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Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
Attention Texas 5th grade educators! Let the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History support you as you prepare your students for the elementary science STAAR. Sign up for one of the following programs, which support concepts tested on the STAAR.
Program fee: $140 and includes a kit of materials needed for the hands-on experiments.
Times below don’t fit your schedule or have questions? Contact distancelearning@fwmsh.org to discuss special requests.
Reporting Category 1: Matter and Energy
All About Matter
TEKS covered: 5.5A, 5.5B, 3.5C
Combine bubbles, eyedroppers, air in different states and you have an incredibly interactive program with staff from the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. We will focus on the unusual characteristics of water, use process skills to observe and ask questions using bubbles, and play with components of air in solid, liquid and gaseous states. Your students actively participate with staff throughout the program as they learn more about the interaction between different states of matter.
Reporting Category 2: Force, Motion and Energy
STEM in Action: Scribblebots
TEKS covered: 5.6B and 3.6B
The perfect combination of science, engineering and technology, scribblebots are motorized machines that move in chaotic ways, leaving interesting artistic patterns in their wake. Collaborative teams of students will move through the Engineering Design Process by making simple circuits and offset motors, then test and manipulate variables. The result is an interactive robot that demonstrates the scientific concepts of electricity, force and motion with a wildly creative outcome.
Reporting Category 3: Earth and Space
Investigations in Weathering, Erosion and Depositions
TEKS covered: 5.7B, 3.7B
Get ready to shake it up and move mountains! Your students will experience the processes of weathering, erosion and deposition as they use earth materials to gain a better understanding of earth science. They will participate in engaging activities that will allow them to distinguish between each of these processes.
Upcoming dates & times for Investigations in Weathering, Erosion and Depositions
Reporting Category 4: Organisms and Environments
Adaptation Exploration: Owls
TEKS covered: 5.10A and 5.10B
Owls are remarkable birds and serve as an incredible model for your students learn about form, function, and adaptations! Leishawn Spotted Bear will make these concepts come alive using interactive activities and the Museum’s outstanding bird collection. Young students (K-2nd) will focus on the function of different body parts and bird characteristics, while older students (3rd-5th) will use body parts and systems to discuss adaptations and to compare/contrast birds with other types of animals. Programs features an owl pellet dissection for groups of students.
Upcoming dates & times for Adaptation Exploration: Owls (only available by request at this time)
Eggs Everywhere
TEKS covered: 5.9A, 5.10A, 5.10B
Eggs are one of nature's most perfect designs and are an incredible way to learn about life cycles, adaptations and survival. We'll use simple materials like chicken eggs to bring out your student's observation skills and specimens from our teaching collection to hone their ability to predict. Throughout the session, the purpose of eggs and the different animals that lay eggs will be emphasized. Program includes a kit with materials needed for chicken egg dissection, along with other goodies for your classroom.
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