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Foundations of Inquiry Science
Accelerated Pace: Semester 1 Supply List

Week 1A — Organizing Things into Categories
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
Paper and pencil OR Writing Sheet for Memory Game	Categorizing Monsters worksheet Assortment of miscellaneous items from junk drawers and closets (for sorting practice)
Week 1B — Solids, Liquids, and Gases Introduction
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
	Solid, Liquid, Gas Sorting worksheet Writing Pages Water and various liquids in clear containers (cooking oil, liquid detergent, syrup, shampoo, etc.) Various solid items (toys, pencils, dishes, coins, etc.)
Week 2A — States of Matter: Changes with Temperature
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
No additional supplies needed (uses same materials from Week 1B)
Week 2B — Gravity Introduction
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
Something to drop (literally anything that isn’t going to break) Clear bottle or cup with water in it Some type of oil (vegetable oil works well)
Week 3A — The Concepts of Horizontal and Vertical
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
Blocks or something to stack that can fall without breaking	Plumb bob (any weight tied to the end of a string) Carpenter’s level Horizontal and Vertical Printable
Week 3B — What is Energy?
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
	Sorting Energy worksheet Energy Transfers worksheet
Week 4A — Energy Transformation
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
No additional supplies needed (same worksheets from Week 3B)
Week 4B — Air is Real / Air and the Atmosphere
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
Balance scale Bubbles Straw Cup of water Fan Balloon (2) Bowl of water big enough to stick your hand in	Alternative to balance scale: stick/dowel balanced on a string OR a hanger
Week 5A — Categorizing the World Around Us
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
	Biological, natural Earth, and human-made sorting worksheet
Week 5B — Distinguishing Living Things from Natural Earth and Human Made / Technology, Tools, and Animals
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
	Fine Details + Magnifying Glass
Week 6A — Matter is Made of Particles
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
Draw Particles Worksheet or paper to draw on Piece of paper to rip up
Week 6B — Changes in Particles with States of Matter / Reversible and Nonreversible Changes
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
	Diffusion Experiment: food coloring, hot water, cold water, room temperature water, three clear glasses
Week 7A — Sound and Vibrations
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
Soundwaves Printable or paper Rubber bands (1 larger flat rubber band, 2 smaller, various other sizes helpful) Two JUMBO popsicle sticks (the wider ones) Plastic straw + scissors to cut it	Slinky Stringed instrument, xylophone, bell, or other tone-making item Tuning fork (especially useful but not required)
Week 7B — How Sound Travels
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
No additional supplies needed (uses same materials from Week 7A)
Week 8A — Kinetic and Potential Energy / Energy in the Natural World
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
Ramp (any flat surface on an angle, a book balanced on other books works) Balls or toys to roll or slide down the ramp	Pendulum (a weight on a string tied to the edge of a table) Balloon Rubber bands Spring-powered or windup toy
Week 8B — Plants vs. Animals: Key Differences / Where All Food Energy Comes From
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
	Food Web Worksheet Plant versus Animal Sorting worksheet
Week 9A — Categories of Materials / Properties of Different Materials
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
	Wood pencil Various materials to feel and touch (metal, plastic, wood, ceramic) Examples of something translucent, transparent, and opaque Magnet
Week 9B — The Life Cycle Concept
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
	Lifecycle Worksheets (various)
Week 10A — Metamorphosis and Variation in Life Cycles
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
	Depending on the season, an animal to raise to observe its lifecycle (butterfly, ladybug, fruit fly, frog, etc.) — make sure it is a local species and not invasive
Week 10B — Understanding Force / How Force and Energy Work Together
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
Items to toss safely (balls, bean bags, etc.)	Spring scale
Week 11A — Animal Adaptations / Food Chains and Energy Flow
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
Food Chain Activity worksheet or blank paper to draw/write a food chain
Week 11B — Reading and Drawing Maps
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
Blank Map or blank paper Drawing supplies Pencils or markers	Maps of your local street area Maps of your larger city or region
Week 12A — Matter vs. Energy: What Is the Difference?
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
	Bathroom or accurate scale or balance A lamp, heater, or springs and rubber bands (to illustrate forms of kinetic energy)
Week 12B — Identifying Local Plants and Animals / Habitats and Why Organisms Live Where They Do
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
	Field guides for regional trees, flowers, mammals, birds, and insects (used copies are fine) Seek App on phone Materials for making simple leaf or insect collections (as desired)
Week 13A — Air Pressure
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
Balloon Clear cup of water and straw
Week 13B — Pressure Inside and Outside / Vacuums and Suction / Air Pressure, Wind, and the Atmosphere
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
	Household vacuum cleaner
Week 14A — Day, Night, and Earth’s Rotation
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
	Globe on a small table or stand + flashlight or lamp with no shade Toothpaste and rice grains OR a sticky note
Week 14B — Compass Directions / Maps and Real-World Directions
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
Compass Rose Printable OR blank paper North South East and West Printable OR paper with grid lines (4x4 and 8x8) Cheap plastic globe (dollar store) that you can cut up OR an orange with the continent shapes drawn on it	Globe World map Compass (or phone compass app) Stick or pole mounted to the ground with a way to mark the ground
Week 15A — Properties of Magnets
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
Bar magnet (2 or more, one to be suspended by thread) Things to test for magnetism (whatever you have on hand) Iron or iron-containing items (paper clips, small nails, pipecleaners, etc.) Non-iron metal items (aluminum soda cans, pennies, silver or gold jewelry, lead fishing weight)	Variety of magnets (horseshoe, bar, and button types) Directional compass
Week 15B — Magnetic Fields / Earth as a Magnet
Required Items	Optional Items / At Home Demonstration
	Iron filings (purchasable or sometimes free from a local machine shop) This set from Amazon is really helpful for more investigations This set is higher quality and NOT from Amazon, but only includes one bar magnet Dollar Tree sometimes has magnets for sale