How to learn Grade 4: Science

Missouri academic standards: Science, Grade 4

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1. Engineering Design · Optimizing the Solution Process

1. Fair testing (age 8+): Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved

2. Engineering Design · Developing Possible Solutions

1. Comparing Possible Solutions: Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints

3. Engineering Design · Defining and Delimiting Engineering Problems

1. Simple Design Problems: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost

4. Earth and Human Activity · Natural Resources

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

5. Earth's Systems · Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale Systems

1. 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

6. Earth's Place in the Universe · The History of Planet Earth

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

7. From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes · Information Processing

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

8. From Molecules to Organisms: Structure and Processes · Structure and Function

1. Structures for Survival: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behaviour, and reproduction

9. Waves and Their Applications in technologies for Information Transfer · Wave Properties

1. 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

10. Energy · Relationship Between Energy and Forces

1. Speed and energy: Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object

11. Energy · Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer

1. Building an energy-converting device: Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another
2. Naming types of energy: Name and use vocabulary for types of energy and energy transfer — kinetic energy, potential energy, heat energy, light energy, sound energy, electrical energy, chemical energy, stored energy, energy transfer, energy transformation — and describe energy changes in familiar situations using these terms

12. Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions · Types of Interaction

1. Friction & Surfaces: Compare how things move on different surfaces, noticing that some surfaces create more friction than others
2. Balanced & Unbalanced Forces: Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object

13. Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions · Forces and Motion

1. Predicting Motion Patterns: Make observations and measurements of an object's motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion