on the following information:

• 8 Planets order from the sun (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)
  
• Pluto - dwarf planet
• Planets order according to size (smallest to largest)
  
• Terrestrial planets (first 4 from the sun), Gas Giants (last 4)
  
• Characteristics of Earth, Sun and Moon
• Earth's Seasons
• Phases of the Moon
• Rotation, Revolution, Orbit
  
• History of Solar System Beliefs (Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Aristotle)
• Contribution of NASA Apollo missions
  

SOL 4.3

The student will investigate and understand the characteristics of electricity. Key concepts include

a)     conductors and insulators;

b)    basic circuits (open/closed, parallel/series);

c)     static electricity;

d)    the ability of electrical energy to be transformed into heat, light, and mechanical energy;

e)    simple electromagnets and magnetism; and

Unit 3 - Force, Motion and Energy - begins November 15

Please use the following study guide and notes in the student's notebook to review for this unit.  It may be helpful to make flashcards with the words and definitions.

SOL 4.2 Energy Study Guide

Energy:            the ability to do work.

Force:             any push or pull of matter that causes an object to move, stop, or change speed or direction.

Friction:           the resistance to motion created by two objects moving against each other.

Inertia:            unless acted on by a force, objects in motion tend to stay in motion and objects at rest remain at rest.

Kinetic energy:    the energy of movement. Example: Ball rolling DOWN a hill, roller coaster going down a large hill.

Motion:            movement. 

Potential energy: stored energy.  Example: Ball sitting at the TOP of a hill, roller coaster at the TOP of a large hill.

Speed:             describes how fast an object is moving

Distance an object travels - measured with a ruler/meter stick/yard stick (length)

Students will need to be able to look at bar graphs and line plots to make inferences from the data shown on the graph.