Academic Standards
SC.4.1.1.a: Students can: Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
SC.4.1.2.a: Students can: Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat and electric currents.
Circuit Builder
Conduction and Convection
Energy Conversions
Heat Absorption
Radiation
SC.4.1.3.a: Students can: Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.
SC.4.1.4.a: Students can: Apply scientific ideas to design, test and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
Circuit Builder
Energy Conversions
1.4.3: Academic Context and Connections
1: Apply scientific ideas to solve design problems. (Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions) (Entrepreneurial: Inquiry/Analysis).
SC.4.1.5.a: Students can: Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.
SC.4.1.7.a: Students can: Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.
SC.4.2.1.a: Students can: 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
SC.4.2.1.b: Students can: 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.
SC.4.3.1.a: Students can: 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
SC.4.3.2.a: Students can: 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
SC.4.3.3.a: Students can: Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.
Building Pangaea
Building Topographic Maps
Reading Topographic Maps
SC.4.3.4.a: Students can: 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
Correlation last revised: 8/16/2022