Name:______

Scientist Packet

Rock Station

What colors did you observe in the rocks?

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Draw a picture of where these rocks could be found in nature.

Soil Station

What colors did you see in the soil?

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Circle the words that describe the soil.

Soft Rough Smooth Purple Smelly Brown

Where in our classroom do we use soil?

Draw a picture of a place you have seen soil.

Sand Station

What was the same about both of the sands?

What was different about the two sands?

Draw a picture of where you can find sand in real life.

Protect the Earth!

Circle the three types of pollution.

AirAnimalWaterLandExercise

Look at all this pollution! Circle the pollution in the picture.

Why is it important to protect our planet?

1.

2.

How Do We Use Plants?

Match the objects on the left with the natural resource they come from on the right.

Name: ______Date: ______

EROSION

Directions: Observe and draw your sugar cube mountain in the beginning, middle, and of the erosion process. Please label the landforms you find in your group bin!

Landform Word Box

Mountain Lake River Ocean Valley Plain
Beginning
100 years later
300 years later
  1. What is erosion?
  1. What types of weather cause erosion?

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EXIT TICKET

Landforms I may know...Landforms I saw in the video...

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Exit Slip

What are the three types of pollution?

1. A ______

2. L ______

3. W ______

Name: ______Date: ______

What I Know / What I Want to Know
(Question) / What I Learned
What I know about rocks:
What I know about recycling: / A question I have about rocks:
A question I have about recycling:

Create Your Own Land!

Directions: below, write the name of your land and draw a picture of it. Make sure to include at least 4 landforms that we just learned about. On the back of your paper, write the names of the landforms that you used. Also, write at least 3 jobs or ways to travel that someone could have if they lived in your land. Remember, certain jobs work better with certain landforms!

Your Land’s Name: ______

What types of landforms are on your land?

  1. ______
  2. ______
  3. ______
  4. ______
  5. ______

What jobs would someone have who lived in your land? How would you travel?

  1. ______
  2. ______
  3. ______
  4. ______
  5. ______

NAME THAT LANDFORM!

Directions: Read the description of the landform and write the name of the landform it matches.

Then, draw a picture of the landform in the box.

  1. I am made up of salt water and am very large. Can you guess who I am?

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  1. I am a long piece of land that sticks out into water. I have water on all of my sides but one. Who am I?

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  1. I am made out of fresh water and have land all around me. Who am I?

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  1. I am a piece of land with water all around me. What landform am I?

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  1. I am a body of water that moves downhill. Can you guess who I am?

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  1. I am the low land between mountains or hills. What is my name?

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  1. I am a piece of land that is mostly flat land. Who am I?

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  1. I am a piece of land that is higher than the rest of the land around me. What landform am I?

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Was this Made With Plants?!

Directions: Look at each object on the left, and decide if it was made with plants. If you think it was, draw a line from the object on the left to the plant it came from on the right. Some of the plants are never used, but all of the objects are used. Once you have finished, on the back of this paper, make a list of 3 objects around the room that come from plants.

OBJECTPLANT

Tree

Peanut Plant

Cotton Plant Lima Bean Plant Tomato Plant

Tree

BREAKING NEWS!

Directions: You are a famous reporter for the Trenton Times. You have just been told that Aliens took away one of the most important natural resources! It’s your job to find out the facts and answer the questions about what happened. Pick one of the 6 types of natural resources (air, sun, water, plants, oil, coal) to take away.

1.Which natural resource is gone? ______

2.Is this natural resource important for humans to stay alive? ______

3.What is going wrong because we don’t have this natural resource anymore? ______

4.Is this a problem for only people? Or are animals affected too? Why?

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What Comes

From Plants?!

ACTIVITY PACKET

Make a list of 5 things you ate this week that come from plants.

Make a list of 5 things around the room that come from plants.

Make a list of 5 items you use that come from trees.

Paper–Making Process Coloring Page

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Plants Word Search

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Word Bank
Blender / Paper
Book / Popcorn
Bread / Pulp
Chop / Renewable
Cotton / Tomato
Ketchup / Tree
Natural Resource / Trunk
Newspaper / Wheat
Notebook / Wood