Later Elementary School Science Units
Compiled by Imad Fadlallah
September 2003

 

Animal Studies
Unit Plan for Animal Studies

 

Simple Machines
Unit Overview

Unit Plan for Simple Machines

Lesson 1 - Getting Pushed Around

Lesson 2 - The Lever

Lesson 3 - The Inclined Plane

Lesson 4 - Wheels and Pulleys

Lesson 5 - The Wedge and Screw

Lesson 6 - Compound Machines

Lesson 7 - Using Simple Machines

Lesson 8 - Which Simple Machine Will Work?

Lesson 9 - Compound It!

Lesson 10 - Tell About It

 

Magnets and Mixtures
Unit Outline

Unit Plan for Magnets and Mixtures

Lesson 1 - What's Attractive to Magnets?

Lesson 2 - The Poles

Lesson 3 - Need a Little Direction?

Lesson 4 - How Can a Magnet Pull on a Paper Clip Without Touching It?

Lesson 5 - Can a Magnet's Force Pass Through Water?

Lesson 6 - Can a Magnet's Force Pass Through Solid Objects?

Lesson 7 - Solutions and Mixtures

Lesson 8 - Separating Mixtures with the Same Particle Size

Lesson 9 - Demonstrate to the Class

Lesson 10 - What Do We Know, What Can We Show?

 

Looking at Lights and Shadows
Unit Plan for Looking at Light and Shadows

 

Water and Its Ways
Unit Plan for Water and Its Ways

 

Organisms Within Ecosystems
Unit Plan for Organisms Within Ecosystems

Lesson 1 - A Forest Is a Home

Lesson 2 - Learn All About It!

Lesson 3 - Honey, I Shrunk the Kids!

Lesson 4 - Come Live in My Backyard!

Lesson 5 - Building Eco-columns

Lesson 6 - Rabbitat Scramble

Lesson 7 - Adding Animals to Terrariums

Lesson 8 - We're All Connected!

Lesson 9 - Making Aquariums

Lesson 10 - Changes in Ecosystems

 

Energy - Its Forms and Interactions

Unit Plan for Energy - Its Forms and Interactions

 

Forces and Motion
Unit Outline

Unit Plan for Forces and Motion

Lesson 1 - Let's Explore Motion

Lesson 2 - Watch Them Go

Lesson 3 - Push or Pull

Lesson 4 - Ramp Racers

Lesson 5 - Mass and Friction

Lesson 6 - You Rub Me the Wrong Way

Lesson 7 - Round and Round She Goes

Lesson 8 - Zoom, Zoom, Zoom!

Lesson 9 - Which Way Did It Go?

Lesson 10 - Up and Away!

 

The Earth - It Wasn't Always This Way
Unit Plan for The Earth - It Wasn't Always This Way

 

Earth and Moon - Partners in Motion
Unit Plan for Earth and Moon - Partners in Motion

 

Dynamics of an Ecosystem
Unit Plan for Dynamics of an Ecosystem

 

Measuring Up
Unit Plan for Measuring Up

 

Making the Force Be With You
Unit Plan for Making the Force Be With You

 

Now Hear This
Unit Plan for Now Hear This