April 29-May 03
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The following are Tennessee Science Standards and links for enrichment:
4th Grade Science
Checklist for Checks for Understanding
Fourth Grade Academic Vocabulary Words (Quizlet)
Grade 4 : Inquiry
Conceptual Strand Understandings about scientific inquiry and the ability to conduct inquiry are essential for living in the 21st century.
Guiding Question What tools, skills, knowledge, and dispositions are needed to conduct scientific inquiry?
Grade Level Expectations
GLE 0407.Inq.1 Explore different scientific phenomena by asking questions, making logical predictions, planning investigations, and recording data.
Circle Graph PowerPoint
Line Graph PowerPoint
Bar Graph PowerPoint
Pictograph Power Point
Venn Diagram Power Point
GLE 0407.Inq.2 Select and use appropriate tools and simple equipment to conduct an investigation.
GLE 0407.Inq.3 Organize data into appropriate tables, graphs, drawings, or diagrams.
Circle Graph PowerPoint
Line Graph PowerPoint
Bar Graph PowerPoint
Pictograph Power Point
Venn Diagram Power Point
GLE 0407.Inq.4 Identify and interpret simple patterns of evidence to communicate the findings of multiple investigations.
GLE 0407.Inq.5 Recognize that people may interpret the same results in different ways.
GLE 0407.Inq.6 Compare the results of an investigation with what scientists already accept about this question.
Checks for Understanding
 | 0407.Inq.1 Identify specific investigations that could be used to answer a particular question and identify reasons for this choice. |
| 0407.Inq.2 Identify tools needed to investigate specific questions. |
| 0407.Inq.3 Maintain a science notebook that includes observations, data, diagrams, and explanations. |
| 0407.Inq.4 Analyze and communicate findings from multiple investigations of similar phenomena to reach a conclusion. |
State Performance Indicators
SPI 0407.Inq.1 Select an investigation that could be used to answer a specific question.
Grade 4 : Technology & Engineering
Grade Level Expectations
GLE 0407.T/E.1 Describe how tools, technology, and inventions help to answer questions and solve problems
GLE 0407.T/E.2 Recognize that new tools, technology, and inventions are always being developed.
GLE 0407.T/E.3 Identify appropriate materials, tools, and machines that can extend or enhance the ability to solve a specified problem.
Could Australia's Deadly Snakes Put Bite on Cancer?
Invention Playhouse
Wind speed STEM
GLE 0407.T/E.4 Recognize the connection between scientific advances, new knowledge, and the availability of new tools and technologies.
Images of Science.
GLE 0507.T/E.5 Apply a creative design strategy to solve a particular problem generated by societal needs and wants.
Design a Space Station
Break It Down Interactive
Checks for Understanding
| 0407.T/E.1 Explain how different inventions and technologies impact people and other living organisms |
A Sightseer’s Guide to Engineering
| 0407.T/E.2 Design a tool or a process that addresses an identified problem caused by human activity. |
Buoyant Boats
| 0407.T/E.3 Determine criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of a solution to a specified problem. |
Engineering Solution - To use Internet resources to explore the side effects of technology; to design, implement and evaluate solutions related to the problem of waste disposal.
| 0407.T/E.4 Evaluate an invention that solves a problem and determine ways to improve the design. |
Systems, Up, Up and Away!
State Performance Indicators
SPI 0407.T/E.1 Select a tool, technology, or invention that was used to solve a human problem.
The Science Toy Maker Home Page
Wheelchairs - Podcast
SPI 0507.T/E.2 Recognize the connection between a scientific advance and the development of a new tool or technology.
Grade 4 - Life Science
Grade 4 : Standard 1 -Cells
Conceptual Strand 1 All living things are made of cells that perform functions necessary for life.
Guiding Question 1 How are plant and animals cells organized to carry on the processes of life?
Grade Level Expectations
GLE 0407.1.1 Recognize that cells are the building blocks of all living things.
Cell Quiz
The Virtual Electron Microscope
Checks for Understanding
| 0407.1.1 Use illustrations or direct observations to compare and contrast the basic structures of plant and animal cells. |
Interactive Plant and Animal Cells from Cells Alive
Parts of the Cell
A tour of the Cell
Lesson plan—Travel brochure for a cell
| 0407.1.2 Create a basic model of the cell that illustrates different cell structures and describes their functions. |
Cell Inspector
Making 3D Cell Models
How big is a cell?
