4-PS3: Energy

4-PS3-1: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

Sled Wars

4-PS3-2: Students who demonstrate understanding 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

4-PS3-3: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.

Sled Wars

4-PS3-4: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Circuit Builder
Energy Conversions

4-PS4: Waves and their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

4-PS4-1: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.

Waves

4-PS4-2: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen.

Eyes and Vision 1 - Seeing Color
Eyes and Vision 2 - Focusing Light

4-PS4-3: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.

Programmable Rover

4-LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

4-LS1-1: Students who demonstrate understanding 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
Animal Group Behavior

4-LS1-2: Students who demonstrate understanding 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.

Eyes and Vision 2 - Focusing Light
Eyes and Vision 3 - Sensing Light
Honeybee Hive
Senses
Animal Group Behavior

4-ESS1: Earth’s Place in the Universe

4-ESS1-1: Students who demonstrate understanding 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

4-ESS2: Earth’s Systems

4-ESS2-1: Students who demonstrate understanding 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

4-ESS2-2: Students who demonstrate understanding can: Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.

Building Pangaea
Building Topographic Maps
Plate Tectonics
Reading Topographic Maps

4-ESS3: Earth and Human Activity

4-ESS3-1: Students who demonstrate understanding 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