Newsletter 5th grade science
- 1. 5th Grade Science Human Body Structure and Systems
- 2. Essential/unit/content questions • How are structure and function related in living things? • What are the systems of the human body? • What features of the human body (structure and function) are common to all humans? • How do human body systems function? • How are parts of human body systems independent, and interdependent?
- 3. Objectives for unit • Students will learn: • Structure and Function in Living things • Systems, Dependence, Inter- and Interdependence • unicellular • multicellular • transport • Circulatory System • heart, blood, vessels • Respiratory System • nose, trachea, lungs • Skeletal System • bones • Muscular System • muscles • Digestive System • mouth, esophagus, stomach, intestines
- 4. Standards that will be met: • Plants and animals have structures for respiration, digestion, waste disposal, and transport of materials. As a basis for understanding this concept: a. Students know many multicellular organisms have specialized structures to support the transport of materials. • Students know how blood circulates through the heart chambers, lungs, and body and how carbon dioxide (CO2) and oxygen (O2) are exchanged in the lungs and tissues. • Students know the sequential steps of digestion and the roles of teeth and the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and colon in the function of the digestive system. • Students know the role of the kidney in removing cellular waste from blood and converting it into urine, which is stored in the bladder. • Students know how sugar, water, and minerals are transported in a vascular plant. • Students know plants use carbon dioxide (CO2) and energy from sunlight to build molecules of sugar and release oxygen. • Students know plant and animal cells break down sugar to obtain energy, a process resulting in carbon dioxide (CO ) and water (respiration).
- 5. Role of Teacher Teachers are carriers of either positive or negative behavior toward students. The reason why the first years of school are so critical is because kids learn the base of their educational life. I believe that teachers must love their career in order for them to pass enthusiasm, to assists, and to provide a warm environment to the students.
- 6. Role of students Students should be ACTIVE participants in their education. By active, this means that students should contribute to classroom discussions by not only answering direct questions posed by the teacher, but answers questions posed by their peers. This again, is not all that the student should do. Students should feel free to ask questions, or express their own ideas about a subject, not only to their teacher, but also their peers. This allow students to construct their own knowledge about their learning, and apply if to their education.
- 7. Role of parents • The parent has a huge role in child's school life. In addition to attend parents meetings, they should get involved in school activities or they can support their child in his good or best moments . The encouragement, the motivation or homework assistance can be also considered parents' involvement in school. The parents have to know the child's teacher and to communicate with him or her. The parents have to attend not only the first school parents meeting, but to visit the teacher during school year ,or to call her in order to get information about child's school progress.
- 8. Benefits of the unit As we communicate and share our explanations, inquiry helps us connect our prior understanding to new experiences, modify and accommodate our previously held beliefs and conceptual models, and construct new knowledge. In constructing newly formed knowledge, students are generally cycled back into the processes and pathways of inquiry with new questions and discrepancies to investigate.
- 9. Project Based Learning Project-based learning is a comprehensive approach to classroom teaching and learning that is designed to engage students in investigation of authentic problems. In this article, we present an argument for why projects have the potential to help people learn; indicate factors in project design that affect motivation and thought; examine difficulties that students and teachers may encounter with projects; and describe how technology can support students and teachers as they work on projects, so that motivation and thought are sustained.
- 10. Summary of Unit • At this level, children can begin to view the body as a system, in which parts do things for other parts and for the organism as a whole. Through the use of an online interactive activity, children learn about the concept of separate components working together to build a body system. In addition, this lesson focuses on activities to help students learn that body systems work together to build the functioning human body. This lesson could be used in conjunction with instruction on the human body and/or systems. • In order to be able to do this lesson, students should understand that most items are composed of different parts and that an item may not work if its parts are missing. Also, they should know that an assembly of parts can perform functions that the single parts cannot perform alone. More specific to the human body, students at this level should realize that the human body has parts that help it seek and take in food when it feels hunger. They should understand that the brain is the part of the body that enables humans to think and it communicates with the other parts of the body. • This prerequisite knowledge should help elementary-school students understand that parts within a system usually influence one another and that a system may not work as well, or at all, if a part is missing, broken or worn out, or misconnected. In addition, they should be able to make correlations about systems in general to systems of the human body. Specific to the human body, students should understand the following: by eating food, humans obtain energy and materials for body repair and growth; by breathing, humans take in the oxygen they need to live; by communicating with all parts of the body, the brain understands what is going on at different parts throughout the body; and the skeleton provides the body with structure and protection.
- 11. Contact Information: • LaShundra Walker • Kent Jones • Taylor Bannister • cat250group2@gmail.cpm • 378-555-8719