4th Grade Science Content Standards; alignment,
activities, curriculum, and proficiencies.
Physical SciencesStandard
Concept
1.
Electricity and
magnetism are
related effects
that have many
useful
applications in
everyday life.
As a basis for
understanding
this concept,
students know:
a.
how to design
and build
simple series
and parallel
circuits using
components
such as wires,
batteries, and
bulbs.
Activities
Text
Guest Speakers: FOSSElectricians
PG &E
Mr. Wizard
Magnetism and
Electricity
Proficiency in
vocabulary &
instruments
Batteries and
knowing
voltage
Connectors
Screwdrivers
Circuits parallel
and in a series
Alligator clip
Wire strippers
Bulbs
wire
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4th Grade Science Content Standards; alignment,
activities, curriculum, and proficiencies.
Physical SciencesStandard
Concept
Activities
Text
b.
. how to build a
simple compass
and use it to
detect magnetic
effects,
including
Earth's
magnetic field
Nails can
become a
compass and
point to
magnetic North
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c.
d.
Magnetism and
Electricity
electric currents Students build
produce
magnets and
magnetic fields test polarity
and how to
build a simple
electromagnet.
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the role of
electromagnets
in the
construction of
electric motors,
electric
generators, and
simple devices
such as
doorbells and
earphones.
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Radio Shack
Kits and
projects from
home
supervised by
teacher/wire a
motor, speaker,
and buzzer
Field trip to
Shasta Dam to
observe the
Turbines which
are big
electrical
magnets/resulti
ng in the
generation of
electrical
energy
Proficiency in
vocabulary &
instruments
Magnetism and
Electricity
Repel and
attraction
Magnetism and
Electricity
Magnetism and
Electricity
Science Stories
FOSS Web
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4th Grade Science Content Standards; alignment,
activities, curriculum, and proficiencies.
Physical SciencesStandard
Concept
Activities
Text
Proficiency in
vocabulary &
instruments
e.
electrically
charged objects
attract or repel
each other.
Students should
handle and feel
the attraction
and repulsion
and be able to
explain the
concept
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Repulsion and
attractionunder glass,
paper, and
desktops
f.
g.
magnets have
two poles,
labeled north
and south, and
like poles repel
each other
while unlike
poles attract
each other.
electrical
energy can be
converted to
heat, light and
motion.
Magnetism and
Electricity
Magnetism and
Electricity
Science Stories
FOSSMagnetism and
Electricity
Magnetism and
Electricity
Science Stories
Demonstrate
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dryer or heating Magnetism and
Electricity
element
Magnetism and
Electricity
Students build a Science Stories
flashlight with
a ruler, tape,
batteries and
wire
Electrical tape
Ruler
D-cell batteries
bulb
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4th Grade Science Content Standards; alignment,
activities, curriculum, and proficiencies.
Life SciencesStandard
Concept
Activities
Text
Proficiency in
vocabulary &
instruments
Life Sciences2.
2. All
organisms need
energy and
matter to live
and grow.
FOSSStructures of
Life
Structures of
Life Science
Stories
All students
should know:
a.
b.
a. plants are the
primary source
of matter and
energy entering
most food
chains.
Field trip or
guest speaker
from CDF
b. producers
and consumers
(herbivores,
carnivores,
omnivores, and
decomposers)
are related in
food chains and
food webs, and
may compete
with each other
for resources in
an ecosystem.
Students create
reports on
producers,
consumers,
herbivores,
carnivores, and
omnivores.
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Life
Structures of
Life Science
Stories
Students make
a simulated
food web using
string
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Vocabulary:
Structures of
Life
Herbivore
Structures of
Life Science
Stories
Carnivore
Omnivore
Producer
Consumer
Food chain and
web
Ecosystem
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4th Grade Science Content Standards; alignment,
activities, curriculum, and proficiencies.
Life SciencesStandard
Concept
Activities
Text
C.
c. decomposers,
including many
fungi, insects,
and
microorganisms
, recycle matter
from dead
plants and
animals.
Arrange for a
biologist or
spokesperson
from NEED
camp to
discuss.
OBIS kits
Proficiency in
vocabulary &
instruments
Outdoor
Biological
Instructional
Strategies kits
Look up on
Internet
3. Living organisms depend on one another and on their environment for survival.
As a basis for understanding this concept, students know:
Standard
Concept
Activities
Text
a.
a. ecosystems
can be
characterized in
terms of their
living and
nonliving
components.
Create a list of
non-living an
living items
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b. for any
particular
environment,
some kinds of
plants and
animals survive
well, some
survive less
well, and some
cannot survive
at all.
Create
environments
for plants:
Desert-cacti,
mountainsconifers, etc..
b.
Proficiency in
vocabulary &
instruments
Structures of
Life
Structures of
Life Science
Stories
FOSSStructures of
Life
Structures of
Life Science
Stories
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4th Grade Science Content Standards; alignment,
activities, curriculum, and proficiencies.
