Caldwell County Schools

Grade level/standard

Name of kit

Contents of kit

Additional info

8th

8.L.3-Understandd how organisms interact with and respond to the biotic and abiotic components of their environment.

Pull up a Chair for Dinner

Yarn

15 rulers

Bag of gravel

26 clear plastic cups

13 spoons

26 brown paper bags

1 bandanna

1 bag of soil

15 hand lenses

2 clear glasses

1 spray bottle

1 bag of grass seed

10 handouts of the

1 bag rye seed

3 small condiment cups with lids

2 title headings

1 timer

 riverbank environment

1 bag of colored strips

 1 bag of rubberbands

Food web game cards

Black Bear Biology Student Data Page (25)

dessert food chain student pages (25)

woodland food chain student pages (25)

Lesson 6 Data pages (25)

Lesson 2 Record Sheet (25)

Setting up an aquarium and terrarium

8th

8.E.1- Understand the hydrosphere and the impact of humans on the local systems and the effects of the hydrosphere on humans.

A Drop in My Drink

Beads

String

2 liter bottles

2 bottle caps

Sand

Gravel

Hand lenses

Sponge

Drinking straws

Jars

Small containers

Pipe insulation

Modeling clay

Eye droppers

Spray bottles

Balloons

Dish detergent

Salt

Sulfur Powder

Silicon Powder

Twine/ Rope 

Water Cycle Bracelets

Water Cycle Column

8th

Weigh To Go

• Iron Nails
• Hydrogen Peroxide
• Copper WireThermometer
• Pic of Margarine
• Marshmallows( 2 bags colored &1 bags white)
• Salt 2- boxes
• Toothpicks
• Sugar
• Construction Paper
• 8- Petri dish
• 1-long lighter
• 2- Sheets Foil
• 1- Plastic grocery bag
• Chalk
• Flavored gelatin
• 7- Laminated Print out Compound Clipart
• Baking soda
• Vinegar
• Sugar Cubes
• Soda Crackers

8th

Changes Through Time

Notebook

• Cd
• 2- Crazy Traits Kit
• Whale Skeleton cards
• DNA cards
• Horse evolution cards
• Plastic cups
• Nylon string
• Colored sand
• Soil
• Shells
• Wood skewers
• Pipe cleaners
• Adding Machine paper

8th

Tye That Bonds

• Clear Plastic Cups - 80
• Coffee Filters
• Ziploc Bags - Quart
• Ziploc Bags- Sandwich
• 4.5 oz Lemon Juice
• 4 oz Yeast
• 12.6 oz Dawn Detergent
• Balloons
• Rubber Bands
• Plastic Spoons
• 16 oz Vinegar
• 16 oz Hydrogen Peroxide
• Atomic Models in Petri Dishes
• Paper Bags
• 3 x 5 Index Cards
• Mystery Boxes - 15
• 16 oz Baking Soda
• White Card Stock
• 1 qt Epsom Salt
• 1 Set Element Model Cutouts
• 15 Candles
• Matches
• Calcium Carbonate
• Litmus Paper (red and blue)
• 15 Bags of Counting Blocks (1 bag various colors per group

8th

Achoo...What's In the Air Around You?

Notebook; 1

• Activity Cards- From Coffee to Carbon Cards; 10 sets
• Nutient Agar- 1 (7.5 grams) envelope
• Petri dishes- 20
• Sterile swabs- 1 bag
• Sterile Water- Needed but not supplied
• 10 sheets A1 chart paper- Needed for Sneeze Zone Activity but not supplied
• Sugar paper-(AKA: construction paper)- 30 squares
• Red, Blue, and Black pens- 1 of each
• Tissues- ziploc baggie
• Spray bottles- 8
• Golves- ziploc baggie
• food coloring (color various: green or yellow)- 1
• 30 Tubes (28 filled with HCl: unaffected, 2 filled with NaOH: affected pink dot on bottom) Need student to pour ¼ into cups (enough for multiple classes of 30)
• Phenol red indicator-1
• Small Cups
• 1 large bag of M&M’s- Optional activity not provided
• 1 small bag of skittles- Optional activity not provided
• 1 Black Light 60 watt bulb (please put in lamp for glo germ activity) PSC can provide lamp if needed contact Misty Barrett to request lamp
• 1 tube Glo Germ (use sparingly)
• Kids Discover Microbes-1
• Kids Discover- Germs

8th

Power Up!

• 14- Spoons
• 7- sets of Dominoes
• 7- Toy Cars
• 7- Wind-up toys
• 1- roll of String
• Masking Tape
• Bag of Coffee stirrer sticks
• 7- Balloons
• 14- Rubber Bands
• 14- Plastic Cups
• 6- Alka-Seltzer tablets
• 4- Boxes of large paper clips
• 30- Straws
• Medicine Dropper

7^th

7.E.1-Understand how the cycling of matter (water and gases) in and out of the atmosphere relates to the Earth’s atmosphere, weather, and climate and effects of the atmosphere on humans.

Me in Meteorology

• 10- Balloons
• Small Floating object Ex. cork
• Modeling Clay
• 2- Medicine Droppers
• 1- roll String
• Thread
• Tape
• 4- Clear pie pans
• Straws
• Lamp 100 watt light bulb
• Beach Ball
• Jar w/ lid
• 2- Thermometers
• Cotton Balls
• Small Dish
• 1 box Food Coloring
• 30- Clear 6-8 oz Cups
• Wax
• Metal Knitting needle
• Candle and Matches
• Aluminum foil
• Apron

Making a weather station

Climate Interactions

Convection and Radiation

Global Forces

Exploring El Nino and El Nina

Atmosphere Stations

7^th

7.P.1- Understand motion, the effects of forces on motion and the graphical representations of motion

What Goes Up Must Come Down

• Note book
• CD: Movie Clip PBS kids/Motion
• Power Point/ Motion
• 7-Stop watches
• Graph paper
• 7-Class set: Interpretation Cards
• 7-Wind Up toys
• 7- toy cars
• 7 set-5 Different size Balls
• 7-Sand paper
• 7-Wax Paper
• 7-Bubble wrap
• 1-Tape roll

Walking Lab

Rolling Derby

Downhill Racers

6th

What's Eating You?

• CD: BrainPop: Food Chains
• Elodea
• 1 roll of Yarn or string
• 15-Test tubes
• Chalk
• Poster board
• Adding Tape
• KIDS DISCOVER: Ecology

6th

Air You Breathe

• Notebook
• Kids Discover: Flowers
• Lima Beans
• Mustard Seeds
• Tape
• Index Cards
• Hand Lens
• Cd: Magic School Bus
• Preserved Flowers or Provide Your Own Flowers for Dissections
• 6 Plants of Same Size or Wisconsin Fast Plants (Depending on time of Year)

6th

Beyond Blastoff!

• CD
• KIDS DISCOVER: Space Exploration
• KIDS DISCOVER: Planets
• Thick cardboard or card stock
• 10-rulers
• 7-compass
• Poster board -instead of (flat piece of wood)
• protractors
• flash light

5^th

5.P.1- Understand force, motion and the relationship between them

The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree

• Forces Make Things Move by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley- 1
• Matchbox Cars- 7
• Ruler-5
• Aluminum Foil- Baggie
• Wax Paper- Baggie
• Soccer Ball or Kick Ball-1
• Wooden Blocks-10
• Bubble Wrap-2-5 pieces
• Sand Paper- 1-2 sheets
• Bag of marbles
• Toilet Paper Rolls- 20

Movement of a matchbox car on a variety of different surfaces

Forces and Friction lab

5^th

5.E.1-Understand weather patterns and phenomena, making connections to the weather in a particular place and time

Oh Say Can You Say What’s the Weather Today

• Flash drive with videos and powerpoint
• Weather Prompts (Poncho, Umbrella, Sunglasses)
• CD: Vivalidi The Four Seasons
• Notebook

