Grade 4 Science Alabama standards Standards

Cause and Effect

Natural Hazard Solutions

Cause and Effect

Natural Resources

Earth and Human Activity

Patterns

Physical Features

Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

Changes Over Time

Stability and Change

Changes Over Time

Systems and System Models

Water

Earth’s Systems

Systems and System Models

Information Processing

Structure and Function

Internal and External Structures

From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

Cause and Effect

Wave Properties

Patterns

Information Transfer

Patterns

Wave Properties

Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

Energy and Matter

Transference of Energy

Patterns

Transference of Energy

Cause and Effect

Speed and Energy

Energy

Design Thinking

Human/Computer Partnerships

Innovative Designer

Modeling and Simulation

Systems

Data

Computing Analyst

Collaborative Research

Digital Tools

Communication

Global Collaborator

Impact of Computing

Digital Identity

Legal and Ethical Behavior

Safety, Privacy, and Security

Citizen of a Digital Culture

Programming and Development

Algorithms

Abstraction

Computational Thinker

Earth and Human Activity

Earth’s Systems

From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information

Energy

Use evidence to explain the relationship between the speed of an object and its energy.

Construct a basic system of numbers, letters, or symbols to represent information as a cipher. Examples: Combine data from multiple sources, sorting multi-level.

Develop and use a model to describe how water moves through Earth’s systems by the processes of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.

Identify the different forms of web advertising and why websites, digital resources, and artifacts may include advertisements and collect personal information. Examples: Search ads, pay-per-click ads, banner ads, targeted ads, in-game ads, email ads.

Construct explanations of Earth's changes over time through slow and rapid processes, citing evidence found in rock formations and fossils in rock layers.

Discuss the digital divide as unequal access to technology based on differences such as income, education, age, or geographic location and locate resources in the community that can give people access to technology.

Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, and vegetation, investigating a single form of weathering or erosion at a time.

Use basic features of digital tools to communicate key ideas and details in a way that informs and/or persuades.

Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features on land and in the ocean.

Synthesize complex information from multiple sources in different ways to make it more useful and/or relevant.

Gather information to describe how the use of energy derived from renewable and nonrenewable resources affects the environment.

Type 20 words per minute with 95% accuracy using appropriate keyboarding techniques.

Design, test, and evaluate a solution that will protect humans from the effects of natural Earth processes.

Conduct complex keyword searches to produce valid, appropriate results and evaluate results for accuracy, relevance, and appropriateness. Examples: Search techniques, check for credibility and validity.

Gather and organize data to answer a question using a variety of computing and data visualization methods. Examples: Sorting, totaling, averaging, charts, and graphs.

Demonstrate an appropriate level of proficiency in performing tasks using a range of digital devices. Examples: Collect and record data, print, use send command, connect to Internet, or search; use probes, sensors, printers, robots, or computers.

Create a simple digital model of a system, individually and collaboratively, and explain what the model shows and does not show. Examples: Create a model of the water cycle and indicate that it shows how precipitation forms but does not indicate how pesticides get into rivers.

Use data from a simulation to answer a question collaboratively.

Plan and carry out investigations to answer questions regarding changes in energy when objects collide, and predict reasonable outcomes based on observed patterns.

Formulate a list of sub-problems to consider while addressing a larger problem. Examples: Problem - a multi-step math problem; sub-problem - steps to solve. Problem - light bulb does not light; sub-problem - steps to resolve why.

Explain how hardware and applications can enable everyone, including people with disabilities, to do things they could not do otherwise. Examples: Global Positioning System [GPS] to navigate, text-to-speech feature to read aloud from a digital resource, translate a digital resource to a different language.

Develop, test, and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process to solve a simple problem.

Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that energy is transferred by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Show that different solutions exist for the same problem or sub-problem.

Construct an explanation using evidence to support the claim that heat can be produced in many ways.

Construct an explanation with evidence supporting the claim that different objects can absorb, reflect, and/or conduct energy.

Design, construct, and test a device that changes energy from one form to another.

Detect and debug logical errors in various basic algorithms. Example: Trace the path of a set of directions to determine success or failure.

