4th Grade

Posts used for in-class lessons or activities for fourth grade.

Generating Germs

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Bread and Potato Germ Experiment

On Friday, March 13th, Rooms 101, 102, 213, 214, and 215 did an experiment with bread. Room 102 also did an experiment with a potato. 

  1. I shook every students’ hand when they entered the classroom (I HAD washed my hands previously), but they didn’t know until afterward that I had put green glitter on my hand. The glitter represented the germs that were on my hands after I sneezed into them. We observed how many germs were spread throughout the class after touching so many people.
  2. Next we used bread to represent skin and touched the bread. We will compare these pieces of bread with the control – a piece that was untouched (I used gloves).
  3. We also came up with other things in school that people frequently touch, and then rubbed the “skin” (bread) on those items as well. I will post the daily update here. There were a few samples that the Day 1 photos did not come out, so those are starting with Day 2 in the galleries below.
  4. We also did a peeled potato as well.

Note: We did spend time washing our hands to make sure everyone was safe during this experiment. 

Fresh and Untouched
Bread

Room 101
Unwashed Hands

Room 102
Unwashed Hands

Room 213
Unwashed Hands

Room 214
Unwashed Hands

Room 215
Unwashed Hands

Room 101
Washed Hands

Room 102
Washed Hands

Room 213
Washed Hands

Chair

Computer

Railing

Pencil

Pencil Box

Table

Floor

Door Handle

Phone

KidSpark Block

After Blowing Nose

Untouched Potato

Touched Potato

KidSpark Survey and Google Sites

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Click here to go to Google Sites

Click here to go to the Symbaloo Board

Click here to go to the Google Sites Tutorial

Remember starting to work on a Google Site? We did this in the fall. Let’s use our extra time today to go back to Google Sites and continue to learn how to use it. When we started, some people may have chosen to do a site about themselves. Today I want you to start a new site on a science topic. Look below for examples. There are also some books on the bookshelf in the back – most on animals, but there are other ones as well. If your original site was on a science topic, you can continue to work on that one, or start a new one. 

  • Click on the Google Sites icon on the left and it will take you to a page that has your site and any others that you start. 
  • If you don’t remember how to create and edit your Google Site, then click the rocket on the left to go to the tutorial on Google Sites. 
  • Click on the Symbaloo link for some research sites (not all links on the Symbaloo board are research sites – only use it to research your topic).
Sketch out your topics in your science notebook. List the pages you want.
  • Pick a planet and create a site on that planet
  • Create a site about constellations or space
  • Information about NASA or space exploration
  • El Nino, tornadoes, earthquakes
  • Pick a cause that you want people to know about – global warming, deforestation, recycling, the “garbage patch”
  • “How to” site on something science-related
  • Create a site about an animal – or a group of animals (different types of insects for example)
  • Research a scientist or engineer
  • Health, nutrition, human body
  • Science or engineering careers
  • A habitat (desert, for example)
  • A National Park 
  • Animals that live in San Diego (not pets)

CS First and Hour of Code 2019

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Step
1

Have your card ready with your username (example: cs1234567) and password (example: 75thunderbolt)

 

Click the Button

CS First
Step
2

Click Sign In
Step
3

You might still be signed in from last week and may not have to enter your information!

If you’re not logged in already, then go to “Returning Student” and enter your username and password.

Be careful! It is easy to mistype your username or password!
Step
4

Once you are logged in, you need to go to “Interactive Presentation,”
Step
5

Go to the second video and click the link on the right “Starter Project.” 
Step
6

Before you do anything else sign in to Scratch with the same username and password. 
Step
7

Here is the sign in screen.
Step
8

Create your Interactive Presentation. 

Then click on “share” – the orange button. 

If you see a green button that says “remix” you have to click that first, and then the “share” button will show up.
Step
9

Complete the survey back in CS First.
Step
10

After you have shared, you can go to Hour of Code and choose an activity.

Click the Button

Hour of Code

CS First Activities

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Last year we did some CS First activities. These will lead up to the Hour of Code, which is next week, December 9th-13th. Set up a new account and complete the Interactive Presentation activity. 

Detailed instructions are also below

  1. Copy this code: 5th = sbb82d, 4th = zrfjrf, 3rd = bsnf67, 2nd = gw37p6
  2. Click on the link on the right.
  3. Click sign in
  4. Choose “I am a student”
  5. Enter the code: 5th = sbb82d, 4th = zrfjrf, 3rd = bsnf67, 2nd = gw37p6
  6. Click, “yes, join” (make sure it says the right class first)
  7. When it asks if you need a new password, click “yes”
  8. Write down your username and password on an index card with your name and turn it in to the teacher
  9. Use the “snip” tool to take a picture of your username and password and save it to your computer.
  10. Start the first activity – Interactive Presentation, or Dialogue
  11. IF you finish that activity, start the second activity Code Your Hero
Go to CS First
Step
1

Select
“I’m a student”

Step
2

Enter your class code.

  • 5th Grade = sbb82d
  • 4th Grade = zrfjrf
  • 3rd Grade = bsnf67
  • 2nd Grade = gw37p6

Click “Next”

Step
3

Confirm your class and click “yes, join”.

    Step
    4

    Request a new username and password, even if we made one last year.

      Step
      5

      Write down on an index card:

      1. Your first and last name
      2. Your room #
      3. Your username
      4. Your password
      5. Double check 
      6. Give card to the teacher

      Also, use the “SNIP” tool to take a screenshot of your username and password and save it to your computer.

        Step
        6

        Start the first activity “Interactive Presentation”

        2nd Grade is doing 
        “Dialogue”

          Step
          7

          Click on Interactive Presentation, then START

            Step
            8

            Watch the two videos.

              Click the next button at the bottom.

                Step
                9

                Click the starter project link.

                  Step
                  10

                  Start working on the starter project. Go back an re-watch videos if you need directions.

                    IF you have an account, you can log in to Scratch. 

                    Do NOT set up an account yet if you don’t have one. 

                    Links

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                    Common Sites we Use

                    Google Classroom

                    SeeSaw

                    Canvas

                    Interland

                    Google Classroom

                    1. Use Chrome if it is installed on your computer.
                    2. You should already be logged in to Google. If not, you need to login to Google by using your student ID number (the same one you use to login to your computer) and @stu.sandi.net (example: [email protected]) and then enter your password.
                    3. Go to the nine squares at the top and click.
                    4. Click on “classroom”
                    5. Find the Science Lab and click join. some of you have already done this. Others need to.

                    SeeSaw

                    1. Click on the SeeSaw link above (or in Google Classroom). 
                    2. Click “login” – top left corner. NOT sign up.
                    3. Select “I am a student”
                    4. Select Login in with Google account. Do NOT enter/type any information in on that screen – no email, name, etc. All you have to do is click on the top link to use your Google account. 
                    5. IF it asks for a code, the code is: TYFM JVXG
                    6. Once you are in, you are done. Just want to make sure you can get in. You can close all of the tabs for SeeSaw.

                    Canvas

                    1. This is a new thing we will try.
                    2. Click on the link above. Or, in Google Classroom, the one that says “Sign in”
                    3. You will see a screen that looks like the one below. It should put in your user id and password (same one used to login to your computer) for you, but if not, enter it. 
                    4. It will pop up another screen where you have to agree by checking the box, and then clicking the button.
                    5. If you are able to get in, then you will see the third screen. 
                    6. That’s it. Now that you have checked on Google Classroom, SeeSaw, and Canvas, you can now click on the Interland link and play the game.