Grade 4

Units

Students Will Be Able To:

Construct an argument with evidence that in a habitat, some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all and explore their schoolyard to collect evidence.
Identify living and non-living organisms in a stream sample ecosystem.
Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
Evaluate the effects that changes in the Chesapeake Bay have had on living and non-living things in the ecosystem.
Use the Engineering and Design Process to design a tank ecosystem in their classroom.

Students Will Be Able To:

Construct an explanation of speed by observing how timing and distance effect speed to determine the speed of an object is related to the energy of an object.
Students will identify cause and effect relationships by experimenting with model car ramps to explain changes in speed.
Observe that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
Create, build, and diagram working circuits
Identify and describe renewable resources and how they impact the environment. Some resources are renewable and others are
Use the engineering and design process to develop a plan and engineer a solar oven in order to prove that energy can be transformed from one form to another.

Students Will Be Able To:

Identify parts of a wave and communicate how force impacts physical waves and sound waves.
Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.
Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move
Use the Engineering and Design Process to generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.