CSI Third Grade Science Investigations for July 2014
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
July 30
July 1
July 2
July 3
POSSIBLE SAFARI
MONTAGE
APPLICATIONS
On-Site CSI
Training Day
8:30-3:30
Pre-planning
8:05 – 2:20
CSI iPad
Training
Half day
CSI iPad
Training
Half day
NOTE: Make Mock Rocks
Recipe in FOSS Kit – All
ingredients are not in kit.
Bring needed ingredients
July 7 (Day 1)
Remember to call
students to remind
them to attend next
week.
July 8 (Day 2)
July 9 (Day 3)
July 10 (Day 4)
Center:
Center:
Center:
Center:
Train on procedures using
student ISN creation p 1-3
and p 14 in Sciencesaurus
Measurement investigations
(ex. FOSS blackline masters
#1 in Measurement kit)
Measurement investigations
(ex. FOSS blackline masters
#1 in Measurement kit)
Measurement
investigations (ex. FOSS
blackline masters #1 in
Measurement kit)
Investigation:
Investigation:
Investigation:
Investigation:
Glurch, Oobleck, or Goop
Observing and identifying
matter (Cookie Lab)
Dancing Raisins
Pretest: Math and
Reading
July 14 (Day 5)
Pretest:Science
July 15 (Day 6)
July 16 (Day 7)
July 17 (Day 8)
Center:
Center:
Center:
Choose a simple experiment
from Experiments With
Water
Choose a simple experiment
from Experiments With
Water
Measurement investigations
(ex. FOSS blackline masters
#1 in Measurement kit)
Matter Pre-Activity
Bill Nye The Water Cycle
video-connect to teacher
demonstration from Day 9,
and create water cycle
baggies
Chemical and physical
changes-complete the Balloon
experiment (baking soda and
vinegar)
Have students repeat a lab
done in class-record and
compare results
Investigation:
Bill Nye Chemical Reactions
video and physical/chemical
reactions worksheet
Ice cream lab
Changing States of Matter
Demonstration
July 21 (Day 9)
Investigation:
July 22 (Day 10)
Investigation:
July 23 (Day 11)
July 11
NO SCHOOL
Glurch, Oobleck, or Goopchoose one NOT done on
Monday, and compare
results.
Center:
Investigation:
1. Science As Inquiry, Unit 1
2. All About Solids, Liquids,
and Gases, Unit 2
3. All about Weathering and
Erosion, Unit 3
4. Earth Alive, Unit 3
5. Magnets and magnetism
Unit 4
July 24 (Day 12)
July 18
NO SCHOOL
July 25
Center:
Center:
Center:
Center:
Repeat the daily
investigation here, or have
tools (magnifying glass, tape
measure) ready for students
to further observe mineral
samples. Repeat Weathering
Lab from day 9
Repeat the daily investigation
here, or have tools
(magnifying glass, tape
measure) ready for students
to further observe mineral
samples. Repeat Weathering
Lab from day 9
Same as Day 9-10
Same as day 9-11.
Investigation:
Investigation:
FOSS Landforms kitStream Table investigation
NO SCHOOL
Weathering and Erosion
video and Weathering lab
Mock Rocks
Minerals videoUse Moh’s hardness scale,
information from the video,
and Sciencesaurus p 162-3 to
create a foldable about
minerals
July 30 (Day 15)
July 31 (Day 16)
Aug 1
Investigation:
July 28 (Day 13)
Investigation:
July 29 (Day 14)
Center:
Center:
Repeat the daily
investigation here, or have
tools (magnifying glass, tape
measure) ready for students
to further observe mineral
samples.
Investigation:
Is it Magnetic and lines of
force labs
Repeat the daily investigation
here, or have tools
(magnifying glass, tape
measure) ready for students
to further observe mineral
samples.
Posttest: Reading/Science
Title I CSI Summer 2014
Investigation:
Bill Nye: Magnetism video
Continued experimentation
with magnets
Posttest: Math
- Complete Projects
- Prepare experiments in
Scientific Method for
Celebration
Parent
Celebration
CSI Surveys
students, parents,
administrators, and
teachers.
NO SCHOOL