State Performance Indicators
SPI 0407.1.1 Compare basic structures of plant and animal cells.
Comparing Pant and Animal Cells: A Venn Diagram
Plant and Animal Cell Graphic Organizer
Grade 4: Standard 2 -Interdependence
Conceptual Strand 2 All life is interdependent and interacts with the environment.
Guiding Question 2 How do living things interact with one another and with the non-living elements of their environment?
Grade Level Expectations
GLE 0407.2.1 Analyze the effects of changes in the environment on the stability of an ecosystem.
How changes in the environment keep an ecosystem stable
EPA Water and Ecosystems Services
Checks for Understanding
| 0407.2.1 Analyze how an increase or decrease in competition or predation affects an ecosystem. |
Reconstruct a barren prairie
| 0407.2.2 Design a simple experiment to illustrate the effects of competition, predation, and interdependency among living things. |
State Performance Indicators
SPI 0407.2.1 Recognize the impact of predation and competition on an ecosystem.
Wolves and Rabbits
This Old Habitat
National Geographic Habitats
WWF habitats
List of animals and their habitats
BBC Habitat online activity
BBC Habitats offline lesson
Reconstruct a barren prairie
Grade 4 : Standard 3 -Flow of Matter and Energy
Conceptual Strand 3 Matter and energy flow through the biosphere.
Guiding Question 3 What scientific information explains how matter and energy flow through the biosphere?
Grade Level Expectations
GLE 0407.3.1 Demonstrate that plants require light energy to grow and survive.
I know That - Science Lab Game: Photosynthesis
Grow an Indoor Salad Garden
What is Photosynthesis?
Biology4Kids: Photosynthesis and Light Energy
GLE 0407.3.2 Investigate different ways that organisms meet their energy needs.
Checks for Understanding
| 0407.3.1 Create a food web that illustrates the energy relationships between plants and animals and the key issues or assumptions found in the model. |
Chain Reaction
Food Web Game
What do animals eat?
Root factory—explore types of roots and if they are edible or not
Classify vegetables based on what part we eat
| 0407.3.2 Classify organisms as carnivores, herbivores, or omnivores. |
Herbivore, Carnivore, Omnivore - PowerPoint
Food Chain
| 0407.3.3 Identify how a variety of organisms meet their energy needs. |
Illuminating Photosynthesis
Promethean: Energy in the Ecosystem
State Performance Indicators
SPI 0407.3.1 Determine how different organisms function within an environment in terms of their location on an energy pyramid.
Grade 4: Standard 4 - Heredity
Conceptual Strand 4 Plants and animals reproduce and transmit hereditary information between generations.
Guiding Question 4 What are the principal mechanisms by which living things reproduce and transmit information between parents and offspring?
Grade Level Expectations
GLE 0407.4.1 Recognize the relationship between reproduction and the continuation of a species.
Hatching Baby Chicks
GLE 0407.4.2 Differentiate between complete and incomplete metamorphosi
Complete and Incomplete Metamorphosis
Checks for Understanding
| 0407.4.1 Design a simple demonstration that illustrates the relationship between reproduction and survival of a species. |
| 0407.4.2 Study the life cycles of a variety of organisms and determine whether these processes illustrate complete or incomplete metamorphosis. |
Circle of Life
Grow Up- interactive
Butterfly life cycle
Life cycles--learn about the life cycles of animals
Life cycle cards-printable
Hatching Baby Chicks
DNA Movie
Animals, Babies
Giant Panda
California Condor
Turtles in Trouble
Life Cycle” Plants” Interactive Whiteboard Activity
Life Cycle “Animals” Interactive Whiteboard Activity
State Performance Indicators
SPI 0407.4.1 Draw conclusions about the relationship between reproduction and the survival of a species.
Animals’ Life Cycle - Webquest
SPI 0407.4.2 Distinguish between complete and incomplete metamorphosis
BrainPop Metamorphosis
Grade 4 : Standard 5 -Biodiversity and Change
Ology - Biodiversity A good general page with many activities
Conceptual Strand 5 A rich variety of complex organisms have developed in response to a continually changing environment.
