Gizmos for North Carolina - Science: 4th Grade (Standard Course of Study adopted 2023)

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

1: : Motion and Stability- Forces and Interactions

PS.4.1: : Understand how various forces affect the motion of an object.

PS.4.1.1: : Ask questions to summarize the relationship of magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

PS.4.1.2: : Carry out investigations to explain how electrically charged objects push or pull on other objects to produce motion.

2: : Energy

PS.4.2: : Understand that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

PS.4.2.1: : Ask questions to identify basic forms of energy (light, sound, heat, and electrical) that cause motion or create change.

PS.4.2.2: : Use models to explain a simple electrical circuit and the necessary components.

PS.4.2.3: : Carry out investigations on common materials to classify them as insulators or conductors of electricity.

3: : Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

PS.4.3: : Understand the nature of light and how light interacts with objects.

PS.4.3.2: : Carry out investigations to explain how light is refracted and absorbed.

4: : From Molecules to Organisms- Structures and Processes

LS.4.1: : Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations, and behaviors that enable organisms to survive in changing habitats.

LS.4.1.1: : Use models to explain that plants and animals have external structures that function to support survival.

LS.4.1.2: : Use models to explain that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information, and respond to the information in different ways.

LS.4.1.3: : Engage in argument from evidence to explain how differences among animals of the same population sometimes gives individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing in changing habitats.

6: : Earth’s Place in the Universe

ESS.4.1: : Understand the causes of day and night and phases of the moon.

ESS.4.1.1: : Use models to explain the cause of day and night based on the rotation of the Earth on its axis.

ESS.4.1.2: : Use models to explain the repeating pattern of the phases of the moon (new, crescent, quarter, gibbous, and full).

7: : Earth’s Systems

ESS.4.2: : Understand patterns of change in the Earth's surface over time.

ESS.4.2.1: : Carry out investigations to classify minerals using tests for the physical properties of hardness, color, luster, cleavage and streak.

ESS.4.2.2: : Carry out investigations to classify rocks as metamorphic, sedimentary, or igneous based on their composition, how they are formed, and the processes that create them.

ESS.4.2.3: : Use models to explain changes in Earth's surface over time (to include slow changes of erosion and weathering, and fast changes of earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic activity).

8: : Earth and Human Activity

ESS.4.3: : Understand changes caused by human impact on the environment.

ESS.4.3.1: : Ask questions to infer whether changes in an organism's environment are beneficial or harmful.

ESS.4.3.3: : Obtain, evaluate and communicate information to compare solutions to environmental problems impacting plants and animals.

Correlation last revised: 10/12/2023

North Carolina - Science: 4th Grade

Standard Course of Study | Adopted: 2023