Weather App Project 1/22/14

This Week’s Science Class in a Glance:

This week we are working on a Weather App Project using a class set of Ipads. We will also be starting Chapter 9 Changes to Earth’s Surface as we finish our weather project this week. Be sure not to forget — our Tornado in a Bottle Projects are due on Friday. We will have a demonstration time on Friday for the kids to share in groups!! 🙂

I found our Weather App project we are completing this week on Pinterest and I absolutely LOVED it!! You can find it here. I adapted it to fit our classes time frame and knowledge. Students picked from three groups of cities (The South, The East, or the Midwest.) In groups, students looked up the current temperature for each city on their Ipad. Afterwards, they completed the math problems using their temperatures. For example, one question asked them to put the temperatures in order from coldest to warmest.

I thought this would be a great finale to our Weather Unit, and it would also allow the students to use technology while integrating another content area — Math!!

I am hoping to find some other projects for our students to do using the Ipads this year in Science .. They were SO excited!!

Let’s Have a Great Week!!

Tornado Adjective Activity 1/17/14

TGIF!!

Sorry that this picture is blurry — I forgot that my flash was on my camera! After our Daily Math Quiz today we added our last page to our Chapter 7 notebook.

I am trying to tie our Science content into other subjects to help our students connect their learning. Today we did a review of Adjectives which is one of our fourth grade skills. I found this cute video on You Tube of a class in Georgia singing about adjectives. You can watch this video here. After we watched the video we began thinking of words that would describe a tornado. Students illustrated a tornado on page 74, and worked in groups to come up with adjectives to write around their illustrated tornado. I was impressed with lots of our 4th graders notebook pages! Featured above are some of my 2nd and 4th period kiddos work.

I hope everyone has a great long weekend!! Next week we are working on a Weather Project with Ipads, and we will start Chapter 9 toward the end of the week!!

Cloud Lab 12/11/13

Lab flop today guys!!
This idea looked so cute on Pinterest, but in real life not so much!!! We took a clear plastic cup and filled it halfway with water. We then put shaving cream on top of the water. We then squirted blue food coloring on top of the cloud for rain. The rain was supposed to go through the shaving cream and rain … Only a few cloud labs participated with us today 😦 The kids had fun though and we reviewed the water cycle — so all is well in 4th Grade Science 🙂 Next year though — we will find a different lab. 🙂

Weather Map 12/10/13

I love how my 4th graders take such pride in their Science Notebooks by making their hand-outs pretty and colorful!!

Air Mass and Fronts 12/9/13

Today in Science we added two pages to our Science Notebook. On page 58 we added a page about air masses. We labeled the six air masses that affect weather in the United States. On page 59 we learned about fronts. We drew the three symbols for cold, warm, and stationary fronts. Our cold front that came on Thursday, and brought cold weather and rain helped us understand the concept!! 🙂 Big thanks to Eve Heaton and her blog — they provided the inspiration for these Science pages!!

Water Cycle 12/5/13

We are currently studying Chapter 6 Water Cycle and Weather. We are learning so much in Science this year!! Today in Science we added two new pages to our Science Notebook. I LOVED that graphic organizer at the top of this picture! I was surfing Teachers Pay Teachers over Thanksgiving, and I found it for free!! I’ve included the link here for anyone interested. We finished class by illustrating the Water Cycle. I’ve included my illustration from my notebook — don’t judge me too harshly .. I’m not an artist!! 🙂 I will be snapping pictures tomorrow of the kiddos illustrations — they will have time to complete the page at the beginning of class tomorrow. Stay tuned — FUN lab coming up tomorrow!! 🙂

Digestion Lab 11/20/13

Thank goodness for Pinterest!! I have found the cutest labs and activities for our 4th graders to do!! Today’s lab modeled digestion. Each child received a sandwich bag and 2 saltine crackers. We zipped our bags closed, and mashed our crackers together to model mechanical digestion. Mechanical digestion is when we chew our food up!! Next, we poured a small amount of Sierra Mist in each bag. This represented chemical digestion which is the stomach acid helping to break down the food into simpler compounds to digest. This lab helped us to ‘see’ digestion in action!! 🙂

Digestion Lab 11/20/13

2nd Period

Digestion Lab 11/20/13

4th Period

Digestion Lab 11/20/13

5th Period