Guiding Question 5 How does natural selection explain how organisms have changed over time?
Grade Level Expectations
GLE 0407.5.1 Analyze physical and behavioral adaptations that enable organisms to survive in their environment.
See how pond life changes based on population of different animals
WWF habitats - Biodiversity
GLE 0407.5.2 Describe how environmental changes caused the extinction of various plant and animal species.
Checks for Understanding
| 0407.5.1 Classify animals according to their physical adaptations for obtaining food, oxygen, and surviving within a particular environment. |
Scholastic: animal adaptations
Rain Forest adaptations
EcoKids- Animal Adaptations
List of animals and their habitats
National Geographic Habitats
Compare ways different animals breathe
| 0407.5.2 Describe how animal behaviors such as migration, defense, means of locomotion, and hibernation enable them to survive in an environment. |
Find Your Way - Salmon migration
| 0407.5.3 Investigate tropisms that plants exhibit in response to changes in their environment. |
Plant Tropisms
| 0407.5.4 Gather fossil information to draw conclusions about organisms that exist today. |
Skeleton Jigsaws
If Rocks Could Talk
Types of fossils
fossils
| 0407.5.5 Analyze the common causes of extinction and explain how human actions sometimes result in the extinction of a species. |
Endangered Species
endangered or threatened?
Save or species- EPA
Extinction
Major causes of extinction
causes of extinction
State Performance Indicators
SPI 0407.5.1 Determine how a physical or behavioral adaptation can enhance the chances of survival.
Design a Fish to Survive
Camouflage Field Guide
Rain Forest adaptations
Promethean Planet: Animal Adaptations
Promethean Planet: Animal Adaptations II
SPI 0407.5.2 Infer the possible reasons why a species became endangered or extinct.
Why do Animals Become Endangered? (Fact Monster)
Wild Times for Kids: Why Do Animals Become Extinct?
Animal Port: Listings of Endangered and Extinct Animals
Animals Myths and Legends
Grade 4 - Earth and Space Science
Grade 4 : Standard 6 -The Universe
Conceptual Strand 6 The cosmos is vast and explored well enough to know its basic structure and operational principles.
Guiding Question 6 What big ideas guide human understanding about the origin and structure of the universe, Earth’s place in the cosmos, and observable motions and patterns in the sky?
math and science integration unit plan
Grade Level Expectations
GLE 0407.6.1 Analyze patterns, relative movements, and relationships among the sun, moon, and earth.
Earth’s Rotation
Checks for Understanding
| 0407.6.1 Chart the movements of the sun, moon, and earth to develop an explanation for the phases of the moon and solar and lunar eclipses. |
Shadows and Sounds
What creates our shadow?
Coloring shadows with a sundial
| 0407.6.2 Sequence the major phases of the moon during a lunar cycle. |
Lunar Cycle Challenge - an interactive site
Simulation of Moon Phases
Moon Phases
State Performance Indicators
SPI 0407.6.1 Organize the phases of the moon in the correct sequence.
Lunar Cycle Challenge - an interactive site
Simulation of Moon Phases
Phases of the moon
math science integration
SPI 0407.6.2 Infer that the moon’s phases are caused by the revolution of the moon and
Grade 4 : Standard 7 – The Earth
Conceptual Strand 7 Major geologic events that occur over eons or brief moments in time continually shape and reshape the surface of the Earth, resulting in continuous global change.
Layers of the Earth
Interactive labeling
The Great Plant Escape
The Dirt on Soil
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/soil/
Guiding Question 7 How is the earth affected by long-term and short term geological cycles and the influence of man.
Grade Level Expectations
GLE 0407.7.1 Investigate how the Earth’s geological features change as a result of erosion (weathering and transportation) and deposition.
Break It Down: Erosion (Geography4Kids)
Erosion: BrainPop
Erosion: Science for Kids
Magic School Bus: Rocks and Rolls Experiment
GLE 0407.7.2 Evaluate how some earth materials can be used to solve human problems and enhance the quality of life.
