School Calendar

Days

Topic

Resources/ Assessments

August 2007

X

2

3

1-2

Unity & Diversity

6

7

8

9

10

3-7

Cells (6 days) August 3^rd-Aug.10

SC-05-3.4.2, 3.4.3

Mitosis & Meiosis, Structure and functions of cells, unicellular versus Multi-cellular

13

14

15

16

17

8-12

Body Systems (10 days) Aug 13^th- Aug 24^th

3.4.1,

Identify and describe various body systems

20

21

22

23

24

13-17

27

28

29

30

31

18-22

Ecosystems (19 days) Aug. 27^th-Sept. 21st

SC-05-3.5.1, 3.5.2, 4.7.1, 4.7.2

Predator/ Prey, Adaptations, Diversity, Internal & External Changes, Producers, Consumers, Decomposers, Population, Food Chains

September

X

4

5

6

7

23-26

10

11

12

13

14

27-31

17

18

19

20

21

32-36

24

25

26

27

28

37-41

Earth & Universe

October

Earth Surface (8 days) Sept 24^th- Oct. 3rd

SC-05-2.3.1, 2.3.2, 3.5.1

Weathering, erosion, deposition, Layers of the earth, plate movement, continental drift, fossil

1

2

3

X

X

42-44

X

X

X

X

X

15

16

17

18

19

45-49

Rock & Minerals (5 days) Oct 15^th- Oct 19th

SC-05-1.1.1,

Properties of. Different types of rock

22

23

24

25

26

50-54

Weather & Climate (5 days) Oct 22^nd-26th

SC-05-2.3.4, SC-05-2.31, SC-05-2.3.3

Global Warming, climate, weather patterns, local & prevailing winds, water cycle

29

30

31

55-57

Oceans (9 days) Oct 29^th- Nov 9th

SC-05-4.7.1, 1.2.2, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.4, 4.7.1

Salinity, features of the ocean floor, How waves move, tides, currents, ecosystem, How ocean waves shape the shore line, technology to explain the ocean

November

1

2

58-59

5

X

7

8

9

60-63

12

13

14

15

16

64-68

Solar System (12 days) Nov 12-Nov. 30

SC-05-1.2.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.5, 4.6.2

Lunar & solar eclipses, Moon phases, time zones, seasons, space exploration, solar energy, stars, types of galaxies, comets

19

20

X

X

X

69-70

26

27

28

29

30

71-75

December

3

4

5

6

7

76-80

Matter (18 days) Dec 3- Jan 11th

SC-05-1.1.1, 2.3.2, 4.6.1, 4.6.5,

Physical & chemical properties/changes, Mixtures & solutions, melting & boiling points, atoms & elements, periodic table

10

11

12

13

14

81-85

X

X

X

X

X

School Calendar

Days

Topic

Resources/ Assessments

January 2008

X

2

3

4

86-88

7

8

9

10

11

89-93

14

15

16

17

18

94-98

Energy Transformation

Forces / Energy (5 days) Jan 14^th-Jan 18^th

^Work/effort

SC-05-1.2.1, 1.2.2, 4.6.1

How forces act in our everyday lives, balance/unbalance forces, Measuring force, machines, Kinetic & potential energy

X

22

23

24

25

99-102

Motion (14 days) Jan 22^nd-Feb 8th

SC-05- 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 4.6.1,

Positions, speed, velocity, acceleration, momentum, Newton’s Laws of Motion

28

29

30

31

103-106

February

1

107

4

5

6

7

8

108-112

11

12

13

14

15

113-117

Electricity/Magnetism (5 days) Jan 11^th- Jan 15^th

SC-05-4.6.3, 4.6.5

Circuits, electromagnets, poles

X

19

20

21

22

118-121

Heat (4 days) Jan 19^th-22^nd

SC-05-3.4.2, 4.6.3, 4.6.5

Potential heat energy in food (chemical energy), transferring thermal energy

25

26

27

28

29

122-126

Light & Sound (5 days) Jan 25^th- Jan 29^th

SC-05-4.6.3, 4.6.4

March

3

4

5

6

7

127-131

Energy in Everyday Life (15 days) March 3^rd- March 21^st

SC-05-4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.6.3. 4.6.4, 4.6.5

Hydroelectric, nuclear energy, wind energy, solar energy, fossil fuel

10

11

12

13

14

132-136

17