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Grade 5 Science Topics Voicethread Project
Students will create a teaching tool using Voicethread to discuss and review the "top 5" most important things they need to know about the topics listed below. What's a Voicethread anyway? 
 * Steps** :
 * 1) Students explore links to learn about the five topics
 * 2) Partner Groups research and take notes on one of the topics
 * 3) Partner Groups write script, find pictures, and create Voicethread


 * Projects will include:**
 * 1) Notes/Script
 * 2) 5 vocabulary words/captions
 * 3) 5 pictures
 * 4) Voice comments

1) Butterflies

 * **Vocabulary:** Parts of a Butterfly, Butterfly Life Cycle, Metamorphasis, Migration, Adaptation


 * **Information:**
 * 1) Enchanted Learning: Butterflies
 * 2) Butterfly Life Cycle
 * 3) Butterfly Basics
 * 4) Monarch Butterflies Migration

2) E lectricity

 * **Vocabulary:** Electricity, Circuits, Batteries, Conductor, Insulator, Voltage


 * **Information:**
 * 1) How Electricity Works
 * 2) Electricity in Theory
 * 3) Energy, Electricity and Forces
 * 4) Using Electricity

3) Rocks and Minerals

 * **Vocabulary:** Rocks & Minerals, Rock Cycle, Crystal, Color, Lustre, Hardness, Streak


 * **Information:**
 * 1) Rock Cycle Information
 * 2) Rocks & Minerals
 * 3) Rocks for Kids

4) Simple Machines

 * **Vocabulary:** Inclined Plane, Lever, Pulley, Screw, Wedge, Wheel and Axle


 * **Information:**
 * 1) Franklin Institute
 * 2) Understanding Simple Machines
 * 3) Simple Machines Learning Site


 * **Activity for Students:**
 * 1) EdHeads Simple Machines
 * 2) Harcourt School


 * For Teachers: http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/simmach.html **

5) Water Cycle

 * **Vocabulary**: Water Cycle, Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Transpiration, Collection


 * **Information:**
 * 1) Water Cycle Information
 * 2) Water Cycle KidZone
 * 3) Interactive Water Cycle

Voicethread example: http://voicethread.com/library/30/