Difference between weather and climate

Be a Meteorologist

5^th

5.L.2- Understand the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystems

Oh the Places We Go

• Plastic Microphone
• Terriums
• Action Boards
• Pill Bugs
• CD: Powerpoint: How DO Plants and Animals Need Each Other
• Pom Poms
• Pipe Cleaners
• Card Stock
• Baggies (Who Am I Picture Cards) Class Set
• Baggies (Structure and Function Pics/ Descriptions) Class Sets
• Interdepence Cards: Class Set
• String
• Measuring Tape
• Book: The Pinic by Chris Baines or One Small Place in a Tree by Barbara Brenner 

Build a living ecosystem for the class

Exploring different ecosystems of the world

Ecosystem Webquest

Forest Fire Management in ecosystems

5th

Body Language

• 1Disc with The Body’s Highways and MSB Flexes its Muscles
• 1 Spool of yarn
• Class set of hierarchy cards
• 10 sets of pictures of living things (4 pictures per set)
• 10 Lego person models
• 3 Balls (different types)
• 10 sets of respiratory cards
• 10 sets of respiratory puzzle
• 10 Circulatory Game Boards
• 10 sets of Circulatory Game Cards
• 1 Iodine bottle (to be shared by the class)
• 1 Dropper
• 1 Sleeve of crackers
• 1 sandwich bag
• 1 quart sized bag
• 1 Piece of clear tubing
• 1 Leg of panty hose
• 1 Knee high nylon
• 2 Paper cups
• 1 Roll of duct tape

5th

The Heat is On!

• Laminated Heat transfer scenes
• 15- Aluminum pie pans 4 in
• 15- clothespins
• 1- bag Chocolate chips
• 15- tea lite candles
• 1- box matches
• 1- shoe box
• 1- large piece aluminum foil
• 1- small poster board
• 1- Masking tape
• 5- Skewers wooden
• 28- 6-8 oz cups
• 7- clear plastic containers
• 1- bottle food coloring
• 7- plastic thermometers
• 7- plastic spoons
• 7- metal spoons
• 7- wood spoons
• 7- jars
• 7- lg. styrofoam cups
• 7- paper cups
• 7- bubble wrap
• 1- pk. card stock
• 1- pk. aluminum foil
• news print

5th

Where Did You Get Those Genes?

• Notebook
• CD: Relaxing Music and Video of trained animal
• Powerpoint My Favorite Animals
• Class set -10 Behavior Cards/Pics
• Class set -10 Habitat Game Cards

5th

Matter Mattes

1- “Matter” KIDS DISCOVER Magazine

• 30- brown paper bags
• 1- pk index cards lined
• 1- book Who sank the boat? by Pamela Allen
• 30- film canisters(  7 w/ steel wool filings,7 w/sand 7 w/ gravel, 7 empty, teachers fill with water or leave empty air)
• 1- bag 7 lg. paper clips
• 7- cotton swabs
• 7- sweetener pks.
• 3- cups
• 3- styrofoam bowls
• 1- Bag of rice
• 1- measuring  spoon set
• 1- Aluminum pie pan
• * please ask PE coach for 2 hula hoops for Venn diagram

4^th

4.L.1- Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats

Oh Beehave!

Rotten Log Kit (you can check this out from PSC since it contains live organisms)

Book:

A Log’s Life by Wendy Pfeffer

Flash drive with videos

Hand Lens- 15 

Rotten Log Lab

Termite Lab

Bee Colony Collapse

4^th

4.E.1- Explain the causes of day and night and the phases of the moon

The Changing Moon

Books:

Somewhere in the World Right Now by Stacey Schuett

The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons

Flashlight

Styrofoam balls (Large and Small)

Lamp

Index Cards

Newsprint 

Day and Night

Sun-Moon-Earth System

3^rd

3.P.1 Understand motion and factors

that affect motion.