Develop and use models to describe amplitude and wavelength patterns and how waves can cause objects to move.

Use flowcharts to create a plan or algorithm.

Construct an explanation of how light, sound, and digitized information are transferred by waves.

Define a simple pseudocode.

Develop a model to demonstrate that light reflecting from objects and entering the eyes allow objects to be seen.

Create a working program in a block-based visual programming environment using arithmetic operators, conditionals, and repetition in programs, in collaboration with others.

Make a claim, using evidence, that the functions of both internal and external structures of plants and animals (including humans) support growth, survival, and behavior.

Demonstrate the proper use and operation of security technologies. Examples: Passwords, virus protection software, spam filters, pop-up blockers.

Carry out investigations to support a claim that different animals receive information through their senses, process that information, and respond in various ways.

Identify laws and tools which help ensure that users of varying abilities can access electronic and information technology. Examples: ADA Laws

Recognize that objects move at different speeds.

Identify how water moves through the process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.

Identify patterns in rock formations and rock layers relating to the Earth's changes over time.

Identify the effects of weathering by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.

Use a map key to identify land and water features on a map.

Identify common energy sources as renewable or nonrenewable.

Identify options for human safety in a variety of weather situations and natural Earth processes.

Identify the effect of an opposing force on a moving object.

Recognize different sources of heat.

Identify objects that absorb or reflect energy.

Identify common sources of energy used every day (e.g., electricity, gas, sun).

Identify models that show ways in which patterns are used to transfer information (using drums to send coded information through sound waves, using Morse code to send a message).

Identify a model that shows the path of light reflected from the surface of an object to be seen by the eye.

Identify basic parts of plants and animals and how those parts support growth and survival.

Identify the sense organs and the information they receive (eyes/sight, tongue/taste, ears/hearing, skin/touch, nose/smell).

Crosscutting Concepts (CCCs)

Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs)

Patterns: Similarities and differences in patterns can be used to sort, classify, communicate, and analyze simple rates of change for natural phenomena and designed products. Patterns of change can be used to make predictions. Patterns can be used as evidence to support an explanation

Cause and Effect: Mechanism and Prediction: Cause and effect relationships are routinely identified, tested, and used to explain change. Events that occur together with regularity might or might not be a cause and effect relationship.

Scale, Proportion, and Quantity: Natural objects and/or observable phenomena exist from the very small to the immensely large or from very short to very long time periods. Standard units are used to measure and describe physical quantities such as weight, time, temperature, and volume.

Systems and System Models: A system is a group of related parts that make up a whole and can carry out functions its individual parts cannot. A system can be described in terms of its components and their interactions.

Energy and Matter: Flows, Cycles, and Conservation: Matter is made of particles. Matter flows and cycles can be tracked in terms of the weight of the substances before and after a process occurs. The total weight of the substances does not change. This is what is meant by conservation of matter. Matter is transported into, out of, and within systems. Energy can be transferred in various ways; energy can be transferred between objects.

Structure and Function: Different materials have different substructures, which can sometimes be observed. Substructures have shapes and parts that serve functions.

Stability and Change: Change is measured in terms of differences over time and may occur at different rates. Some systems appear stable, but over long periods of time will eventually change.

Asking Questions and Defining Problems: Specifying qualitative relationships.

Developing and Using Models: Building and revising simple models; using models to represent events and design solutions

Planning and Carrying Out Investigations: Designing and conducting investigations with controlled variables; providing evidence to support explanations or design solutions

Analyzing and Interpreting Data: Introducing quantitative approaches to collecting data and conducting multiple trials of qualitative observations, using digital tools whenever possible.

Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking: Extending quantitative measurements to a variety of physical properties; using computation and mathematics to analyze data and compare alternative design solutions.

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions: Using evidence in constructing explanations that specify variables, describing and predicting phenomena, and designing multiple solutions to design problems.

Engaging in Argument from Evidence: Critiquing the scientific explanations or solutions proposed by peers, citing relevant evidence about the natural and designed world(s).

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information: Evaluating the merit and accuracy of ideas and methods.