Checks for Understanding
| 0407.7.1 Prepare a demonstration to illustrate how wind and water affect the earth’s surface features |
| 0407.7.2 Design an investigation to demonstrate how erosion and deposition change the earth’s surface. |
ppt activity How erosion occurs
Scotts Bluff National Monument
Arches National Park
Mesas and Buttes--pictures
canyon pictures
summary of world’s 10 best geological features on earth
| 0407.7.3 List factors that determine the appropriate use of an earth material. |
Minerals in our environment
Earth water filter
A sticky situation: Designing walls
NASA: Soil Science Education
Discovery Science: The Dirt on Soil
Sammy Soil: A coloring book
| 0407.7.4 Use data from a variety of informational texts to analyze and evaluate man’s impact on non-renewable resources. |
energy sources
renewable and non renewable resources
online quiz
Is it environmentally friendly?
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/world/nres.html
State Performance Indicators
SPI 0407.7.1 Design a simple model to illustrate how the wind and movement of water alter the earth’s surface.
How does rain shape the Earth?
erosion and weathering
SPI 0407.7.2 Analyze how different earth materials are utilized to solve human problems or improve the quality of life.
Grade 4 : Standard 8 -The Atmosphere
Conceptual Strand 8 The earth is surrounded by an active atmosphere and an energy system that controls the distribution life, local weather, climate, and global temperature.
Guiding Question 8 How do the physical characteristics and the chemical makeup of the atmosphere influence surface processes and life on Earth?
Weather PowerPoint (also includes instruments)
Cloud Types – Power Point Presentation
Cloud Clues - Activity
Cloudy Weather Crossword
How Clouds Form Lesson Plan
Sunken Treasures Game (weather conditions and instruments)
Weather Watch
weather instruments
Ecokids
Interactive Weather
Grade Level Expectations
GLE 0407.8.1 Recognize the major components of the water cycle.
Diagram of Water Cycle
TIC TAC KNOW Game on Water Cycle
Water Cycle (NASA)
The Water Cycle
Water Cycle animation
Water cycle movie
Diagram of Water Cycle
GLE 0407.8.2 Differentiate between weather and climate.
Weather vs. Climate
EPA Weather vs. Climate
Checks for Understanding
| 0407.8.1 Prepare a model that illustrates the basic features of the water cycle. |
Droplet and the Water Cycle
The Incredible Journey activity can be downloaded as a sample activity from the Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide at www.projectwet.org
| 0407.8.2 Use long term weather data to distinguish between weather and climate. |
| 0407.8.3 Use an illustration to predict and draw conclusions about how weather and climate affect the water cycle. |
Be a Weather Watcher
Oceans
Unit Oceans and Weather
State Performance Indicators
SPI 0407.8.1 Identify the basic features of the water cycle and describe their importance to life on earth.
Evaporation Cleanup
Diagram of Water Cycle
SPI 0407.8.2 Distinguish between weather and climate
Air Pressure
NASA Wild Weather Adventure Game
Weather Tools
Weather Instruments
Grade 4 - Physical Science
Grade 4 : Standard 9 -Matter
Conceptual Strand 9 The composition and structure of matter is known, and it behaves according to principles that are generally understood.
Guiding Question 9 How does the structure of matter influence its physical and chemical behavior?
Grade Level Expectations
GLE 0407.9.1 Collect data to illustrate that the physical properties of matter can be described with tools that measure weight, mass, length, and volume.
Density
GLE 0407.9.2 Explore different types of physical changes in matter.
Changing matter
physical changes
Quia: chemical or physical changes
Chemistry 4 kids
The Mixtures Lab
The Unmixables
States of Matter Flash Cards (Quizlet.com)
What is Matter? Pod Cast
What is Matter? Pod Cast Worksheet
Checks for Understanding
| 0407.9.1 Use appropriate tools to measure and compare the physical properties of various solids and liquids. |
| 0407.9.2 Compare the causes and effects of various physical changes in matter. |
The Mixtures Lab
Physical changes
Quia: chemical or physical changes
Chemistry 4 kids
State Performance Indicators
SPI 0407.9.1 Choose an appropriate tool for measuring a specific physical property of matter.
Using a Microscope
SPI 0407.9.2 Determine the mass, volume, and temperature of a substance or object using proper units of measurement.
Density
Characteristics of Materials
Changing State
SPI 0407.9.3 Interpret the causes and effects of a physical change in matter.
