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FOURTH
GRADE - HELPING HANDS SCIENCE
download pdf of 6 units below
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Chapter |
Required Lab in Science Lab |
Materials |
Storybooks or
Slideshow (on http://msnucleus.org) |
LIFE
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Parts of Ecosystems |
4.1 Owl Pellets
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5 sets of owl
pellets, 5 forceps |
Owl Pellet Party
Owls
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Interactions of
Living Things |
4.2 San Francisco Bay Mollusk fauna |
5 sets of mollusk
mixture from San Francisco Bay |
Murder in the Mud |
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Energy in Ecosystems |
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Through a Frogs Eye |
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Matter in Ecosystems |
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EARTH
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Rocks and Minerals |
4.3 Mineral Hardness
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minerals: talc, gypsum, mica, calcite, fluorite,
apatite, hematite, feldspar, olivine, quartz
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Ricky the Rapping
Rock
Minerals and Rocks (slideshow) |
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Rapid Changes on
Earth |
4.4 Rock Cycle |
Igneous (obsidian,
granite, scoria, basalt) Sedimentary (shale, sandstone,
conglomerate, diatomite), Metamorphic (marble, schist, shale,
gneiss |
Volcanoes
(slideshow) |
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Slow Changes on
Earth |
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PHYSICAL
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Electricity |
4.5 Electricity - static versus current |
2 sets for 4
stations: Balloons, fluorescent tube, combs, confetti, cloth, electric
ball |
Night without Light
Electricity
Electricity
(slideshow)
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Magnetism and
Electromagnets |
4.6 Magnetism finding
north and south, strength |
2 sets of 4
stations: 1 bar magnet with iron files; 2 3 ring magnets; 3 2 wand
magnets with files; 4 logo, marble, rectangle magnets, paper clips |
Electrons and Hairy
Monster |
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