Get A Move On

• 10 Plastic Squeeze Bottles
• 10 Plastic Cups
• 10 Various “Move it!” Items (toys, balls, fans, etc.)
• 20 Toy Cars
• 20 Popsicle Sticks
• 20 Binder Clips
• 20 Rubber Bands
• 10 Pencils
• 10 Rectangular Erasers
• Aluminum Foil
• Wax Paper
• Sand Paper
• 10 Foam Balls
• 10 Pieces of Cardboard (for ramps)

Tape

Puff Cup Contest

Cars Rolling Downhill

Why do objects move the way they do?

Friction

Gravity

3^rd

3.L.2 Understand how plants survive

in their environments.

It’s Not Easy Being Green

STC Kit Soil:

Teachers Guide

8 STC Literacy Series™: Soils

Technology  and premium content website access for teachers

24 issues of Rocks Kids Discover

Dual hand lens (30)

Construction paper, white (50)

Hole punch

Clear plastic tray

Wood Stirrers (240)

Paper Tray (15)

8lb bucket red clay

Plastic pipetts (16)

Resalable plastic bags (16)

Crayons (120)

Open Ended plastic tube (45)

Plastic Tube (15)

Tube with cap (75)

Plastic Planting cup (30)

Cucumber seeds (75)

Cotton Balls (300)

3X5 index cards (100)

1 oz plastic cup (100)

Plastic Spoon (3)

Tongue Depressor (2)

Wooden Craft stick (30)

Wooden Dowel Rod

Coffee Filter (40)

Sand 5 lb Bag

Large Plastic Funnel (15)

Carolina Humus 11 lb bag

STC kit Plants:

Teacher’s Guide

15 student investigation guide
8 STC Literacy Series™: Plant Growth and Development

Technology  and premium content website access for teachers

8 issues of Bees Kids Discover

Dual hand lens (30)

Wood stakes (24)

Planter Ring (34)

Plastic Pipets (16)

Paper Tray (30)

Lima Bean Seed

Box of toothpicks

1 oz plastic cups (60)

Wisconsin Fast Plant Seed

Fertilizer

Potting Mix

Quad Planter (32)

Water Tank

Water mat  (3)

Wick (144)

Copper Sulfate Square (3)

Teaspoon (16)

Forceps (15)

Planter Labels (36)

3 oz paper cups (30)

Life Cycle of Plants

Soil/plant growth and development investigation

Germination and Maturation of a plant

3rd

Welcome to Earth Third Rock From the Sun!

• Powerpoint: Third Rock from the Sun
• Handout: Planet Picture Cards (1 set per group)
• Handout: Planet Puzzler (1 per group or 1 for projection)
• Handout: Order Up (1 per group or 1 for projection)
• Handout: Navigating the Solar System Evaluation (1 per student)
• Teacher Resource: Navigating the Solar System KEY
• Handout: Diagram Dilemma Evaluation (1 per student)
• Teacher Resource: Diagram Dilemma KEY
• Teacher Resource: Solar System Sentences (1 for projection)
• Teacher Resource: Comparing Models (1 to project)
• Handout: Thinking About Models (1 per student)
• Handout: Orbit Order Cubes (1 per group)
• Handout: Sun Earth Moon System (1 per pair; cut in half)
• Handout: Astronomers and Astronauts: Scientists Who Made a Difference (1 per student)
• Teacher Resource: Performance Indicator Instructions KEY
• 7- Planet Picture Cards sets
• 1- Yellow plastic ball 14 cm, 5 ½
• 7- Gallon bags w/ paper plates, tape (transparent)
• poppy seeds (0.5 to 0.7 mm, see Advance Preparation, 2 per group)
• blue candy sprinkles (1.3 mm, see Advance Preparation,1 per group)
• white candy sprinkles (1.2 mm, see Advance Preparation,1 per group)
• popcorn kernels, small beads, or large peppercorns (5 mm, 2 per group)
• gum balls, jaw breakers, or small marbles (12 mm, 1 per group)
• gum balls, jaw breakers, or small marbles (14mm, 1 per group)
• Adding machine paper
• colored chalk
• colored sticker dots
• unsharpened pencils
• Flashlight
• index cards
• yarn
• 7- Ordit Order Cube sets
• 14-Newsprint/Butcher paper 12”x 18”
• Black pepper 3.8 cm
• 10- craft sticks
• 30- brass fasteners
• 7- resealable plastic bags
• Moving model of Sun/Earth/Moon system

2^nd

2.L.1 Understand animal life cycles.

