14. demonstrate an awareness of the natural and built environment through hands-on investigations, observations, questions, and representations of their findings

Students will use observing and sorting & classifying skills to learn that dinosaurs are extinct animals that share common characteristics.

Learn about different weather instruments that meteorologists use to measure weather.

Plants have specific needs - light, air, water, nutrients, and space - to survive and reproduce.

Different members of a species can have different traits. You can see this in a species found at your local pet store - guppies!

Explore how walking on soil changes how water soaks into the ground and why that matters to gardeners and farmers.

5 images of cumulus clouds that are white, puffy clouds with a flat base at mid level and are often associated with fair weather

10 images of some snowflake crystals and some winter scenes with snow

5 images of stratus clouds that cover a wide horizontal layer in the sky at low level and are often associated with rain or drizzle

10 images of some tools such as rakes, spades, shears and lawn mowers that were designed for use in gardening

15 images of various instruments such as rain gauges, wind vanes and weather satellites used to inform us about the weather

10 images showing some scenes with coniferous and deciduous trees in the fall or autumn season