TOOLS TO GET INFORMATION
"When the only tool you have in your tool box is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.”
Essential Understandings
Essential Questions
What are the tools people use to get information
Standards
Connecticut Curriculum Standards and Assessment Expectations: Grades 6 - 8, Science
C INQ.1 Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigation
C INQ.5 Use appropriate tools and techniques to make observations and gather data
C INQ.6 Use mathematical operations to analyze and interpret data.
C INQ.7 Identify and present relationships between variables in appropriate graphs
C INQ.8 Draw conclusions and identify sources of error
C INQ.9 Provide explanations to investigated problems or questions
C INQ.10 communicate about science in different formats, using relevant science vocabulary, supporting evidence and clear logic.
Next Generation Science Standards, Science and Engineering Practices, April 2013
Practice 4 Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Practice 5 Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking
Practice 8 Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
Lesson Objectives
PowerPoint Presentations
Introduction to Common Tools we use to get Information
Temperature - how to read a thermometer
Elapsed Time
Mass
Length
Class Assignments
Putting the Arts in STEAM!
Reading a Triple-Beam Balance (Do at least 5, see Ohaus link below)
Worksheets:
Practice worksheets: reading a thermometer
Practice worksheets: temperature conversion (Celsius and Fahrenheit)
Practice worksheets elapsed time
Elapsed Time Hands On Activity Using a Stopwatch
Mass PPT worksheet
Triple Beam Balance ISN lab sheet
MIx and Match Mass Challenge - optional
Practice worksheets: converting milligrams, grams and kilograms
Practice worksheets: converting pounds, ounces and tons
Measuring Length Hands On Activity Using a Ruler
Practice worksheets: measuring lines
Links for Media Used in Class
Royals - Karaoke
Ohaus Online Practice for using a Triple-Beam Balance (choose practice weighing)
Archimedes Principle
Other Cool Stuff Related to This Unit
Measurement - Elapsed Time
Measurement Games 6-8
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Old Units of Length - A brief history of how humans have measured length
Measuring Volume using a graduated cylinder
I am your density - Back to the Future
- Rulers are used to measure length
- Thermometers are used to measure temperature
- Scales are used to measure mass
- Clocks/Stopwatches are used to measure time/elapsed time
- Graphs tell a story using independent and dependent variables
Essential Questions
What are the tools people use to get information
Standards
Connecticut Curriculum Standards and Assessment Expectations: Grades 6 - 8, Science
C INQ.1 Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigation
C INQ.5 Use appropriate tools and techniques to make observations and gather data
C INQ.6 Use mathematical operations to analyze and interpret data.
C INQ.7 Identify and present relationships between variables in appropriate graphs
C INQ.8 Draw conclusions and identify sources of error
C INQ.9 Provide explanations to investigated problems or questions
C INQ.10 communicate about science in different formats, using relevant science vocabulary, supporting evidence and clear logic.
Next Generation Science Standards, Science and Engineering Practices, April 2013
Practice 4 Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Practice 5 Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking
Practice 8 Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
Lesson Objectives
- Measure length using a ruler, metric and US units
- Measure temperature using a thermometer: metric, US and Kelvin units
- Identify four meaningful temperatures in Fahrenheit and Celsius.
- Explain the scientific significance of 0 Kelvin
- Measure mass using a digital scale and a triple-beam balance
- Measure time using a clock
- Measure elapsed time using a stopwatch
- Given a graph, identify the independent and dependent variables, draw conclusions about the relationship between the independent and dependent variables, and communicate the story of the graph
PowerPoint Presentations
Introduction to Common Tools we use to get Information
Temperature - how to read a thermometer
Elapsed Time
Mass
Length
Class Assignments
Putting the Arts in STEAM!
Reading a Triple-Beam Balance (Do at least 5, see Ohaus link below)
Worksheets:
Practice worksheets: reading a thermometer
Practice worksheets: temperature conversion (Celsius and Fahrenheit)
Practice worksheets elapsed time
Elapsed Time Hands On Activity Using a Stopwatch
Mass PPT worksheet
Triple Beam Balance ISN lab sheet
MIx and Match Mass Challenge - optional
Practice worksheets: converting milligrams, grams and kilograms
Practice worksheets: converting pounds, ounces and tons
Measuring Length Hands On Activity Using a Ruler
Practice worksheets: measuring lines
Links for Media Used in Class
Royals - Karaoke
Ohaus Online Practice for using a Triple-Beam Balance (choose practice weighing)
Archimedes Principle
Other Cool Stuff Related to This Unit
Measurement - Elapsed Time
Measurement Games 6-8
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Old Units of Length - A brief history of how humans have measured length
Measuring Volume using a graduated cylinder
I am your density - Back to the Future