Category: Grade 4 Science

Earth’s Systems: Processes That Shape The Earth: Students learn about short and long term events/processes that shape our land.  They explore the varied shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water found on Earth.

In Part I, Students explore how energy can be transferred by/from moving objects, sound, light, heat, or electric currents. When moving objects collide the object’s motion changes. Students learn about the different types of energy; where and how we find and use this energy. In Part II, students learn properties of waves and how we use this information to design high tech devices, and transmit digitized information.

Students will spend time observing plants and animals to gather evidence that organisms are living systems. They will develop an understanding that plants and animals have external and internal structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior and reproduction.  Students use the concept of systems to understand that every animal has internal and external structures that allow it to take in information from the environment in which it lives, process that information, and respond in ways that increase its chances to grow, reproduce, and survive.