Third Grade Science Notebook
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Sound
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Investigation 1 Part 1
What are the properties of sound that make them identifiable?
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Investigation 1 Part 2
Can you use the discrimination of sounds to make a code for sending messages?
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Investigation 1 Part 3
How are sounds made?
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Investigation 2 Part 1
How are high and low sounds made?
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Investigation 2 Part 2
How does length affect the rate of vibration, and therefore the pitch?
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Investigation 2 Part3
How does length affect the rate of vibration, and therefore the pitch?
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Date _____________________ Investigation 3 Part 1 How is sound different when heard through air or water?
Date _____________________ Investigation 3 Part 2 Can sound travel through solids? How is sound different when heard through solids?
Date _____________________ Investigation 4 Part 1 How can pitch, volume, and the distance a sound can travel be modified or enhanced?
Earth Materials
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Investigation 1 Part 1
What are some to the properties we can use to describe individual rocks?
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Investigation 1 Part 2
How can we determine the ingredients of a rock? How can we separate the ingredients of a rock?
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Investigation 1 Part 3
What are the ingredients in mock rocks? What evidence do you have to support your conclusions?
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Investigation 2 Part 1
What properties can we use to identify minerals?
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Investigation 2 Part 2
What properties can we use to indentify minerals? How can your fingernail, a penny, and a paper clip help determine hardness?
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Investigation 3 Part 1
How can we tell if one of the ingredients in a rock is the mineral calcite?
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Investigation 3 Part 2
Is there another test we can do to know for sure which rocks contain calcite?
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Investigation 4 Part 1
What are the mineral ingredients in granite?
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Water
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Investigation 1 Part 1
What happens when water gets spilled? Does water do the same thing on all surfaces?
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Investigation 1 Part 2
What shape does water make on a flat surface? Why does water form a dome on flat surfaces? How can you change the surface tension of plain water?
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Investigation 1 Part 3
Does water always flow downhill? How does changing the slope or quantity of water change the speed at which it flows downhill?
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Investigation 2 Part 1
What happens to water when it is heated? What happens to water when it is cooled?
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Investigation 1 Part 2
Is hot water denser or less dense than roomtemperature water? Is cold water denser or less dense than roomtemperature water?
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Investigation 2 Part 3
What happens to water when it freezes? What happens to ice when it is heated? How do the masses of equal volumes of ice and water compare?
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Investigation 3 Part 1
What happens when two paper towels are allowed to dray, one in a cup with a lid and the other in an open cup?
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Investigation 3 Part 2
What effect does air temperature have on evaporation?
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Investigation 3 Part 3
What effect does surface area have on the rate of evaporation?
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Investigation 3 Part 4
What happens when the surface of an object or material is cooler than the air surrounding it?
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Investigation 4 Part 1
What happens when you pour water through different earth material?
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Investigation 4 Part 2
How does a waterwheel work? What is the best design for a waterwheel that will efficiently lift objects?
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Investigation 4 Part 3
What are some of the properties of water that affect its quality? What types of water can be used for different purposes?
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Brine Shrimp Study
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Brine Shrimp Observations
Insect Observations for Brine Shrimp
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