4th Grade - Science
Physical Science: Forces and Motion
Explain how various forces affect the motion of an object
4.P.1.1
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Explain how magnets interact with all things made of iron and with other magnets to produce motion without touching them.
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4.P.1.2
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Explain how electrically charged objects push or pull on other electrically charged objects and produce motion.
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Physical Science: Matter: Properties and Change
Understand the composition and properties of matter before and after they undergo a change or interaction
4.P.2.1
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Compare the physical properties of samples of matter: (strength, hardness, flexibility, ability to conduct heat, ability to conduct electricity, ability to be attracted by magnets, reactions to water and fire).
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4.P.2.2
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Explain how minerals are identified using tests for the physical properties of hardness, color, luster, cleavage, and streak.
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4.P.2.3
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Classify rocks as metamorphic, sedimentary or igneous based on their composition, how they are formed and the processes that create them.
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Physical Science: Energy Conservation
Recognize that energy takes various forms that may be grouped based on their interaction with matter
4.P.3.1
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Recognize the basic forms of energy (light, sound, heat, electrical, and magnetic) as the ability to cause motion or create change.
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4.P.3.2
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Recognize that light travels in a straight line until it strikes an object or travels from one medium to another, and that light can be reflected refracted, and absorbed.
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Earth Science: Earth in the Universe
Explain the causes of day and night and phases of the moon
4.E.11
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Explain the cause of day and night based on the rotation of Earth on its axis.
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4.E.12
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Explain the monthly changes in the appearance of the moon, based on the moon’s orbit around the Earth.
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Earth Science: Earth History
Understand the use of fossils and changes in the surface of the earth as evidence of the history of Earth and its changing life forms
4.E.2.1
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Compare fossils (including molds, casts, and preserved parts of plants and animals) to one another and to living organisms.
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4.E.2.2
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Infer ideas about Earth’s early environments from fossils of plants and animals that lived long ago.
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4.E.2.3
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Give examples of how the surface of the earth changes due to slow processes such as erosion and weathering, and rapid processes such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes.
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Life Science: Ecosystems
Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats
4.L.1.1
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Give examples of changes in an organism’s environment that are beneficial to it and some that are harmful.
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4.L.1.2
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Explain how animals meet their needs by using behaviors in response to information received from the environment.
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4.L.1.3
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Explain how humans can adapt their behavior to live in changing habitats (e.g., recycling wastes, establishing rain gardens, planting native species to prevent flooding and erosion).
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4.L.1.4
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Explain how differences among animals of the same population sometimes give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing in changing habitats.
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Life Science: Molecular Biology
Understand food and the benefits of vitamins, minerals and exercise
4.L.2.1
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Classify substances as food or non-food items based on their ability to provide energy and materials for survival, growth and repair of the body
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4.L.2.2
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Explain the role of vitamins, minerals and exercise in maintaining a healthy body.
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Additional Resources:
Science Interactives: http://interactivesites.weebly.com/science.html
General:
Science Kids:
http://sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities.html
Science 4 us:
http://www.science4us.com/demo/
Utah Education Network:
http://www.uen.org/3-6interactives/science.shtml
PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/science/games/elementary/
How things are made:
http://manufacturing.stanford.edu/hetm.html
Magic Schoolbus:
http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/index.htm
Ology:
http://www.amnh.org/explore/ology
Planet Games:
http://games.noaa.gov/
Animals:
4-H Virtual Farm:
http://www.sites.ext.vt.edu/virtualfarm/main.html
San Diego Zoo Cams:
http://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/video-more
Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Web Cams:
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals-and-experiences/live-web-cams
Astronomy/Space:
Mars Virtual Tour:
http://mars.arounder.com/
Moon Virtual Tour:
http://moon.arounder.com/
Ask an Astronomer:
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/ask_astronomer/video/index.html
Nasa for students:
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/index.html
Chemistry:
Chem 4 Kids:
http://www.chem4kids.com/index.html
Earth Science (weather, geology, water cycle, etc):
Global Climate Change:
http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html
Beyond Weather and the water cycle:
http://beyondweather.ehe.osu.edu/
Earthquakes for Kids:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/
Nasa Wild Weather Adventure:
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/wild-weather-adventure/en/
Thirstin’s water cycle:
http://www3.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html
usda air quality images:
http://www.fsvisimages.com/descriptions.aspx
Weather wiz kids:
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/
Habitats and Biomes:
What’s it like where you live?
http://www.mbgnet.net/index.html
Paelontology:
The field exhibit museum online exhibits
http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/exhibits/online_exhib.htm
Kids dig Reed:
http://www.kidsdigreed.com/
Physics (matter, forces, light, etc):
States of matter:
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/states_of_matter/index.html
Building big forces lab:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/lab/forces.html
4th grade science livebinder:
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=81567
Science Interactives: http://interactivesites.weebly.com/science.html
General:
Science Kids:
http://sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities.html
Science 4 us:
http://www.science4us.com/demo/
Utah Education Network:
http://www.uen.org/3-6interactives/science.shtml
PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/science/games/elementary/
How things are made:
http://manufacturing.stanford.edu/hetm.html
Magic Schoolbus:
http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/index.htm
Ology:
http://www.amnh.org/explore/ology
Planet Games:
http://games.noaa.gov/
Animals:
4-H Virtual Farm:
http://www.sites.ext.vt.edu/virtualfarm/main.html
San Diego Zoo Cams:
http://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/video-more
Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Web Cams:
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals-and-experiences/live-web-cams
Astronomy/Space:
Mars Virtual Tour:
http://mars.arounder.com/
Moon Virtual Tour:
http://moon.arounder.com/
Ask an Astronomer:
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/ask_astronomer/video/index.html
Nasa for students:
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/index.html
Chemistry:
Chem 4 Kids:
http://www.chem4kids.com/index.html
Earth Science (weather, geology, water cycle, etc):
Global Climate Change:
http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html
Beyond Weather and the water cycle:
http://beyondweather.ehe.osu.edu/
Earthquakes for Kids:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/
Nasa Wild Weather Adventure:
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/wild-weather-adventure/en/
Thirstin’s water cycle:
http://www3.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html
usda air quality images:
http://www.fsvisimages.com/descriptions.aspx
Weather wiz kids:
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/
Habitats and Biomes:
What’s it like where you live?
http://www.mbgnet.net/index.html
Paelontology:
The field exhibit museum online exhibits
http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/exhibits/online_exhib.htm
Kids dig Reed:
http://www.kidsdigreed.com/
Physics (matter, forces, light, etc):
States of matter:
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/states_of_matter/index.html
Building big forces lab:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/lab/forces.html
4th grade science livebinder:
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=81567