 Workshop: Matter of Fact
**Newly Correlated to Hawaii State Standards**
Grade: 5 & 6
Total Duration: 60 minutes
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.6.1.1 - Formulate a testable hypothesis that can be answered through a controlled experiment.
Benchmark SC.6.1.2 - Use appropriate tools, equipment, and techniques safely to collect, display, and analyze data.
Benchmark SC.6.6.5 - Explain how matter can change physical or chemical forms, but the total amount of matter remains constant.
Benchmark SC.6.6.8 - Recognize changes that indicate that a chemical reaction has taken place.
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
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
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
 Grade: 3-6
Total Duration: 60 minutes
Vocabulary: Circuit, Conductor, Electricity, Electron, Insulator, Parallel Circuit, Series Circuit
Description/Educational Objectives: Don’t insulate yourself from this electrifying class! Visit the circuit circus and discover its positives and negatives. Apply your knowledge and build your own electric fan!
Hawaii State Education Standards:
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
Physical Science
- Light, heat, electricity, and magnetism
Science & Technology
- Understanding about science and technology
History & Nature of Science
- Light, heat, electricity, and magnetism
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