Investigating energy, matter, and Earth's processes
Explore science through investigation! The Grade 4 Science curriculum builds scientific thinking through exploration of energy, waves, structure and function, and Earth's dynamic systems.
Investigate physical, life, and Earth science through evidence-based inquiry
Grade 4 · Science
Investigate forms of energy, energy transfer, and how energy can be transformed from one form to another.
Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
36 specific outcomesMake observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
40 specific outcomesAsk questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide
18 specific outcomesApply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
25 specific outcomesObtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and that their uses affect the environment
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Explore the properties of waves and how light and sound travel, reflect, and carry information.
Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move
67 specific outcomesGenerate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information
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Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen.
31 specific outcomesConstruct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
18 specific outcomesUse a model to describe that animals receive different information through their senses, process it in their brain and respond to it differently
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Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time
19 specific outcomesMake observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation
19 specific outcomesAnalyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features
25 specific outcomesGenerate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans
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