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This activity was something I did when I was in elementary school!

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In a week, my class will be moving on from the scientific method to weather. In order to activate prior knowledge (and also to ensure all m…

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This costs money but I thought if it was in a teachers budget they could do it! Or they could even take the time to do it on their own!

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Earth Science Collection / Set of 4 Prints

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Earth! And Science! And Art! Hooray! Perfect for a classroom, play room, or office of an esteemed science professor, the Earth Science Collection includes all f

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This potato idea was pretty sick!

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This is the exact question we are attempting to answer right now in C107! We have set up our potatoes (cut about 1/4 off and soaking in plain water for a couple weeks) and have begun to observe, infer and predict about the growth we expect.

Each student is keeping track of their information on one of these recording sheets. We will check back in a few days and again at the 2 week mark. We are anxiously awaiting the results!

In the mean time, it makes a pretty cool display in the classroom! If you're a teacher who'd like to try this experiment with your kiddos, you can download the lab sheet for FREE in my TpT store!

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How can you grow a potato plant without a seed?

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This is the exact question we are attempting to answer right now in C107! We have set up our potatoes (cut about 1/4 off and soaking in plain water for a couple weeks) and have begun to observe, infer and predict about the growth we expect.

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This website was pretty cool! It will demonstrate the animal/food chain!

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We're way into our animal unit and I'm needing to wrap things up and move on. We've spent time learning the words related to this unit and have been reading from nonfiction book and our text books about adaptations, food chains and ecosystems. Here is a triple circle map on the difference betweeen ecosystems, communities and populations. This kind of visual has helped some kids see the difference between the three. (Picture refused to load horizontally and I refused to spend time trying to get it to...sorry!)

From there I had my students pick a population of animal they wanted to learn more about. We then set up our research folders. This is done with a piece of construction paper folded in half. I gave them the three research forms and they glued them in.

I had the kids write the name of the animal in the center circle. Then they had to write down all the information they already know about that animal. At the end of the research, kids will go back to this circle map and add what they learned from their research. The circle will probably not be big enough to fit it all!

Here is the back cover of the folder:

Here they have to set their purpose for the research. We talk about how good researchers and readers have questions in their minds that they want to get answers to. This focuses their reading. Students write three I wonder questions down. The bottom portion of this sheet has a place for them to record their reference sources. They will use one nonfiction book, one encyclopedia and one online research site.

Here is the inside of the folder. They cut and glue the four headers to the top of the folder. These have the topic words: habitat, physical characteristics, diet, behavioral characteristics. Next they get their reference book and a stack of post it notes and begin reading and searching for information to place under the four categories.

I love the New True Books for reference. They are easy enough for kids to understand and have all of the nonfiction text features we have been learning about.

The kids will be writing a paragraph for each of the four topics so they need to get enough details under each. They write words, phrases and short sentences that support the main idea. I like using post its because we can manipulate the facts and move them around when we go to writing the paragraph. Some details belong together and can be combined to make a sentence.

I added questions to think about under each category to guide their reading and thinking.

Kids have enjoyed learning about their animals! There are many great websites out there that are third grade friendly. I love Enchanted Learning because they include a great diagram of the animal with captions. We've had great luck with National Geographic for Kids as well.

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Animal Research Folder: A Fact Finding Mission

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We're way into our animal unit and I'm needing to wrap things up and move on. We've spent time learning the words related to this unit and have been reading from nonfiction book and our text books about adaptations, food chains and ecosystems. Here is a triple circle map on the difference betweeen ecosystems, communities and populations.

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Sense the rest of the girls went on Pinterest I decided why not? haha I loved this idea! It will help them learn more about clouds and evaporation.

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Cloud Activity - free hands-on science activity for 2nd, 3rd or 4th grade elementary kids. Part of a complete unit on Weather: Weather, Climate, & Water Cycle. Meets Common Core and NGSS.

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I went on pinterest like the other girls and found this! It will help the students learn about Gallons and other measurements.

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Great visual for making measurement conversions

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I thought of this cool idea as well from pinterest! Its to help your students learn more about erosion!

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Read how I carried out an experiment on weathering and erosion with my upper elementary class. Students get to use background knowledge to make predictions!

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I think this site is really good for beginning teachers to get fresh ideas! Good work Lindsie!

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I love this! Its a osmosis experiment working with gummy bears!

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I thought this padlet was really helpful! Here is another idea!

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Here is a worksheet your students can do to learn more about the different rocks!

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https://www.education.com/activity/fourth-grade/science/ Follow this link for more ideas about 4th grade science! I found this site was really useful!

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Another idea that I came up with to learn about clouds, was to take cotton balls and pull them apart to make different clouds. You then label each one of them to make sure they know which cloud is what. Here is an example of the activity!

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This was a cool idea I found that will help your students understand the water cycle better!

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Watch this video to get more ideas about how to teach on fossils!

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What are some activities we can do with our students to help them understand science better?