Gizmos for Alabama - Science: 4th Grade (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: : Energy

1.1: : Speed and Energy

1.1.1: : Students will… Use evidence to explain the relationship between the speed of an object and its energy.

1.2: : Transference of Energy

1.2.2: : Students will… Plan and carry out investigations to answer questions regarding changes in energy when objects collide, and predict reasonable outcomes based on observed patterns.

1.2.3: : Students will… Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that energy is transferred by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

1.2.3.b: : Construct an explanation with evidence supporting the claim that different objects can absorb, reflect, and/or conduct energy.

1.2.4: : Students will… Design, construct, and test a device that changes energy from one form to another.

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

2.1: : Wave Properties

2.1.5: : Students will… Develop and use models to describe amplitude and wavelength patterns and how waves can cause objects to move.

2.2: : Information Transfer

2.2.6: : Students will… Construct an explanation of how light, sound, and digitized information are transferred by waves.

2.3: : Wave Properties

2.3.7: : Students will… Develop a model to demonstrate that light reflecting from objects and entering the eyes allow objects to be seen.

3: : From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

3.1: : Internal and External Structures

3.1.8: : Students will… Make a claim, using evidence, that the functions of both internal and external structures of plants and animals (including humans) support growth, survival, and behavior.

3.2: : Information Processing

3.2.9: : Students will… Carry out investigations to support a claim that different animals receive information through their senses, process that information, and respond in various ways.

4: : Earth’s Systems

4.1: : Water

4.1.10: : Students will… Develop and use a model to describe how water moves through Earth’s systems by the processes of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.

4.2: : Changes Over Time

4.2.11: : Students will… Construct explanations of Earth's changes over time through slow and rapid processes, citing evidence found in rock formations and fossils in rock layers.

4.2.12: : Students will… Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, and vegetation, investigating a single form of weathering or erosion at a time.

4.3: : Physical Features

4.3.13: : Students will… Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features on land and in the ocean.

5: : Earth and Human Activity

5.1: : Natural Resources

5.1.14: : Students will… Gather information to describe how the use of energy derived from renewable and nonrenewable resources affects the environment.

5.2: : Natural Hazard Solutions

5.2.15: : Students will… Design, test, and evaluate a solution that will protect humans from the effects of natural Earth processes.

Correlation last revised: 4/19/2024

Alabama - Science: 4th Grade

Course of Study | Adopted: 2023

1: : Energy

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

3: : From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

4: : Earth’s Systems

5: : Earth and Human Activity