Gizmos for Texas - Science: 4th Grade (Essential Knowledge and Skills adopted 2021)

This correlation lists the recommended Gizmos for this state's curriculum standards. Click any Gizmo title below for more information.

4.1: : Scientific and engineering practices. The student asks questions, identifies problems, and plans and safely conducts classroom, laboratory, and field investigations to answer questions, explain phenomena, or design solutions using appropriate tools and models.

4.1.B: : The student is expected to: use scientific practices to plan and conduct descriptive investigations and use engineering practices to design solutions to problems;

4.1.D: : The student is expected to: use tools, including hand lenses; metric rulers; Celsius thermometers; calculators; laser pointers; mirrors; digital scales; balances; graduated cylinders; beakers; hot plates; meter sticks; magnets; notebooks; timing devices; sieves; materials for building circuits; materials to support observation of habitats of organisms such as terrariums, aquariums, and collecting nets; and materials to support digital data collection such as computers, tablets, and cameras, to observe, measure, test, and analyze information;

4.1.E: : The student is expected to: collect observations and measurements as evidence;

4.1.F: : The student is expected to: construct appropriate graphic organizers used to collect data, including tables, bar graphs, line graphs, tree maps, concept maps, Venn diagrams, flow charts or sequence maps, and input-output tables that show cause and effect; and

4.1.G: : The student is expected to: develop and use models to represent phenomena, objects, and processes or design a prototype for a solution to a problem.

4.2: : Scientific and engineering practices. The student analyzes and interprets data to derive meaning, identify features and patterns, and discover relationships or correlations to develop evidence-based arguments or evaluate designs.

4.2.B: : The student is expected to: analyze data by identifying any significant features, patterns, or sources of error;

4.3: : Scientific and engineering practices. The student develops evidence-based explanations and communicates findings, conclusions, and proposed solutions.

4.3.A: : The student is expected to: develop explanations and propose solutions supported by data and models;

4.3.B: : The student is expected to: communicate explanations and solutions individually and collaboratively in a variety of settings and formats; and

4.5: : Recurring themes and concepts. The student understands that recurring themes and concepts provide a framework for making connections across disciplines.

4.5.B: : The student is expected to: identify and investigate cause-and-effect relationships to explain scientific phenomena or analyze problems;

4.5.E: : The student is expected to: investigate how energy flows and matter cycles through systems and how matter is conserved;

4.5.G: : The student is expected to: explain how factors or conditions impact stability and change in objects, organisms, and systems.

4.6: : Matter and energy. The student knows that matter has measurable physical properties that determine how matter is identified, classified, changed, and used.

4.6.A: : The student is expected to: classify and describe matter using observable physical properties, including temperature, mass, magnetism, relative density (the ability to sink or float in water), and physical state (solid, liquid, gas);

4.7: : Force, motion, and energy. The student knows the nature of forces and the patterns of their interactions. The student is expected to plan and conduct descriptive investigations to explore the patterns of forces such as gravity, friction, or magnetism in contact or at a distance on an object.

4.7: : Force, motion, and energy. The student knows the nature of forces and the patterns of their interactions. The student is expected to plan and conduct descriptive investigations to explore the patterns of forces such as gravity, friction, or magnetism in contact or at a distance on an object.

4.8: : Force, motion, and energy. The student knows that energy is everywhere and can be observed in cycles, patterns, and systems.

4.8.A: : The student is expected to: investigate and identify the transfer of energy by objects in motion, waves in water, and sound;

4.8.B: : The student is expected to: identify conductors and insulators of thermal and electrical energy; and

4.8.C: : The student is expected to: demonstrate and describe how electrical energy travels in a closed path that can produce light and thermal energy.

4.9: : Earth and space. The student recognizes patterns among the Sun, Earth, and Moon system and their effects.

4.9.A: : The student is expected to: collect and analyze data to identify sequences and predict patterns of change in seasons such as change in temperature and length of daylight; and

4.9.B: : The student is expected to: collect and analyze data to identify sequences and predict patterns of change in the observable appearance of the Moon from Earth.

4.1: : Earth and space. The student knows that there are processes on Earth that create patterns of change.

4.10.A: : The student is expected to: describe and illustrate the continuous movement of water above and on the surface of Earth through the water cycle and explain the role of the Sun as a major source of energy in this process;

4.10.B: : The student is expected to: model and describe slow changes to Earth's surface caused by weathering, erosion, and deposition from water, wind, and ice; and

4.10.C: : The student is expected to: differentiate between weather and climate.

4.12: : Organisms and environments. The student describes patterns, cycles, systems, and relationships within environments.

4.12.A: : The student is expected to: investigate and explain how most producers can make their own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide through the cycling of matter;

4.12.B: : The student is expected to: describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy through food webs, including the roles of the Sun, producers, consumers, and decomposers; and

4.13: : Organisms and environments. The student knows that organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that function to help them survive within their environments.

4.13.A: : The student is expected to: explore and explain how structures and functions of plants such as waxy leaves and deep roots enable them to survive in their environment; and

4.13.B: : The student is expected to: differentiate between inherited and acquired physical traits of organisms.

Correlation last revised: 6/29/2023

Texas - Science: 4th Grade

Essential Knowledge and Skills | Adopted: 2021

4.1: : Scientific and engineering practices. The student asks questions, identifies problems, and plans and safely conducts classroom, laboratory, and field investigations to answer questions, explain phenomena, or design solutions using appropriate tools and models.

4.2: : Scientific and engineering practices. The student analyzes and interprets data to derive meaning, identify features and patterns, and discover relationships or correlations to develop evidence-based arguments or evaluate designs.

4.3: : Scientific and engineering practices. The student develops evidence-based explanations and communicates findings, conclusions, and proposed solutions.

4.5: : Recurring themes and concepts. The student understands that recurring themes and concepts provide a framework for making connections across disciplines.

4.6: : Matter and energy. The student knows that matter has measurable physical properties that determine how matter is identified, classified, changed, and used.

4.7: : Force, motion, and energy. The student knows the nature of forces and the patterns of their interactions. The student is expected to plan and conduct descriptive investigations to explore the patterns of forces such as gravity, friction, or magnetism in contact or at a distance on an object.

4.8: : Force, motion, and energy. The student knows that energy is everywhere and can be observed in cycles, patterns, and systems.

4.9: : Earth and space. The student recognizes patterns among the Sun, Earth, and Moon system and their effects.

4.1: : Earth and space. The student knows that there are processes on Earth that create patterns of change.

4.12: : Organisms and environments. The student describes patterns, cycles, systems, and relationships within environments.

4.13: : Organisms and environments. The student knows that organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that function to help them survive within their environments.