Hands-On Life Science Activities For Grades K-6

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ISBN: 9780787978655 | 0787978655
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Copyright: 3/24/2006

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This is the second edition of Marvin N. Tolman's bestselling book Hands-On Life Science Activities for Grades K-6. Like all the books in The Science Problem-Solving Curriculum Library series, this revised edition offers compelling activities that help teach students thinking and reasoning skills along with basic science concepts and facts. The book's activities follow the discovery/inquiry approach and encourage students to analyze, synthesize, and infer based on their own hands-on experiences. This new edition includes an expanded "Teacher Information" section, inquiry-based models and complex cooperative learning projects using materials found around the home. Many of the activities easily become great science fair ideas, as well as lessons and activities that correlate with national standards grid.

About the Author

xix

About the Library

How to Use This Book

xxi

Correlation with National Standards Grid

xxxvii

Key to Icons

xxxix

Listing of Activities by Topic

xli

Section One: Living Through Adaptation

To the Teacher

(2)

Correlation with National Standards

(1)

Activity 1.1: What Is Adaptation?

(2)

Activity 1.2: How Do Adaptations Affect Where Animals Live?

(3)

Activity 1.3: Why Are Feathers Special?

(1)

Activity 1.4: What Purposes Can Feathers Serve?

(2)

Activity 1.5: Can You Make a Feather?

(2)

Activity 1.6: How Can We Be Tricked by Color?

(1)

Activity 1.7: How Is Color Used by Living Things?

(2)

Activity 1.8: What Happens When the Camouflage Is Gone?

(2)

Activity 1.9: What Happens to Camouflage When the Environment Changes?

(3)

Activity 1.10: How Do Birds Adapt to Eating?

(2)

Activity 1.11: What Are Some Other Eating Adaptations?

(2)

Activity 1.12: What Are Human Teeth Like?

(2)

Activity 1.13: How Important Is Your Thumb?

(2)

Activity 1.14: How Do Animals Move?

(3)

Activity 1.15: How Do Some Animals Communicate?

(2)

Activity 1.16: How Do Seasons Affect Animal Adaptations?

(2)

Activity 1.17: How Do Animals Adapt to Seasonal Change?

(2)

Activity 1.18: Can You Design a Better Bird?

(11)

Animal Adaptations Word Searches

(3)

Do You Recall?

(3)

Section Two: Animals

To the Teacher

(2)

Correlation with National Standards

(1)

Activity 2.1: Who Are the New Members of Our Class?

(3)

Activity 2.2: How Can We Keep Our Pets Healthy?

(3)

Activity 2.3: How Many Pets Can You Find?

(1)

Activity 2.4: How Many Other Pets Can You Find?

(2)

Activity 2.5: What Kind of Pet Would You Like to Own?

(1)

Activity 2.6: What Can Hair Tell You?

(2)

Activity 2.7: How Many Play Animals Can You Find?

(1)

Activity 2.8: How Can You Make a New Animal for a Funny Zoo?

(2)

Activity 2.9: How Can You Make a Bony Animal?

(3)

Activity 2.10: What Can Footprints Tell Us?

(1)

Activity 2.11: What More Can Footprints Tell Us?

(3)

Activity 2.12: What Clues Can Help Us Read Tracks?

(2)

Activity 2.13: What Animals Live Around You?

(2)

Activity 2.14: What Do You Need in Order to Study a Nature Square?

(3)

Activity 2.15: How Can a Chart Help Us Make Observations?

(1)

Activity 2.16: What Equipment Can Help Us Study Our Nature Squares?

(3)

Activity 2.17: How Can We Report Our Findings?

(3)

Activity 2.18: How Can We Attract Wild Birds?

(2)

Activity 2.19: What Is a Bird?

(3)

Activity 2.20: How Can You Make a Birdhouse?

(3)

Activity 2.21: What Do We Need in Order to Keep Pets in an Aquarium?

(3)

Activity 2.22: How Can We Keep Small Animals in Our Classroom?

(3)

Activity 2.23: How Do Earthworms Live?

100

(2)

Activity 2.24: Why Is the Snail So Unusual?

102

(2)

Activity 2.25: What Organisms Live Around Us That Are Too Tiny to See?

104

(2)

Activity 2.26: Is It Alive or Not?

106

(3)

Activity 2.27: Is It Living, Once-Living, or Nonliving?

109

(9)

Animals Word Searches

111

(4)

Section Three: Growing and Changing: Animal Life Cycles

To the Teacher

115

(2)

Correlation with National Standards

117

(1)

Activity 3.1: What Is Growing Up?

118

(1)

Activity 3.2: How Much Do People Change?

119

(2)

Activity 3.3: How Does Growing Up Begin?

121

(2)

Activity 3.4: What Is a Chicken Egg Really Like?

