Make a Model Hand with Working Muscles & Tendons - Fun Science Fair Project - 2 views
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5.4.1 Investigate technologies that mimic human or animal musculoskeletal systems in order to meet a need.5.4.2 Investigate the purpose of prototypes and models when designing a solution to a problem and how limitations in cost and design features might affect their construction.5.4.3 Design solutions to problems in the context of musculoskeletal body systems. Using suitable tools, techniques and materials, draw or build a prototype or model of a proposed design. Differentiation: For ELL and special education students; Create the model hand with the class as they create it. Go step by step and do the process with them so they can watch you and hear the directions you are giving.
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Have students look up a prototype online that mimics a human musculoskeletal system. Have them share with the class the purpose and prototype. Next, as a class students will create a model hand using simple materials such as string, paper, and a pen or pencil. Have the students create this hand and see how the "tendons" mimic the musculoskeletal system in a real human hand.
Keeping Drinks Hot - Fun Science Fair Projects for Kids - 2 views
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4.1.1 Describe and investigate the different ways in which heat can be generated.4.1.2 Investigate the variety of ways in which heat can be generated and moved from one place to another. Explain the direction the heat moved. Differentiation: For ELL students, allow them to draw their predictions and also draw which direction they think the heat is moving after testing.
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In this activity, students will make predictions about how heat moves in a hot drink. Students will make predictions about how cool a drink will get over time and what some factors are in changing the heat. Then hot and cold water and milk, students will test these predictions.
Work: Force through a Distance | Education.com - 1 views
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4.4.3 "Investigate how changes in speed or direction are caused by forces: the greater the force exerted on an object, the greater the change."
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This would be a great inclusion activity for special needs students. Students could work in groups to calculate the work. Even though this is listed as a middle school activity, with thorough explanation, 4th grade students would be able to complete this activity to meet standard 4.4.3.
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In this project, you will learn how to measure the work done on an object. You will determine the effect that a simple machine has on work. You will also determine the effect of the direction of the force on work.
Make a String Phone - Fun Science Projects for Kids - 1 views
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3.1.1 Generate sounds using different materials, objects and techniques. Record the sounds and then discuss and share the results. 3.1.3 Investigate and recognize that sound moves through solids, liquids and gases (e.g., air). Differentiation: Assign a student with poor fine motor skills a partner to do their hole poking for them. With their partner, have students build their telephones with help from a peer. Although this project may seem simple to build, students with under-developed motor skills would have great difficulty with this task. Having a students get help from a peer would allow them to complete the task and practice working collaboratively with others.
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In this activity, students will create a telephone using paper cups and string. Students will use their telephones to observe how sound and vibrations travel through air.
Physical Weathering Of Rocks: Sugar Cube Breakdown | Education.com - 1 views
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4.2.1 "Demonstrate and describe how smaller rocks come from the breakage and weathering of larger rocks in a process that occurs over a long period of time."
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This would be a great language development activity for ELL students- they could be challenged to use adjectives to describe what they are seeing during the weathering process.
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The rocks that compose the Earth's crust are subjected to a variety of forces. Depending on the environmental factors at work, the rocks can be altered in size or in composition. Factors such as wind, water, plants, and animals cause weathering, physical changes in rocks that affect their size. However, physical changes do not affect the composition of rock. In this activity you will see the effect of physical weathering on rocks.
Make a Wind Vane - Fun Science Fair Projects for Kids - 1 views
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2.2.1 Construct and use tools to observe and measure weather phenomena like precipitation, changes in temperature, wind speed and direction.2.2.2 Experience and describe wind as the motion of the air. Differentiation: Allow gifted students to record the direction of wind for a week or even a few weeks. With this information discuss with the class the effects of wind direction and how it correlates to weather.
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Using a container lid, scissors, a marker, a straw, and a pin students will create their own weather vanes that they can use to go outside and observe the act and direction of wind.
5th Grade Science Fair Project Ideas - 1 views
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Have students test a hypothesis and then present what they find after experimenting. You can differeniate depending on depth of project, or let children choose which experiment they would like to do.
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Here is a list of science projects that require students to design a fair test.
Melting Chocolate Experiment - Science Experiments for Kids - 1 views
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1.1.2 Characterize materials as solid or liquid, investigate their properties, record observations and explain the choices to others based on evidence (i.e., physical properties) 1.1.3 Experiment with simple methods for separating solids and liquids based on their physical properties. Differentiation: For gifted students, have them melt a solid in different ways (microwave, oven, stovetop, heat from sun). Ask them to predict which will melt the fastest and then record their observations
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Using a chocolate bar or chocolate chips students will experiment with melting the chocolate in a microwave or over a stove. Students will make predictions and will make observations about the solid turning into a liquid. After they have made these observations they will put the chocolate back into the freezer and make predictions and observations about what happens next.
Make a Bendable Spinal Column Model | Education.com - 1 views
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This activity could also be connected to health class when learning about the systems of the body. Students could also create other objects that resemble body parts and their functions. This activity can be connected to langauge arts by having students research and write about the function of the vertebral column.
