Encourage Thinking, Evoke Curiosity and Engage Your Students

 I thought I'd share this;

Encourage Thinking, Evoke Curiosity and Engage Your Students Science4Us wants students to have the full science experience so they can truly feel and think like scientists. Our inquiry-based K-2 curriculum is structured around the 5E instructional model.  This model is designed to evoke interest and curiosity in all learners, encourage them to build understanding from what they already know and then add to that with new ideas. This instructional process begins with the first of the 5 Es, the Engage. Every Engage session is designed to activate students’ prior knowledge. This phase is all about getting your students thinking about what they already know about the given topic and sharing information, making it a great time for whole group instruction. As a teacher, this will help you determine what your students already know and gain insight into any possible misconceptions. Once the online session is completed, students can work on a printable Prior Knowledge Activity that will help them to further engage their prior knowledge. The offline materials are all differentiated by grade level, and each has a unique objective tailored to each module. If you want to see for yourself how Science4Us can engage your students and bring science to life in your classroom,contact Science4Us Today!

Note, i think the best is this section since elementary teachers would have trouble with it but with S4U, it's really easy to teach

• Elementary science energy l;essons
• Energy Sources explained to kids
• Light Energy, lets explore it!
• Heat Energy lessons for early elementary
• Sound Energy with great online concepts and fun real world exercises
• Electrical Energy for elementary students
• Energy Transformations lessons and demos

Simple Machines

Early elementary students are fascinated when they first learn about simple machines.  I remember myself, learning in kindergarten or first grade about the basic mechanical machines:
- level
- wheel
- pulley
- Inclined Plane  
While it's fun to to get hands on, most people teach this also in a virtual style.  The Science4Us people have a great song that teaches about the basic machines, and I quote:

Work Smarter

This three-minute animated music video illustrates how simple machines are used daily to make work easier and smarter, not harder. Following the video, students use their digital Notebooks to fill in song lyrics with the correct simple machine, then identify non-examples of the correct answer.

BTW, this Simple Machines song has been put up on Youtube and  has 22K views already.