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Elementary Elementary Science Grade 4

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Suggested Prerequisites

N/A

Description

This is an intermediate course with concepts across many types of sciences, including Earth Science, Life Science, and Physical Science. Through asking questions, making predictions, making and comparing observations, making inferences, working with others to conduct investigations, explaining the results of investigations, developing models, constructing arguments, and making claims, students learn about magnets, motion of objects, energy, properties of matter, physical weathering and erosion, rocks and minerals, plant and animal life, heredity, resources and the environment, seasonal changes, and Earth’s movement.

Module 1: Matter

-Physical properties of matter (shape, color, hardness, texture, odor and taste)

-Measuring mass and volume as a physical property

-States of water

-Magnets

-Chemical and physical changes in matter

-Scientific investigations

-Observations

-Scientific tools

Module 2: Energy

-Basic forms of energy (light, heat, sound, and electrical)

-Scientific models

-Transfer of heat energy

-Changes in heat energy

-Scientific investigations

-Observations

Module 3: Motion

-Energy of motion

-Causes of motion

-Collisions

-Speed

-Scientific investigations

-Record keeping

Module 4: Rocks and Minerals

-Properties of minerals (hardness, luster, cleavage, color, and streak)

-The rock cycle

-Cause and effect of erosion and physical weathering

-Basic differences between erosion and physical weathering

-Empirical evidence

-Data collection

-Science models

Module 5: Earth's Movement

-Rotation and revolution of Earth

-Relate motion of Earth and apparent movement of the Sun, the Moon, and stars

-Technology and tools in science

-Patterns of stars in the sky

-Space research and its effects

-Observations vs. inferences

Module 6: Exploring Planet Earth

-Earth's resources (renewable and nonrenewable)

-Natural disasters

-Creativity in science

-Appropriate reference materials

-Engineering design process

Module 7: Plants and Animals

-Life cycles of flowering and nonflowering plants

-Pollination and structures necessary for plant reproduction

-Seed dispersal

-Life cycles of animals

-Complete metamorphosis and incomplete metamorphosis

-Animal behaviors, traits, and adaptations

Module 8: The Environment

-Food energy for plants and animals

-The transfer of energy from the Sun to plants and animals through a food chain

-Producers and consumers

-Seasonal changes in plants and animals

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