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5.4.3
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This activity allows students to make a bendable spinal column model to see how this functions in the body.
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Students will think about how the spine works as they construct and build a mock spine. This activity will get them thinking about the deisgn process. They will see how and why the spine bends. This is a great visual tool.
Footprint Calculator - 1 views
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I found this through the website, braincake.com. It's for girls interested in math and science. It's worth checking out. Lots of fun resources and designed for girls only.
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To extend this activity, have write in a science journal what they think their carbon footprint would look like, then take the quiz and write a reflection of what they found out. Brainstrom with the class possible solutions and have them make changes at home and at school and report what they have done to change after a few months.
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Have students take this quiz and get involved in saving the planet!
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Have students take this quiz and get involved in saving the planet!
Explore Buoyancy: Make a Soy Sauce Cartesian Diver | Education.com - 1 views
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5.1.3 "Demonstrate that regardless of how parts of an object are assembled the weight of the whole object is identical to the sum of the weight of the parts; however, the volume can differ from the sum of the volumes."
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Extension: Incorporate social studies and language arts- The Cartesian diver is named after Rene Descartes, a French philosopher and physicist. Students can do a research report on scientists that have made significant contributions to the world of science throughout history.
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Ever wondered how a submarine can control when it rises and sinks in the water? Build a Cartesian diver to find out! Named after French philosopher and physicist René Descartes, this classic science experiment is a great way for kids to see the principle of buoyancy at work. And with such a simple set-up, it's a fun and inexpensive way to dive into physics!
Beanstalk in a Box | Education.com - 1 views
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Students will explore plant and animal adaptations as well as ways that living things are well equipped to survive in their environments.
Bad Moons Rising - 1 views
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Text Types and Purposes6-8.WS.1Write arguments to focus on discipline-specific content. a. Introduce claim(s) about a topic or issue, acknowledge anddistinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims,and organize the reasons and evidence logically. b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant,accurate data and evidence that demonstrate anunderstanding of the topic or text, using credible sources. c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion andclarify the relationships among claim(s), counterclaims,reasons, and evidence. d. Establish and maintain a formal style. e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows fromand supports the argument presented. Differentiation: For gifted students, have them create a "moon finder" that will show the moon for any given phase and time. Students can make this in a circle on a paper plate or on black construction paper. Other students can use these "moon finders" to help them determine if the moon is depicted accurately or not.
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In this activity students have to use their knowledge of the phases of the moon to analyze children's books and their depictions of the moon. Using the list of books, students are to review the depiction of the moon and determine if it is accurate or inaccurate. Then, students are to look at books like "Goodnight Moon" and analyze a story where the moon is depicted accurately.
The Science Spot: Science Classroom - 1 views
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To make a math connection, have children imagine they are building a ship (that is X big) and need to fill it with as much cargo as possible without it sinking. They will have to use conversions and multiplications to figure out the solution.
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Mystery Canisters: Lab and worksheet to record observations. Students maniuplate three film canisters to make them sink, float and hover in the water. This is an exploration of Mass.
Make a Pop Bottle Race Car | Education.com - 1 views
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This is a great activity for covering design process, and why things move and how. This can encompass design process as well as basic physics. This will get the students' creative juices flowing when they are designing their car, which will be the best way to engage them.
Make a topographic map! :: NASA's The Space Place - 1 views
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Sticky Note: This would be great to add to a fourth grade social studies unit to make a topo map of the state of Indiana which includes information pertinent to the Indiana social studies unit.
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4.NS.5 Use measurement skills and apply appropriate units when collecting data. Sticky Note: This would be great to add to a fourth grade social studies unit to make a topo map of the state of Indiana which includes information pertinent to the Indiana social studies unit.
Make a Homemade Lava Lamp! | Education.com - 1 views
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This is a great design process experiement where the students can see the process fo design and also see what happens whern different oils and water mixes. This is something fun that the students will be very engaged in while deisgning and making their own lava lamps.
Weathering&ErosionSorting.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 1 views
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Sticky Note: This would be great to add for ELL students as a preview for a unit on weather so they have a good foundation of the vocabulary needed to understand the upcoming unit.
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4.2.2 Describe how wind, water and glacial ice shape and reshape earth's land surface by eroding rock and soil in some areas and depositing them in other areas in a process that occurs over a long period of time. Sticky Note: This would be great to add for ELL students as a preview for a unit on weather so they have a good foundation of the vocabulary needed to understand the upcoming unit.
icecream.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 1 views
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Sticky Note: This would be a great addition to a math lesson on measurement as a good follow-up to a lesson involving the gallon guy because it requires many types of measurement.
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2.1.1. Observe, describe and measure ways in which the properties of a sample of water (including volume) change or stay the same as the water is heated and cooled and then transformed into different states. Sticky Note: This would be a great addition to a math lesson on measurement as a good follow-up to a lesson involving the gallon guy because it requires many types of measurement.
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