Understand how systems work by examining objects that work as a system.

Investigate the properties and origins of soil by making and recording observations on different soil samples.

Using images and or dinosaur models to identify key features of each dinosaur and being able to explain how that attribute is an adaptation to their environment.

Examine how heat and pressure affect rocks by making observations of crayon shavings that are placed under heat and pressure.

 Using buried cookie bits as an anology for one method paleontologists use in finding and sorting potential fossils.

Learn to identify minerals according to physical properties by using color, luster, Moh’s hardness scale, the streak test and an identification sheet.

Investigate how scientific knowledge changes due to differing viewpoints and additional data by making observations and developing scientific explanations on a set of footprints.