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3rd and 4th Grade Science
2007-2008 Science Curriculum Cycle:  Life Science

Classification of Living and Non-living Things
  •     The Five Kingdoms of Life: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Monera, Protista
  •     Herbivores, Omnivores, Carnivores and Their Teeth
  •     Cells Under a Microscope: Bacteria, Amoeba, Algae, Plant Cells, Cheek Cells
  •     Plant Species
  •     Growth: Planning a Garden and Watching it Grow; Factors that Affect Growth
  •     Animals: Mating behavior, Birth and Care of Young in Whale Species
  •     Humans Bones and How They Grow    
Ecology
  •     Food Chains and Food Webs
  •     Producers, Consumers, Decomposers
  •     Investigation: Where Do Mushrooms Grow?
  •     Living and Non-living Parts of an Ecosystem
  •     The Suns Energy in Ecosystems
  •     What Plants do for Animals
  •     What Animals do for Plants
  •     Fungus is a Great Recycler!
  •     Surviving Environmental Change: Survival of the Fittest
      
The Ever Changing Planet Earth
  •     Rocks and Minerals -  Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic Rocks
  •    ID of Minerals with Table of Diagnostic Properties
  •    Quartz, Calcite, Feldspar, Mica, Hornblende
    Shaping the Earths Surface (Weathering, Transport, Deposition)
  •         Waves, Wind, Water, Ice
  •         Slow and Rapid Changes
  •         Erosion, Landslides, Volcanoes, Earthquakes
  •         What Breaks Rocks
  •        Freezing, Thawing, Roots
  •        Moving Water Shapes the Earth: Exploring Outside
  •         Pebbles, Sand, Silt and Mud in our Creeks
 
 
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