Science
SCIENCE
INTELLECTUAL & DISPOSITIONAL STANDARDS
1. Use evidence and skills of scientific investigation/argumentation to interpret patterns related to the transfer of matter and energy on Earth in physical interactions and in organisms.
2. Compare and contrast the motion, transfer, and conversion of energy based on objects existing in different physical contexts.
3. Provide evidence to support arguments about patterns of change over time related to the deposition and erosion of landscape formations.
4. Describe the internal and external structures that support animal life, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
5. Use the engineering design process to build, test, and redesign prototypes to fit specific purposes or solve specific problems.
6. Through application of content learned during this grade, provide evidence that all eight Science and Engineering Practices appropriate for this grade level (State Frameworks, Appendix I, pp. 106-121) have been developed.
7. Through application of content learned during this grade, provide evidence of a developing appreciation of the relationships, elements, underlying order, harmony, and meaning of God’s creation.
8. Through application of content learned during this grade, provide evidence of a developing understanding that the use of scientific investigation and argumentation can be directed toward the preservation and conservation of the creation God has given us.
CONTENT, KNOWLEDGE & SKILL STANDARDS
Earth and Space Sciences
Earth’s Place in the Universe
1. Use evidence from a given landscape that includes simple landforms and rock layers to support a claim about the role of erosion or deposition in the formation of the landscape over long periods of time. [4-ESS1-1]
Earth’s Systems
2. Make observations and collect data to provide evidence that rocks, soils, and sediments are broken into smaller pieces through mechanical weathering and moved around through erosion. [4-ESS2-1]
3. Analyze and interpret maps of Earth’s mountain ranges, deep ocean trenches, volcanoes, and earthquake epicenters to describe patterns of these features and their locations relative to boundaries between continents and oceans. [4-ESS2-2]
Earth and Human Activity
4. Obtain information to describe that energy and fuels humans use are derived from natural resources and that some energy and fuel sources are renewable and some are not. [4- ESS3-1]
5. Evaluate different solutions to reduce the impacts of a natural event such as an
earthquake, blizzard, or flood on humans. [4-ESS3-2]
Life Science
From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
6. Construct an argument that animals and plants have internal and external structures that support their survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. [4-LS1-1]
Physical Science
Energy
7. Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object. [4-PS3-1]
8. Make observations to show that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents. [4-PS3-2]
9. Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide. [4-PS3-3]
10. Apply scientific principles of energy and motion to test and refine a device that converts kinetic energy to electrical energy or uses stored energy to cause motion or produce light or sound. [4-PS3-4]
Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer
11. Develop a model of a simple mechanical wave (including sound) to communicate that waves (a) are regular patterns of motion along which energy travels and (b) can cause objects to move. [4-PS4-1]
12. Develop a model to describe that light must reflect off an object and enter the eye for the object to be seen. [4-PS4-2]
13. Develop and compare multiple ways to transfer information through encoding, sending, receiving, and decoding a pattern. [4-PS4-3]
Technology/Engineering
Engineering Design
14. Plan and carry out tests of one or more design features of a given model or prototype in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify which features need to be improved. Apply the results of tests to redesign a model or prototype. [3-5-ETS1-3] 15. Evaluate relevant design features that must be considered in building a model or prototype of a solution to a given design problem. [4.3-5-ETS1-5(MA)]