4.0: Overall Skills and Attitudes

4.0.1: Initiating

4.0.1.b: Make and justify predictions based on observed patterns, collected data, or data provided from other sources.

Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Pendulum Clock

4.0.3: Planning

4.0.3.b: Identify, in small groups, variables that have an impact on an investigation.

Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Pendulum Clock

4.0.4: Implementing a Plan

4.0.4.c: Test an object, device, or system with respect to pre-determined criteria.

Pendulum Clock
Trebuchet

4.0.5: Observing, Measuring, Recording

4.0.5.a: Select and use tools to observe, measure, and construct.

Measuring Volume
Weight and Mass

4.0.5.b: Estimate and measure mass/weight, length, volume, area, and temperature using standard units.

Weight and Mass

4.0.8: Reflecting on Science and Technology

4.0.8.a: Recognize that experimental results may vary slightly when carried out by different persons, or at different times or places; but that if the results of repeated experiments are very different, something must be wrong with the design of the experiment.

Growing Plants

4.1: Habitats and Communities

4.1.10: Recognize that the food chain is a system in which some of the energy from the Sun is transferred eventually to animals.

Prairie Ecosystem

4.1.11: Construct food chains and food webs, and classify organisms according to their roles.

Forest Ecosystem
Prairie Ecosystem

4.2: Light

4.2.01: Use appropriate vocabulary related to their investigations of light.

Heat Absorption
Radiation

4.2.02: Give examples of various forms of energy.

Energy Conversions

4.2.04: Demonstrate that white light can be separated into colours.

Additive Colors

4.2.08: Explore to determine effects different materials and objects have on a light beam.

Radiation

4.2.09: Recognize that most objects that produce light also give off heat, and identify objects that produce light but give off little or no heat.

Heat Absorption
Radiation

4.2.12: Predict the location, shape, and size of a shadow based on the position of a light source relative to an object.

Penumbra Effect

4.4: Rocks, Minerals and Erosion

4.4.02: Classify rocks and minerals according to student-generated criteria.

Mineral Identification

4.4.03: Test to determine characteristics of rocks and properties of minerals, and classify accordingly.

Mineral Identification

Correlation last revised: 11/28/2023

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