4^th Grade Science Outcomes

Animals

The students will use physical and behavioral characteristics to classify animals.

4-1-1 List and label the five animal kingdoms.

4-1-2 Identify animals that have a backbone and those without a backbone as vertebrates or invertebrates.

4-1-3 Compare and contrast characteristics of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

4-1-4 Classify animal using characteristics of vertebrates and invertebrates.

Students will discriminate factors that shape the earth’s surface and differentiate between the characteristics of minerals and natural resources.

4-2-1 Identify and explain how water, wind, and ice change the shape of the land.

4-2-2 Identify and list objects made from minerals.

4-2-3 Identify and classify minerals by hardness, color and luster.

4-2-4 List natural resources used by people and tell if they are nonrenewable or renewable resources.

4-2-5 Distinguish if objects are made from natural resources or are manufactured.

Students will compare the respiratory, circulatory, and excretory system and write how they keep us healthy.

4-3-1 Identify the respiratory, circulatory and excretory systems.

4-3-2 Diagram the respiratory system and explain the process of breathing.

4-3-3 Label the parts of the heart and the circulatory system and describe how it works.

4-3-4 name parts of the excretory system and list what each organ does.

4-3-5 Write a paragraph telling how you can keep your respiratory, excretory, and circulatory systems healthy.

Students will examine magnetism and electricity to show relationships between magnets and electric current in our everyday lives.

4-4-1 Classify types of materials as magnetic or nonmagnetic.

4-4-2 Identify and illustrate magnetic poles that attract and repel each other.

4-4-3 Draw and identify magnetic field of a magnet.

4-4-4 Identify which materials are conductors and which are insulators of electricity.

4-4-5 Construct a circuit that will light a light bulb.

4-4-6 Label series and parallel circuits.

4-4-7 Write about how magnets and electricity are used in our everyday life.

Students will create an interview on how science is used in different careers and everyday life.

4-5-1 Brainstorm people to interview.

4-5-2 Develop two questions for interview.

4-5-3 Record answers to interview questions.

4-5-4 Write a report using interview questions on how science is used in different careers and personal lives.

4-5-5 Use report to share results of interview on science in different careers to class.

Students will predict the weather using science tools and science processes.

4-6-1 Identify gases that make up air and compare the amounts of each in a graph.

4-6-2 Explain the green house effect and why it is important.

4-6-3 List different kinds of weather that occur in the troposphere.

4-6-4 Label the water cycle and explain how it works.

4-6-5 Identify tools used to measure weather and write what each one measures.

4-6-6 Identify and describe cumulonimbus, cumulus, stratus, and cirrus clouds to predict changes in the weather.

4-6-7 Construct a barometer, wind vane, anemometer, and rain gauge.

4-6-8 Predict weather and support predictions with student-collected data using student made weather instruments.