4.E: Energy

4-PS3-1: Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

Sled Wars

4-PS3-2: Make observations to provide evidence that energy is conserved as it is transferred and/or converted from one form to another.

Circuit Builder
Conduction and Convection
Energy Conversions
Heat Absorption
Radiation

4-PS3-3: Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.

Sled Wars

4-PS3-4: Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Circuit Builder
Energy Conversions

4-ESS3-1: Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.

Carbon Cycle
Energy Conversions
Greenhouse Effect
Greenhouse Effect - Metric

4.W: Waves: Waves and Information

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.

Waves

4-PS4-3: Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.

Programmable Rover

2.2.2: Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions: Constructing explanations and designing solutions in 3–5 builds on K–2 experiences and progresses to the use of evidence in constructing explanations that specify variables that describe and predict phenomena and in designing multiple solutions to design problems.

2.2.2.1: Generate and compare multiple solutions to a problem based on how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the design solution.

Digestive System
Programmable Rover
Trebuchet

4.SFI: Structure, Function, and Information Processing

4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Circulatory System
Comparing Climates (Customary)
Comparing Climates (Metric)
Digestive System
Flower Pollination
Honeybee Hive
Senses

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.

Honeybee Hive
Senses

4.ES: Earth’s Systems: Processes that Shape the Earth

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.

Erosion Rates
River Erosion
Weathering

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.

Erosion Rates
River Erosion
Weathering

4-ESS2-2: Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.

Building Pangaea
Building Topographic Maps
Reading Topographic Maps

4-ESS3-2: Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.

4.4.2: Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions: Constructing explanations and designing solutions in 3– 5 builds on K–2 experiences and progresses to the use of evidence in constructing explanations that specify variables that describe and predict phenomena and in designing multiple solutions to design problems.

4.4.2.1: Generate and compare multiple solutions to a problem based on how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the design solution.

Digestive System
Programmable Rover
Trebuchet