Teaching Animal Adaptations in Fourth Grade
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Teaching animal adaptations in fourth grade? Focus on birds! You’ll love the way these interdisciplinary studies reinforce understanding of structures and functions. (more…)
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Teaching Animal Structures and Functions – Fourth Grade
How can you teach animal structures and functions in fourth grade? To make it more manageable, focus on one class, or group. Since birds have so many adaptations, they make…
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Roller Coasters Energy Transfer Project – Potential and Kinetic
Roller coasters engage kids in exploration of potential and kinetic energy. With some plastic tubing and BBs, they can use the engineering design process to build, test, and refine. What’s…
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Inexpensive Dollar Store Physics Activities for Kids
Dollar store physics (or physical science) activities make energy lessons pop! Try these energy and wave projects for some inexpensive and purposeful fun! (more…)
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Patterns Transfer Information – 3 Easy Science Activities
How can you teach fourth graders about using patterns to transfer information? First, introduce Morse Code. Second, explain binary code. Third, discuss simple signals, such as thumbs up and thumbs…
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Teaching About the Eye and Vision in Fourth Grade
Teaching about the eye and vision? Try these simple activities. First, your fourth grade students experiment with light. Second, they learn the parts of the eye and make analogies. From…
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What Happens When Objects Collide – Collisions in Physics
Teach collisions in physics to show kids what happens when objects collide. In this set of physical science activities, students explore collisions using miniature pool tables. (more…)
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9 Forms of Energy and Examples for Kids
What are the 9 forms of energy and examples? It’s time to introduce light, sound, heat, electricity, motion, gravity, mechanical, chemical, and nuclear. First, break them into two categories: kinetic…
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Teaching the Relationship Between Speed and Energy
Teaching about the special relationship between speed and energy? A variety of hands-on activities let kids explore and conceptualize how increasing speed increases energy – and vice versa. (more…)
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Kids Learn About Moon Movement, Phases, Tides, and Eclipses
Learn about Moon movement, phases, tides, and eclipses with a model. Then kids will conceptualize its motion relative to the Earth and Sun. (more…)
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