Animals Have Needs too

• Book- Animal Coverings by by Luana K. and Wagner Mitten
• Book-Move! by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
• Book- Look What Mouths Can Do by D. M. Souza
• 1- pk. index cards
• Magazines of animals and young
• Color pictures of animals
• Example of Food Chain 
• 1- Lady Bug kit
• Magazines showing animals 
• Color pictures of animals
• Example of Food Chain 

How do you resemble your parents?

How do other organisms resemble their parents?

Learned Behaviors

Life Cycle Stages

How do organisms depend on their environment?

2^nd

2.E.1 Understand patterns of weather

and factors that affect weather.

Flash, Crash, Rumble and Roll

• 5 Globe Cloud Charts 
• Book: Flash, Crash, Rumble and Roll by Franklyn M. Branley
•  1 Large Class Demonstration Thermometer
• 1 Rain Guage
• 1 Windsock or Weather  Vane
• String (6inch piece for each group)
• 10 Wide mouth jars (1 per group)
• Borax (3tbsp per jar)
• 10 Small wooden rods or pencils
• 5 Thermometers
• 1 Pack of construction paper
• 2 Rolls of crepe paper
• 1 Roll of yarn

Explore temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, wind conditions.

How does location affect temperature?

1st

Down and Dirty!

• CD: MSB Inside Earth and Blows its Top
• Video: Importance of Water
• Video: What are rock?
• Rock sets: Shiny, Smooth, Rough, Flat, Colorful( different sizes)
• Kool Aid pk

• Jell-o box
• Tea bag
• Hot Coco pk.
• Animal Pics: ex. ( rabbit, Human, Ants, Fox, Tarantula)
• Cat litter bag
• Toothpaste
• Facial Mask

1st

Pulling Together, Pushing Apart

• Heavy cord -6 meters( 20 inches)
• Lg. Wooden bead
• Wood Block 1”x4”x9”
• Class set- Buttons & string
• Donut shaped magnets
• Card board( card stock)
• Thread

1st

Do Plants and Animals Need Each Other?

Kinder

Roll With It

• Book- “ Where” by Susan Ring
• 1- Cd The Number Crew: Fit Club
• 7- small balls
• 7-  Hot Wheels
• 7- wood blocks (flat side)
• 1- pk. post it notes
• 10 yds. yarn (chains)
• 1- pk. note cards (seat)
• 30- unsharp pencils (bar)

Kinder

Circles of Life

• 1- “Heydiddle” Poster
• 1- “Hey diddle” rhyme and pictures

• 1- Living and nonliving chart for students
• 15- sandwich bags
• 15- note cards blank unlined
• 3- same plant (observation)
• 2 kind fish( guppy, goldfish)
• 2 kind snail (land, aquatic)
• 2 kind earthworm ( night, red) in containers
• 1-fish aquarium (plastic)
• 1- terrarium
• fish food
• Order Foss 2 by 2 animal kit
• eloda
• 1-fish tunnel
• oatmeal
• 15- sm.plastic cups (aka. bug boxes)
• 1- baggie of misc. objects( ex.  
• buttons, blocks)
• 7- bag assorted Shells (10)

Kinder

What's The Weather?

• Post it notes (1 per student, plus 100)
• 11 Weather Stamps
• Date stamp
• Stamp Pad
• 4” x 6” fabric (30)
• Cardstock (10 sheets)
• Poster of “Its Hot” by Shell Silvertein
• Poster of “Who Has Seen the Wind” by Christina Rossetti
• Books:  Weather Words by Gail Gibbons, City Storms by Mary Jessie Parker
• 7 Plastic  Cups
• 7 Aluminum Pie Pans
• Water Based Paints