123

(3)

Activity 3.5: What Are Some Other Animals That Hatch from Eggs?

126

(2)

Activity 3.6: How Can You Hatch Eggs in the Classroom?

128

(3)

Activity 3.7: What Is a Tadpole?

131

(2)

Activity 3.8: What Is a Good Environment for Tadpoles?

133

(3)

Activity 3.9: Where Do Butterflies Come From?

136

(4)

Activity 3.10: What Is Wormy?

140

(2)

Activity 3.11: How Long Do Animals Live?

142

(10)

Growing and Changing Word Searches

144

(3)

Do You Recall?

147

(2)

Section Four: Plants and Seeds

To the Teacher

149

(2)

Correlation with National Standards

151

(1)

Activity 4.1: What Plant Is This?

152

(2)

Activity 4.2: How Do Seeds Begin to Grow?

154

(2)

Activity 4.3: What Happens to a Growing Plant If It Has No Light?

156

(4)

Activity 4.4: How Do Seeds Travel?

160

(3)

Activity 4.5: How Can Plants Grow Without Seeds?

163

(2)

Activity 4.6: What Is Another Way to Grow Plants Without Seeds?

165

(2)

Activity 4.7: What Can You Do with Plants That Become Too Big for Their Containers?

167

(2)

Activity 4.8: How Do Containers Make Plants More Interesting?

169

(2)

Activity 4.9: What Is a Terrarium?

171

(2)

Activity 4.10: What Do Plants Need in Order to Grow?

173

(2)

Activity 4.11: How Does Water Travel in a Plant?

175

(4)

Activity 4.12: How Do Plants Respond to Light?

179

(4)

Activity 4.13: How Do Plants Respond to Gravity?

183

(5)

Activity 4.14: How Can We Make a Visual Record of Plant Growth?

188

(3)

Activity 4.15: What Are the Parts of Some Common Plants?

191

(2)

Activity 4.16: Why Are Leaves Important?

193

(3)

Activity 4.17: How Are Leaves Alike and How Are They Different?

196

(2)

Activity 4.18: How Can You Preserve the Leaves You Collect?

198

(2)

Activity 4.19: How Can You Collect Bark Without Damaging the Tree?

200

(2)

Activity 4.20: How Do Roots Grow and Develop?

202

(2)

Activity 4.21: What Are the Parts of a Flower?

204

(2)

Activity 4.22: How Can You Make a ``Dandy'' Tasting Salad?

206

(2)

Activity 4.23: What Parts of Plants Do You Like to Eat?

208

(3)

Activity 4.24: Can We Make a Whole Meal with Just Plants?

211

(2)

Activity 4.25: How Can We Know What Kind of Tree It Is?

213

(2)

Activity 4.26: If We Can't Climb It, How Can We Measure It?

215

(4)

Activity 4.27: Is This a Plant?

219

(1)

Activity 4.28: What Is This Strange Growth?

220

(1)

Activity 4.29: What Does Your Strange Organism Grow On?

221

(2)

Activity 4.30: What Have We Learned About Mold?

223

(11)

Plants and Seeds Word Searches

225

(3)

Do You Recall?

228

(3)

Section Five: Body Systems

To the Teacher

231

(2)

Correlation with National Standards

233

(1)

Activity 5.1: How Do Fingerprints Compare?

234

(2)

Activity 5.2: How Big Is the Average Person Your Age?

236

(2)

Activity 5.3: How Can You See Your Pulse?

238

(1)

Activity 5.4: What Is a Blood-Pressure Cuff?

239

(2)

Activity 5.5: How Do the Body Systems Work Together?

241

(1)

Activity 5.6: What Is Your Lung Capacity?

242

(2)

Activity 5.7: How Does an Apple Skin Protect the Apple? (and How Does Our Skin Protect Us?)

244

(3)

Activity 5.8: How Does the Skin Help Regulate Body Temperature?

247

(3)

Activity 5.9: What Do Our Bones Do for Us?

250

(1)

Activity 5.10: Are Human Bones Large or Small?

251

(2)

Activity 5.11: How Many Bones Can You Count?

253

(2)

Activity 5.12: How Can Doctors Tell Whether a Bone Is Broken and Where?

255

(2)

Activity 5.13: How Is a Splint Applied to a Broken Bone?

257

(1)

Activity 5.14: How Are Bones Connected at a Joint?

258

(2)

Activity 5.15: What Are Tendons, and How Do They Work?

260

(2)

Activity 5.16: What Is Bone Like Without the Mineral Material?

262

(1)

Activity 5.17: How Many Muscles Can You Identify?

263

(2)

Activity 5.18: How Do Voluntary and Involuntary Muscles Differ?

265

(2)

Activity 5.19: What Is Muscle Sense?

267

(1)

Activity 5.20: How Fast Are Your Reactions?

