1. Interactive Notebooks
Name: ____________________________________________

2. Unit 1: Water Cycle & Weather
Date:
W.E.E. Journal
Unit 1: Water Cycle & Weather
ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS:
Some events in nature have a repeating pattern. The weather changes some from day to day, but things such as temperature and rain (or snow) tend to be high, low, or medium in the same months every year.
Water can be a liquid or a solid and can go back and forth from one form to the other. If water is turned into ice and then the ice is allowed to melt, the amount of water is the same as it was before freezing.
Water left in an open container disappears, but water in a closed container does not disappear.
Weather is a daily occurrence, climate occurs over an extended period of time.
Different temperatures affect water by changing its states from a solid to a liquid to a gas.
A thermometer, rain gauge, barometer, wind vane, and anemometer are all instruments used to track and predict weather.
Reflection questions…
What are you curious about?
What would you like to test?
What was the main idea?
What are the important details to remember?
How does the article relate to your life?
What don’t you understand?
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Do we drink the same water that was on earth a million years ago?
What form does water take on our earth and what happens to it on a daily basis?
What happens to my glass of ice water when I take it outside on a hot day?
How does water change from a gas to a liquid to a solid?
How are clouds formed?
What is the water cycle?
What are forms of precipitation?
How do meteorologists use the following weather instruments: rain gauge, thermometer, anemometer, barometer, and wind vane?
How do we distinguish between weather and climate?
What if _______________________________ didn’t use weather symbols on a map?
How do we know if a weather forecast is accurate?
Where does water go in a drought?

3. Date: W.E.E. Journal Unit 2: Solar System Reflection questions…
ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS
The patterns of stars in the sky stay the same, although they appear to move across the sky nightly, and different stars can be seen in different seasons (Project 2061, p. 63).
Telescopes magnify the appearance of some distant objects in the sky, including the moon and the planets. The number of stars that can be seen through telescopes is dramatically greater than can be seen by the unaided eye (Project 2061, p. 63).
Planets change their positions against the background of stars (Project 2061, p. 63).
The earth is one of several planets that orbit the sun, and the moon orbits the earth (Project 2061, p. 63).
Stars are like the sun, some being smaller and some larger, but so far away that they look like points of light (Project 2061, p. 63).
Reflection questions…
What are you curious about?
What would you like to test?
What was the main idea?
What are the important details to remember?
How does the article relate to your life?
What don’t you understand?
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. What is a star?
2. How are stars alike and different from each other?
3. How does the sun compare to other stars in the night sky?
4. How are constellations alike and different?
5. Why are some constellations observed during some seasons, but not during other seasons?
6. How are planets and stars alike and different in relation to appearance, position, and number in the night sky?
7. Why are planets seen in different locations in the night sky throughout the year?
8. How can technology be used to observe distant objects in the sky?
9. Why are different phases of the moon observed throughout the month? What is the sequence of those phases?
10. What are the relative sizes of the planets in our solar system?
11. What is the relative order of the planets from the sun in our solar system?

4. Date: W.E.E. Journal Unit 3: Light and Sound Reflection questions…
ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS
Light is a form of energy and light rays normally travel in straight lines.
Light can reflect (bounce) off some objects like mirrors, refract (bend) through some objects like lenses, and be absorbed by some objects like soil.
Some objects allow all the light to travel through them (transparent), some allow some of the light to travel through (translucent), and others prevent light from traveling through them (opaque).
Lenses are used to bend light in useful ways.
Convex lenses cause light to converge (bend in) after light passes through them and concave lenses cause light to diverge (bend out) after light passes through them.
Lenses are used in many important tools such as microscopes, telescope, binoculars, and cameras. A prism bends light into different parts.
Prisms can separate white light into the different colors that make it up because each color of light bends differently when it passes through a prism.
Sound is produced by vibrating objects.
Vibrating objects produce sound waves that travel through the air (and other substances).
The faster an object vibrates the more sound waves it produces per second and the higher the pitch of the sound.
Reflection questions…
What are you curious about?
What would you like to test?
What was the main idea?
What are the important details to remember?
How does the article relate to your life?
What don’t you understand?
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
What are the characteristics of light and how does it normally behave?
How can we describe the movement of light as it passes through different substances?
How do lenses bend light in specific ways in order to do accomplish useful jobs?
How to different organisms and objects vibrate in order to produce sounds?
What is the relationship between the speed at which an object vibrates and the pitch of the sound that is produced?

5. Date: W.E.E. Journal Unit 4: Force and Motion Reflection questions…
ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS
The position and motion of an object can be described accurately.
An object’s position can be described only by locating it relative to another question.
A force is simply a push or pull (usually on an object).
Forces can cause objects to start moving, stop moving, or change direction.
An object’s size and the amount of force exerted on an object affect its speed and motion. Gravity is the earth’s pull on things.
Things on or near the earth are pulled toward it by the earth's gravity.
Simple machines are tools that help us do work.
Simple machines make work easier for us changing the amount of force (pushing or pulling) needed to do certain kinds of work.
Reflection questions…
What are you curious about?
What would you like to test?
What was the main idea?
What are the important details to remember?
How does the article relate to your life?
What don’t you understand?
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
How can forces be used to make objects move, change direction, or stop?
How is the motion of an object related to the size of the object and the amount of force that is applied to the object?
What is gravity and how does it affect things on the earth?
How do simple machines make work easier for people?

6. Science Illustrations and Observations
Date:
Science Illustrations and Observations
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Teacher feedback…

7. W.E.E. Wonder Explore Explain
E.Q.
I Wonder…
Notes – What did you do today?
What did I learn today?
Must use any new vocabulary you learned today.
What next…Answer or refer to a reflection and enduring question here.