Life SciencesStandard
Concept
Activities
Text
c.
c. many plants
depend on
animals for
pollination and
seed dispersal,
while animals
depend on
plants for food
and shelter.
Students
generate a list
of plants that
require
polinization(e.g., cherry
tree) Invite a
beekeeper who
also has an
orchard as a
guest speaker
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d.
Proficiency in
vocabulary &
instruments
Structures of
Life
Structures of
Life Science
Stories
d. most
microorganisms
do not cause
disease and
many are
beneficial.
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4th Grade Science Content Standards; alignment,
activities, curriculum, and proficiencies.
Earth SciencesStandard
Concept
Activities
Text
Proficiency in
vocabulary &
instruments
Proficiency in
vocabulary &
instruments
Earth SciencesStandard
Concept
Activities
Text
4.
4. The
properties of
rocks and
minerals reflect
the processes
that formed
them.
As a basis for
understanding
this concept,
students know:
CDF has guest
speakers who
will come to
class and show
pictures of
local landforms
and how rock
are made
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a. how to
differentiate
among igneous,
sedimentary,
and
metamorphic
rocks by their
properties and
methods of
formation (the
rock cycle).
CDF has guest
speakers who
will come to
class and show
pictures of
local landforms
and how rock
are made
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a.
Earth Materials
Earth Materials
Science Stories
Earth Materials
Earth Materials
Science Stories
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4th Grade Science Content Standards; alignment,
activities, curriculum, and proficiencies.
Earth SciencesStandard
Concept
Activities
Text
Proficiency in
vocabulary &
instruments
b.
b. how to
identify
common rockforming
minerals
(including
quartz, calcite,
feldspar, mica,
and
hornblende)
and ore
minerals using
a table of
diagnostic
properties.
Use the rock
wall on the
campus
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Vocab
Earth Materials
quartz, calcite,
feldspar, mica,
and hornblende
Earth Materials
Science Stories
magnifying
glass
Rock and
mineral chart
5. Waves, wind, water, and ice shape and reshape the Earth's land surface.
As a basis for understanding this concept, students know:
a.
a. some
changes in the
Earth are due to
slow processes,
such as erosion,
and some
changes are due
to rapid
processes, such
as landslides,
volcanic
eruptions, and
earthquakes.
Run water
down the
slanted ground
outside room
18 to
demonstrate
erosion and
river forming
FOSSEarth Materials
Understanding
of plate
tectonics
Earth Materials
Science Stories
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4th Grade Science Content Standards; alignment,
activities, curriculum, and proficiencies.
Physical SciencesStandard
Concept
b.
b. natural
processes,
including
freezing/
c.
Activities
Text
Proficiency in
vocabulary &
instruments
CDF has guest
speakers who
will come to
class and show
pictures of
thawing and
trees growing
growth of roots, through rock –
cause rocks to
They will also
break down
bring in
into smaller
samples
pieces.
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c. moving water
erodes
landforms,
reshaping the
land by taking
it away from
some places
and depositing
it as pebbles,
sand, silt, and
mud in other
places
(weathering,
transport, and
deposition).
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Erosion
Earth Materials
Landforms
Earth Materials
Science Stories
Deposits
The movie- The
Grand Canyon
Suite has many
good pictures
of land being
reshaped from
water erosion
Earth Materials
Earth Materials
Science Stories
silt
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4th Grade Science Content Standards; alignment,
activities, curriculum, and proficiencies.
Investigation and ExperimentationStandard
Concept
Activities
Text
Proficiency in
vocabulary &
instruments
6. Investigation and Experimentation6.
Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and
conducting careful investigations.
As a basis for understanding this concept, and to address the content
the other three strands, students should develop their own questions
and perform investigations. Students will:
a.
b.
c.
a. differentiate
observation
from inference
(interpretation),
and know that
scientists
explanations
come partly
from what they
observe and
partly from
how they
interpret their
observations.
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b. measure and
estimate
weight, length,
or volume of
objects.
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formulate
predictions and
justify
predictions based
on cause and
effect
relationships.
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Earth Materials
Earth Materials
Science Stories
Magnetism and
Electricity
Measurement
Measurement
Magnetism and
Electricity
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4th Grade Science Content Standards; alignment,
activities, curriculum, and proficiencies.
Physical SciencesStandard
Concept
d.
d. conduct
multiple trials
to test a
prediction and
draw
conclusions
about the
relationships
between results
and predictions.
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e. construct and
interpret graphs
from
measurements.
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e.
Activities
Text
Proficiency in
vocabulary &
instruments
Human Body
Earth Materials
Magnetism and
Electricity
Structures of
Life
Measurement
f.
f. follow a set
of written
instructions for
a scientific
investigation.
FOSSEarth Materials
Magnetism and
Electricity
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