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General Course Information and Notes
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Instructional Practices
Teaching from a range of complex text is optimized when teachers in all subject areas implement the following strategies on a routine basis:
1. Ensuring wide reading from complex text that varies in length.
2. Making close reading and rereading of texts central to lessons.
3. Emphasizing text-specific complex questions, and cognitively complex tasks, reinforce focus on the text and cultivate independence.
4. Emphasizing students supporting answers based upon evidence from the text.
5. Providing extensive research and writing opportunities (claims and evidence).
Science and Engineering Practices
- Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering).
- Developing and using models.
- Planning and carrying out investigations.
- Analyzing and interpreting data.
- Using mathematics, information and computer technology, and computational thinking.
- Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering).
- Engaging in argument from evidence.
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information.
English Language Development (ELD) Standards Special Notes Section:
Teachers are required to provide listening, speaking, reading and writing instruction that allows English language learners (ELL) to communicate information, ideas and concepts for academic success in the content area of Science. For the given level of English language proficiency and with visual, graphic, or interactive support, students will interact with grade level words, expressions, sentences and discourse to process or produce language necessary for academic success The ELD standard should specify a relevant content area concept or topic of study chosen by curriculum developers and teachers which maximizes an ELL’s need for communication and social skills. To access an ELL supporting document which delineates performance definitions and descriptors, please click on the following link: https://cpalmsmediaprod.blob.core.windows.net/uploads/docs/standards/eld/sc.pdf.
For additional information on the development and implementation of the ELD standards, please contact the Bureau of Student Achievement through Language Acquisition at sala@fldoe.org.
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Student Resources
Original Student Tutorials
Use your imagination to experience what it may have been like to be a member of Ponce de Leon's crew as they arrived on the shores of Florida for the first time. Make observations and discover the origin of Florida's name in this video.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Help Tallula record observations of moving objects at her local playground in this interactive science tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn to differentiate between living and nonliving things and their characteristics in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Keep written and pictorial records of investigations in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn about various slow changes affecting Earth's landscape including weathering and erosion, drought and mountain formation in this interactive science tutorial.
This tutorial is included in a two-part series. Click to open Earth: Fast Changes.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn about various fast changes affecting Earth's landscape including volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes, landslides, flooding and human impact in this interactive science tutorial.
This tutorial is included in a two-part series. Click to open Earth: Slow Changes.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn about the offspring of plants and animals, make observations of physical features of parents and new babies, and identify variation between plants and animals at the CPALMS Zoo in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Make observations of the plants, animals and environment in the waters of Australia's Kangaroo Island.
This interactive tutorial is part 3 of 3. Click below to explore other habitats on Kangaroo Island.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Make observations of the plants, animals and overall environment in the woodlands of Australia's Kangaroo Island.
This interactive tutorial is part 1 of 3. Click below to explore other habitats on Kangaroo Island.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Make observations of the plants, animals and environment along the coastline of Australia's Kangaroo Island.
This interactive tutorial is part 1 of 3. Click below to explore other habitats on Kangaroo Island.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn how germs that make people sick can spread and why doctors might ask you to learn from home even if you don’t feel sick with this interactive tutorial
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn about magnification, how it works, and different types of magnifiers with this interactive tutorial!
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Make and test predictions to see if different items sink or float in water in this interactive tutorial.
This is Part 4 in a four-part series about sorting.
- Click HERE to open Sorting Part 2: Weight
- Click HERE to open Sorting Part 3: Temperature
- Click HERE to open Sorting Part 4: Sinking and Floating
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Let's explore the features of Earth surface in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn all about temperature and use temperature to sort different types of food in this interactive tutorial.
This is Part 3 in a four-part series about sorting.
- Click HERE to open Sorting Part 2: Weight
- Click HERE to open Sorting Part 3: Temperature
- Click HERE to open Sorting Part 4: Sinking and Floating
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn about weight and use weight to sort different types of sports balls.
This is Part 2 in a four-part series about sorting.
- Click HERE to open Sorting Part 2: Weight
- Click HERE to open Sorting Part 3: Temperature
- Click HERE to open Sorting Part 4: Sinking and Floating
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Sort bugs and other critters by their different attributes, including size, shape, color, and texture, in this interactive tutorial.
This is Part 1 in a four-part series about sorting.
- Sorting Part 1: Size, Shape, Color, and Texture (see the tutorial below)
- Click HERE to open Sorting Part 3: Temperature
- Click HERE to open Sorting Part 4: Sinking and Floating
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Look at the effect gravity has on objects as you complete this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Looks at the different ways things can move in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Look at how the Sun is helpful and harmful in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Explore stars in outer space (including our own Sun) in this interactive tutorial. You'll learn what they're made of, how many there are, and how magnifiers can help us see them.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Look at a plant and what each part does as you complete this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Explore water and its uses in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn how to change the motion of an object by applying pushing and pulling forces using a variety of toys.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Learn how to organize data in three categories as well as represent and interpret the data in this interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Identify key details as you answer questions about informational text in this interactive tutorial. Join Sam as he explores the seashore and answers who, what, where, and when questions about sea stars, sea urchins, hermit crabs, horseshoe crabs, and other sea-related topics.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Problem-Solving Tasks
The purpose of this task is for students to measure something that interests them (namely themselves) by laying multiple copies of a shorter object that represents the length unit end to end. This task provides students an opportunity to discuss the need to be careful when measuring as it is very likely that some of them will get incorrect comparisons of their leg length with their partner's leg length.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
The purpose of this task is to help students learn how to take measurements.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
Video/Audio/Animation
This video segment samples the diversity of feeding habits among some of the world's creatures. Different animals eat different things through different mechanisms.
Type: Video/Audio/Animation
Virtual Manipulatives
Students use this interactive tool to explore the connections between data sets and their representations in charts and graphs. Enter data in a table (1 to 6 columns, unlimited rows), and preview or print bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, and pictographs. Students can select which set(s) of data to display in each graph, and compare the effects of different representations of the same data. Instructions and exploration questions are provided using the expandable "+" signs above the tool.
Type: Virtual Manipulative
This resource is four cartoons for students to learn about using a life jacket as an aspect of water safety.
Type: Virtual Manipulative
In this activity, students can create and view a histogram using existing data sets or original data entered. Students can adjust the interval size using a slider bar, and they can also adjust the other scales on the graph. This activity allows students to explore histograms as a way to represent data as well as the concepts of mean, standard deviation, and scale. This activity includes supplemental materials, including background information about the topics covered, a description of how to use the application, and exploration questions for use with the java applet.
Type: Virtual Manipulative
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