Week 2  April 7-11   Fluids and Motion

 Assignments: 

• Chapter 19 Buoyancy and Fluids Chapter Review Questions
• Chapter 19 Hands On:  review mass, volume, density, buoyancy with mini experiments and activities.
• Set up on line science note books and wiki pages

Week 3 April 14-18 Fluids and Motion

•  Submarine Challenge:  Students need to build a submersable object that can sink to the bottom, briefly hold its position and then rise to the top.  They will demonstrate their understanding of buoyancy, density, and the relationships  between these concepts and mass/volume.  submarine lab.doc
• Aspect ratio and movement through fluids:  Compare fin size of fish and airplanes for aspect ratio and desired movement of each.   
• Air resistance: design parachutes for objects with varying mass.  Objects must fall at the same rate.

Week 4  April 21-25 Sound and Light

• Nature of Waves: Mini activities and Lab.
• Earthquake waves and measuring intensity
• Electromagnetic Spectrum: mini labs, demonstration of types of light energy
• Visible Light:  Behavior and interactions
• Annotated Slide show

Week 5  April 28-May 2 Sound and Light

•  Sound waves: Behavior and interactions
• Types of sounds in nature
• Measuring sound waves drumming
• Resonance
• Designing your own instrument

Week 6 May 5-May 9 Transfer of Energy

May 8th Spokane Youth Environmental Conference

May 9th No School (Teacher In Service Day)

Week 7  May 12-16 Transfer of Energy

•  Types of Energy Slide Show
• Energy stations (elementary)
• Week 8  May 19-23 Heat and Heat Technology
•  save the ice cube challenge
• energy audit of the school
• climate and weather

Week 9 May 26-30

May 26th No School (Memorial Day)

Week 10 June 2-6

Week 11 June 9-13

Culture Week