Essential Standards
4.P.1: Explain how various forces affect the motion of an object.
4.P.1.2: Explain how electrically charged objects push or pull on other electrically charged objects and produce motion.
4.P.2: Understand the composition and properties of matter before and after they undergo a change or interaction.
4.P.2.1: Compare the physical properties of samples of matter (strength, hardness, flexibility, ability to conduct heat, ability to conduct electricity, ability to be attracted by magnets, reactions to water and fire).
Circuit Builder
Mineral Identification
4.P.2.2: Explain how minerals are identified using tests for the physical properties of hardness, color, luster, cleavage and streak.
4.P.3: Recognize that energy takes various forms that may be grouped based on their interaction with matter.
4.P.3.2: Recognize that light travels in a straight line until it strikes an object or travels from one medium to another, and that light can be reflected, refracted, and absorbed.
Color Absorption
Heat Absorption
4.E.1: Explain the causes of day and night and phases of the moon.
4.E.1.1: Explain the cause of day and night based on the rotation of Earth on its axis.
4.E.2: Understand the use of fossils and changes in the surface of the earth as evidence of the history of Earth and its changing life forms.
4.E.2.3: Give examples of how the surface of the earth changes due to slow processes such as erosion and weathering, and rapid processes such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes.
Correlation last revised: 3/29/2018