4th grade will follow the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
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Magic School Bus: Inside Ralphie
Chapter 1: Classifying Plants and Animals - click here for study guide
Essential Question: What are some ways to classify living things?
Vocabulary: cell, nucleus, cytoplasm, chloroplast, genus, species,
vertebrates
Building Pangaea
Building Topographic Maps
Reading Topographic Maps
Virtual Microscope- Cells Alive
Virtual Microscope 2
Discovery Education Microscope
Microscope Tutorial at BrainPop
Kingdoms of Life video
Vertebrates Slide Show
Invertebrates Slide Show
Animal Adaptation Slide Show
Classify Kingdoms Activity 1
Classify Kingdoms Activity 2
Classify Kingdom Activity 3
Classify Kingdom Activity 4
Plant Cell Tutorial
Kingdoms Tutorial
Chapter 2: Energy From Plants - click here for study guide
Essential Question: What features help plants make their own food and reproduce?
Vocabulary: photosynthesis, chlorophyll, sepal, pistil, stamen, dormant
Flower Pollination
Pollination- Flower to Fruit
Chapter 5: Body Systems - click here for study guide
Essential Question: How do the body's biggest and smallest parts work together?
Vocabulary: immune system, infectious disease, involuntary muscles, neuron, pathogens, vaccine, voluntary muscles
4-LS1-1. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction
4-LS1-2. Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.
Chapter 8: Rocks and Minerals - click here for study guide
Essential Question: How can rocks tell us about Earth's past, present, and future?
Vocabulary: mineral, luster, sediment, sedimentary rock, igneous rock, metamorphic rock
Rock Cycle 1
Rock Cycle 2
Rock Tester
Rock Lesson Tutorial
Chapter 9: Changes to Earth's Surface? - Click here for study guide
Essential Question: How is Earth's surface shaped and reshaped?
Vocabulary: landform, weathering, erosion, deposition, landslide, fault,
volcano, earthquake, epicenter
Changes in Earth's Surface Tutorial
Volcano Tutorial
Natural Disaster Activity
Disaster Master Activity
Chapter 10: Using Natural Resources - click here for study guide
Essential Question: How can living things always have the natural resources they need?
Vocabulary: solar energy, humus, solar cells, ore, fossil fuels,
petroleum, conservation, recycling
Energy Conversions
Greenhouse Effect
4-ESS1-1. Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
4-ESS2-1. Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation
4-ESS2-2. Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.
4- PS3-1. Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
4-PS3-2. Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
4-PS3-3. Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.
4.PS3-4. Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
4-PS4-1. Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.
4-PS4-3. Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.
Chapter 12: Heat
Essential Question: How does heat energy move from one object to another?
Heat Absorption
Radiation
Heat Study Jams
Heat Transfer
Chapter 14: Sound and Light
Essential Question: How do light and sound travel?
Circuit Builder
Conduction and Convection
Energy Conversion
Waves
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Sound Study Jams
Chapter 15: Objects in Motion
Essential Question: What causes motion and how does it affect us?
Sled Wars
4- PS3-1. Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
4-PS3-2. Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
4-PS3-3. Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.
4.PS3-4. Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
4-PS4-1. Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.
4-PS4-3. Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.
3-5-ETS1-1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
3-5-ETS1-2. Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
3-5-ETS1-3. 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.