268

(2)

Activity 5.21: How Fast Do Your Nails Grow?

270

(3)

Activity 5.22: What Does Hair Look Like Under a Microscope?

273

(11)

Body Systems Word Searches

275

(3)

Do You Recall?

278

(3)

Section Six: The Five Senses

To the Teacher

281

(2)

Correlation with National Standards

283

(1)

Activity 6.1: In What Ways Do We Depend on Our Eyes?

284

(1)

Activity 6.2: How Well Can You Judge Depth with One Eye?

285

(2)

Activity 6.3: Which Is Your Dominant Eye?

287

(1)

Activity 6.4: How Well Do You Remember What You See?

288

(2)

Activity 6.5: Why Do We Need Five Senses?

290

(2)

Activity 6.6: How Do Our Eyes Help Us ``Hear''?

292

(2)

Activity 6.7: How Does a Picture Stimulate Your Senses?

294

(1)

Activity 6.8: What Happens to the Iris as Light Changes?

295

(2)

Activity 6.9: How Is the Eye Like a Camera Diaphragm?

297

(2)

Activity 6.10: How Can You See Through a Solid Object?

299

(1)

Activity 6.11: What Is a Blind Spot?

300

(2)

Activity 6.12: How Effective Is Your Side Vision?

302

(2)

Activity 6.13: Can You Save the Fish?

304

(2)

Activity 6.14: How Can Our Eyes Make Colors Seem to Change?

306

(2)

Activity 6.15: How Well Can You See in the Dark?

308

(2)

Activity 6.16: How Fast Can You Judge What You See and Take Appropriate Action?

310

(4)

Activity 6.17: How Fast Do Odors Travel?

314

(1)

Activity 6.18: How Long Can You Retain a Smell?

315

(2)

Activity 6.19: What Foods Can Your Nose Identify?

317

(2)

Activity 6.20: How Is Taste Affected by Smell?

319

(2)

Activity 6.21: How Can You Tell Whether Taste Is Affected by Smell?

321

(2)

Activity 6.22: How Can You Match Things Without Seeing Them?

323

(2)

Activity 6.23: What Sounds Do Your Ears Recognize?

325

(1)

Activity 6.24: What Sounds Do You Hear in Paper?

326

(1)

Activity 6.25: How Well Do You Know Your Classmates' Voices?

327

(1)

Activity 6.26: How Well Can Your Ears Alone Tell You What's Happening?

328

(2)

Activity 6.27: How Much Can You ``See'' with Your Ears?

330

(1)

Activity 6.28: What Is a Stethoscope?

331

(2)

Activity 6.29: What Differences in Taste Do People Have?

333

(2)

Activity 6.30: Which Part of the Tongue Is Most Sensitive to Taste?

335

(4)

Activity 6.31: How Can We Classify Foods by Taste?

339

(1)

Activity 6.32: How Does a Sudden Change in Temperature Affect Us?

340

(1)

Activity 6.33: How Well Can You ``Observe'' with Your Sense of Touch?

341

(2)

Activity 6.34: How Much Can You ``See'' with Your Hands?

343

(2)

Activity 6.35: Where Is Your Sense of Touch Most Sensitive?

345

(2)

Activity 6.36: What Parts of Your Body Can Feel Things Best?

347

(2)

Activity 6.37: What Is Warm and What Is Cold?

349

(2)

Activity 6.38: How Many Touch Words Can You Find?

351

(11)

Five Senses Word Searches

353

(3)

Do You Recall?

356

(3)

Section Seven: Health and Nutrition

To the Teacher

359

(2)

Correlation with National Standards

361

(1)

Activity 7.1: What Are We Made Of?

362

(2)

Activity 7.2: Why Do We Wash Our Hands Before Handling Food?

364

(2)

Activity 7.3: Why Are the Basic Food Groups Important?

366

(2)

Activity 7.4: What Are the Most Common and the Most Popular Foods?

368

(4)

Activity 7.5: How Well Balanced Is Your Diet?

372

(2)

Activity 7.6: How Can We Test Foods for Protein?

374

(2)

Activity 7.7: Which Foods Contain Sugar?

376

(2)

Activity 7.8: Which Foods Contain Starch?

378

(2)

Activity 7.9: Which Foods Contain Fat?

380

(2)

Activity 7.10: How Do People Count Calories?

382

(1)

Activity 7.11: How Many Calories Do You Use?

383

(3)

Activity 7.12: How Are Teeth Shaped for Their Task?

386

(2)

Activity 7.13: What Does Tooth Decay Look Like?

388

(2)

Activity 7.14: Why Are Healthy Teeth Important to You?

390

(2)

Activity 7.15: How Can You Clean Your Teeth Best?

392

Health and Nutrition Word Searches

394

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Hands-On Life Science Activities For Grades K-6

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