Standard+A+Science+Connections


 * Post Standard A Resources here.**
 * Each resource will include a title, link to the resource, a short description of the resource, and grade level(s)**.

Content Standard: Students in Wisconsin will understand that there are unifying themes: systems, order, organization, and interactions; evidence, models, and explanations; constancy, change, and measurement; evolution, equilibrium, and energy; form and function among scientific disciplines. These themes relate and interconnect the Wisconsin science standards to one another. Each theme is further defined in the [|Science Glossary]. [|Food Chains]
 * Christy Elmer**
 * Standard A:** Science Connections
 * Title:** Food Chain
 * Grade Level:** 2nd,3rd, 4th
 * Description:** This site is fun, colorful, and interactive. It helps students understand the food chain, that there is order to it. The students get to learn about herbivores and omnivores. They also learn about decomposers.

Soleyvic Barahona
 * Standard A:** Science Connections
 * Title:** Make a Paper Cup Anemometer (**Weather** Tool)
 * Link:** [|Anemometer-Paper Cup], [|Science Projects-Anemometer], http://www.amazon.com/I-Face-Wind-Science-Play/dp/0688178405.
 * Description:** This web page has ideas for activities you can do in science classrooms grades k-8. The theme that students will be studying is the weather, and they will measure the speed of the wind by building an Anemometer. There is an activity that is explained step by step for students to build their own Anemometer. The second website has a different way of building an Anemometer. While teaching students about weather tools you can read the book "I Face the wind" to introduce the lesson and the theme
 * Grade Level:** 2nd grade but it could be used in other grades too.
 * Connection to the Standard:** According to Wisconsin Standard A.4.4, when studying science-related problems, decide which of the science themes are important. If students are learning about the weather they will understand that there are important themes within that unit that they will learn about.

//Katie Grady// //**Standard A**////: Science Connections// //**Title:**// //First School.WS Preschool Activities and Crafts// //**Link:**// //[|Weather] [|Seasons] ([] and [])// //**Grade Level**////: Pre-K/K// //**Description:**// //This website has links to age appropriate coloring pages, crafts, and activities that relate to the theme of weather. Children can do a hands-on activity with a cotton ball and pan of cold water. I have also included a second link to the section on seasons, where children can learn to connect the various weather patterns into the corresponding season, and look for changes or abnormal patterns.// //**Connection to the Standard:**// //According to Wisconsin State Standard// A.4.5, when studying a science-related problem, students will decide what changes over time are occurring or have occurred. Through graphing the weather, understanding the differences between rain, snow, sleet, wind, hot, cold, sunny, and cloudy, etc, children are learning about how weather patterns and seasons change.


 * Title:** //Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding,// by Bernard J. Nebel


 * Link: [|http://www.amazon.com/Building-Foundations-Scientific-Understanding-Curriculum/dp/1432706101/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342027834&sr=8-1]**


 * Description:** The book, //Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding// by Bernard J. Nebel provides an integrated curriculum for students grades K through 2. The lessons are inquiry based and are presented as incremental steps which build logically toward an understanding a scientific concepts such as the nature of matter, and life science. Furthermore each lesson explicitly addresses unifying themes in science and is aligned with the National Science Education Standards.


 * Grade levels:** The book is designed for students in Kindergarten through 2nd grade, but the lessons could easily be adapted for older students.

Clare Dahl
 * Standard:** A. Science Connections
 * Title:** Science Connections Are Everywhere: Using Children’s Literature to Connect Science in All Content Areas
 * Link: [|Science Connections]**http://www.ciser.ttu.edu/outreach/NSTA_Handouts/Tops%20and%20Bottoms.pdf
 * Description:** Two lesson plans that use children’s books (Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens, Lucas and his Loco Beans by Ramona Moreno) to ask and answer science related questions. Both lessons touch on many parts of science observations, data collections, conclusions and encourage lots of writing though journals and graphic organizers.
 * Grades:** K-3

Annie Partington The NASA website is filled with a lot of great information. In particular I found some videos that would be great to show a classroom when teaching about the planets of the solar system. There are videos or musicals depicting the solar system. This aligns with Content Standard A because it talks about systems, in particular the solar system and how it all works together.
 * Standard:** A Science Connections
 * Title:** Space School Musical
 * Link:** [|Solar System]
 * Description:**
 * Grades: ** It would probably work from first grade up to sixth just because it’s “catchy”.