Science Foundations: Earth and Space Science - Flexible Schedule

Completed by 11 learners

Ages 5-7

Live Group Class

A semester-long survey of beginning science concepts in earth and space science.

Andrea Lucero-Watje

Average rating:

4.8

Number of reviews:

(292 reviews)

No live video meetings

9 weeks

1-6 learners per class

About Learning Overview Teacher Reviews

What's included

Homework

In addition to watching and responding to the instructional videos, each class will have some sort of homework opportunity for further learning. I will post 2-5 options, and students may choose the assignment that interests them the most. Once their assignment is complete, they should share about it in the classroom. Homework should take less than 30m a week to complete and may include further reading, simple experiments, continued observations, or another relevant option.

Class Experience

US Grade Kindergarten - 1

Do you have a child who loves earth and space science?  This class is a semester-long survey of beginning science concepts in earth and space science and includes all of the earth and space science material from my Science Foundations classes.  Students are not required to have any prior scientific experience.

Schedule:
Week 1 - Gravity
               --What is gravity and what are it's characteristics?
Week 2 - Earth's Rotation
                --Exploration of earth's rotation and how it causes day and night.
Week 3 - Maps
               --Learn how to read and draw maps.
Week 4 - Cardinal Directions
                --Learn the cardinal directions and how to orient oneself in everyday life.
Week 5 - Biomes
                --Weather, climate, and their effect on ecosystems.
Week 6 - Time
                --Relating time to earth's turning.
Week 7 - Seasons
                --Relating the seasons to earth's orbit around the sun.
Week 8 - Gravity 2
                 --Things fall at the same rate.
Week 9 - Rocks and Fossils
                --The process of rock and fossil formation.

**Class Format**
This is a flexible schedule class with NO live meetings.

Monday
              --Prerecorded instructional videos will be posted by 8am (MST) each Monday.  Videos will be 6-13 minutes in length.

Wednesday
              --By Wednesday of each week, each student will need to post in the classroom a short written or video response to the video as well as a picture of the entry they made in their science journal about that weeks topic.

Friday
               --In addition, students will also be required to complete a small homework assignment by Friday.  These assignments will be posted at the same time as the instructional videos on Mondays, so students will have the entire week to work on them.  Don't wait until the last minute!  For more on the homework, see the homework section below.

Other Details

Supply List

Notebook of choice to be used as a science journal.  Please find a journal that plays to their unique needs and/or strengths.  Past students have used art journals with blank pages, standard wide or college ruled spiral notebooks, and primary composition journals in which the top of the page is blank and the bottom has handwriting lined space.  Each of these type of notebooks are widely available and generally cost $1-5.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

External Resources

Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.

Meet the teacher

Andrea Lucero-Watje

Joined July, 2019

4.8

292reviews

Profile

Teacher expertise and credentials

I have six years of experience teaching this material in a co-op/classroom setting and with my own children.  Children are born scientists and I hope to help enkindle that passion for continued scientific learning as they grow older.