How to learn Grade 4: Science

Louisiana academic standards: Science, Grade 4

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1. Earth's Place in the Universe

1. How fossils form: Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time

2. Earth and Human Activity

1. Natural Disaster Solutions: Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans, such as earthquakes, floods, or volcanic eruptions
2. Natural resources: Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and that their uses affect the environment

3. Earth's Systems

1. Changing Environments: Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers and challenges to living things
2. Finding patterns in data: Analyse and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth's features, recognising that many features result from processes that occur over long periods
3. Erosion and weathering: Make observations and measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation

4. From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

1. Senses, Brain & Responses: Use a model to describe that animals receive information through their senses, process it in their brain, and respond in different ways
2. Structures for Survival: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behaviour, and reproduction

5. Waves and their Applications In Technologies For Information Transfer

1. How We See Objects: Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen
2. Waves & How They Move: Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength, and understand that waves can cause objects to move

6. Energy

1. How energy travels around: Observe and provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents
2. Building an energy-converting device: Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another
3. Speed and energy: Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object
4. What happens when things collide: Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide

7. EARTH’S SYSTEM

1. How animals adapt to environments: Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment and understand that adaptation may lead to evolution over time
2. How Plant Parts Work: Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots absorb water and nutrients, stems transport materials, leaves make food, flowers enable reproduction
3. Ring of Fire: Recognise that volcanoes and earthquakes tend to happen in certain places — especially around the edges of the Pacific Ocean (Ring of Fire) — not randomly across the Earth
4. Earth's atmosphere: Develop a model to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere interact as connected Earth systems

8. EARTH’S PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE

1. Rock Layers & Relative Dating: Understand that rock layers (strata) form in sequence with the oldest at the bottom and the youngest at the top, and that fossils found in deeper layers are older — this is the principle of relative dating