Changing matter
BBC: States of Matter
Chemistry 4 Kids
States of Matter
Webquest: Matter
What is matter?
Gases Around Us
Reversible and Irreversible Changes
Grade 4 : Standard 10 -Energy
Conceptual Strand 10 Various forms of energy are constantly being transformed into other types without any net loss of energy from the system.
The Energy Story covers all aspects of energy divided into 20 online chapters
Guiding Question 10 What basic energy related ideas are essential for understanding the dependency of the natural and man-made worlds on energy?
Grade Level Expectations
GLE 0407.10.1 Distinguish among heat, radiant, and chemical forms of energy.
Energy Quest
GLE 0407.10.2 Investigate how light travels and is influenced by different types of materials and surfaces.
Checks for Understanding
| 0407.10.1 Design an investigation to demonstrate how different forms of energy release heat or light. |
Brain Pop: forms of energy
Types of energy
Information on forms of energy
Kinetic vs. potential class activity
Guide to electricity
| 0407.10.2 Design an experiment to investigate how different surfaces determine if light is reflected, refracted, or absorbed |
| 0407.10.3 Gather and organize information about a variety of materials to categorize them as translucent, transparent, or opaque. |
State Performance Indicators
SPI 0407.10.1 Identify different forms of energy, such as heat, light, and chemical.
Brain Pop: forms of energy
Information on forms of energy
Renewable vs. non-renewable energy
Kinetic vs. potential class activity
Types of energy
SPI 0407.10.2 Determine which surfaces reflect, refract, or absorb light.
SPI 0407.10.3 Determine whether a material is transparent, translucent, or opaque.
Light
Grade 4 : Standard 11 -Motion
Conceptual Strand 11 Objects move in ways that can be observed, described, predicted, and measured.
Guiding Question 11 What causes objects to move differently under different circumstances?
Grade Level Expectations
GLE 0407.11.1 Recognize that the position of an object can be described relative to other objects or a background.
GLE 0407.11.2 Design a simple investigation to demonstrate how friction affects the movement of an object.
Friction
Forces in Action
Force, Gravity, Friction
GLE 0407.11.3 Investigate the relationship between the speed of an object and the distance traveled during a certain time period.
Checks for Understanding
| 0407.11.1 Identify the position of objects relative to fixed reference points. |
| 0407.11.2 Design an investigation to identify factors that affect the speed and distance traveled by an object in motion. |
Amusement Park Physics Includes a Design You Own Roller Coaster
| 0407.11.3 Complete a coordinate graph to describe the relative positions of objects. |
Forces in Action
| 0407.11.4 Plan and execute an investigation that demonstrates how friction affects the movement of an object. |
| 0407.11.5 Design and implement an investigation to determine that the speed of an object is equal to the distance traveled over time. |
Speed, distance, and time visual
State Performance Indicators
SPI 0407.11.1 Describe the position of an object relative to fixed reference points.
SPI 0407.11.2 Identify factors that influence the motion of an object.
Grade 4: Force and Motion
American Museum of Natural History (Where is our Place in Space?)
Gravity in Action
Friction game
BBC: Friction interactive
Let it Roll friction activity
SPI 0407.11.3 Determine the relationship between speed and distance traveled over time.
Grade 4 : Standard 12 -Forces in Nature
Conceptual Strand 12 Everything in the universe exerts a gravitational force on everything else; there is an interplay between magnetic fields and electrical currents.
Guiding Question 12 What are the scientific principles that explain gravity and electromagnetism?
Grade Level Expectations
GLE 0407.12.1 Explore the interactions between magnets
GLE 0407.12.2 Observe that electrically charged objects exert a pull on other materials.
GLE 0407.12.3 Explain how electricity in a simple circuit requires a complete loop through which current can pass.
Circuit Builder
Checks for Understanding
| 0407.12.1 Explore the interactions between an electrically charged object and other materials. |
| 0407.12.2 Design an experiment to investigate how a simple electromagnet affects common objects. |
Design and test an Electromagnet - Inquiry lab
| 0407.12.3 Describe how electricity passes through a simple circuit that includes a battery, wire, switch, and bulb. |
Simple Circuits Interactive site
How Circuits Work
The NASA SciFiles Circuits