5th Grade Workshops

Workshop: Matter of Fact

 **Newly Correlated to Hawaii State Standards**

Grade: 5 & 6

Total Duration: 1 hour 15 min

Vocabulary: Atoms, Chemical Change, Chemistry, Matter, Molecules, Physical Change, Polymers 

Description/Educational Objectives: Introduces children to the structure of atoms and molecules. Students learn how atoms combine to create molecules, and will examine molecular bonding using models. They will learn the difference between physical and chemical changes through fun hands-on activities, and experiment with the chemical reactions resulting in the creation of Mad Science Putty!

Hawaii State Education Standards:

Benchmark SC.5.1.1 - Identify the variables in scientific investigations and recognize the importance of controlling variables in scientific experiments.

Benchmark SC.5.1.2 - Formulate and defend conclusions based on evidence.

Benchmark SC.5.2.1 - Use models and/or simulations to represent and investigate features of objects, events, and processes in the real world.

Benchmark SC.5.6.2 - Describe ways that heat can be transferred from one object to another.

Workshop: Planets & Moons

 **Newly Correlated to Hawaii State Standards**

Grade: K-6

Total Duration: 60 minutes

Vocabulary: Solar Eclipse, Lunar Eclipse, Orbit, Solar System, Planet, Moon 

Description/Educational Objectives: In this class, students set off on a voyage to discover the Solar System. Students impersonate the planets to compare their sizes and distances from the Sun, recreate a solar and lunar eclipse, and become particles on a voyage into a planet's core. Students build planetary puzzle cubes to take home, these cubes can be put together to form images that are out of this world!

Hawaii State Education Standards:

Benchmark SC.5.8.1 - Describe the relationship (size and distance) of Earth to other components in the solar system.

Benchmark SC.5.8.3 - Explain that the planets orbit the sun and that the moon orbits the Earth.

Benchmark SC.5.8.4 - Demonstrate that day and night are caused by the rotation of the Earth on its axis.

Workshop: Space Technology

 **Newly Correlated to Hawaii State Standards**

Grade: K-6

Total Duration: 60 min

Vocabulary: Reflection, Radar,  Technology, Refraction,

Description/Educational Objectives: Students will be introduced to space related technologies, including those used on Earth to aid space exploration and the very scientific principles of space travel. Engaging demonstrations and exciting hands-on activities will make this investigation of Space Technology a fun learning experience.

Hawaii State Education Standards:

Benchmark SC.5.6.3 - Compare what happens to light when it is reflected, refracted, and absorbed.

Benchmark SC.5.8.2 - Describe examples of what astronomers have discovered using telescopes.

Workshop: Black & Blue Oceans

Grade: 3-6

Total Duration: 60 minutes

Vocabulary: Absorbents, Aquatic, Biodegradation, Booms, Contamination, Density, Dilute, Disaster, Dispersant, Ecosystem, Environment, Experiment, Evaporate, Food Chain, Hypothesis, Marine, Observation, Oil, Oil Spill, Pollution, Preening, Slick, Surface Tension, Waterproof.

Description/Educational Objectives: Icky, sticky oil can make quite a mess when it ends up where it shouldn’t. Discover what damage it causes when it accidentally enters our environment, and devise a way to clean it up!

Hawaii State Education Standards: 

Living the values, attitudes, and commitments of the inquiring mind

Using Unifying Concepts and Themes

• Students use concepts and themes such as system, change, scale and model to help them explain the natural world.

Doing Safety

• Students demonstrate the importance of safety skills in all activities.

Relating the Nature of Technology to Science

• Students use problem solving process to address current issues involving human adaptation in the environment

Interdependence of Science, Technology, and Society

“Malama I Ka’ Aina”: Sustainability

• Students make decisions needed to sustain life on Earth now and for future generations by considering the limited resources and fragile environment conditions.

Understanding Scientific Inquiry & Character of Scientific Knowledge

• Students explain the process of how scientific knowledge is generated by scientific inquiry, and be able to critique a scientific investigation. 

National Science Education Standards:

Science as Inquiry

• Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
• Understanding about scientific inquiry

Science and Technology

• Understanding about science and technology

Science in Personal and Social Perspectives

• Changes in environments

History and Nature of Science

• Science as a human endeavor

Workshop: Mineral Mania

Grade: 3-6

Total Duration: 60 minutes

Vocabulary: Classification, Core, Crust, Crystals, Formation, Geology, Igneous, Magma, Mantle, Metamorphic, Minerals, Mohs Scale of Hardness, Obsidian, Sedimentary, Volcano 

Description/Educational Objectives: Discover Planet Earth! Peek beneath its crust, and uncover what it’s made of! Recreate the process of rock formation and learn how scientists classify and identify rocks and minerals. Experience the thrill of panning for gems and even take a rock home that will enable you to grow gems of your own!  

HAWAII STATE EDUCATION STANDARDS:

Living the values, attitudes, and commitments of the inquiring mind 

Understanding Scientific Inquiry & Character of Scientific Knowledge

§  Students explain the process of how scientific knowledge is generated by scientific inquiry, and be able to critique a scientific investigation. 

Forces that Shape the Earth

• Students analyze the scientific view of how the Earth’s surface is formed 

NATIONAL SCIENCE EDUCATION STANDARDS:

Science as Inquiry

• Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
• Understanding about scientific inquiry

Physical Science

• Properties of objects and materials

Earth & Space Science

• Properties of earth materials

Science & Technology

• Understanding about science and technology

History & Nature of Science

• Science as a human endeavor

Workshop: Electricity