Fourth Grade, Science, Set Three

Elementary Life Science

• Chapter Eleven: Reptiles and Amphibians
• Activity: Took the temperature at different places and times in the house to find out where cold-blooded animals would want to live (75 - 85 degrees F)
• Chapter Twelve: Life Cycles of Birds, Mammals, and Insects
• Activity: Did this really cool activity to demonstrate the life cycle of a butterfly. Four strips of construction paper are 2" x 8-1/2", one is 2" x 11".
  

  

  Eggs

  
  

  

  Caterpillar

  
  

  

  Chrysalis

  
  

  

  Butterfly

• Chapter Thirteen: Classifying Animals
• Activity: Classifying Donuts -- we bought a glazed, old fashioned, bear claw, twist, and apple fritter and classified them. After that K. asked her dad questions to see if he could figure out the donuts by their classification. For example, Which donut is bumpy and has a hole? Which donut is not bumpy, not round, and not twisted?
  
  
• Chapter Fourteen: Classifying Plants
• Activity: Put white carnations in colored water to see how water moves through a plant.
• Chapter Fifteen: Classifying Fungi and Protists
• Activity: Get two bottles of soda pop. Empty one and fill it with water. Put a teaspoon of yeast into each bottle, mix it up, put deflated balloon over the mouth of the bottle. Leave for 24 hours.