4th Grade - Science

Physical Science: Forces and  Motion
Explain how various forces affect the motion of an object 
4.P.1.1
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Explain the cause of day and night based on the rotation of Earth on its axis.
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4.E.12
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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​Forest Ecosystem w/b
4.L.2.2
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


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