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Fourth Grade Science Core Curriculum

Domain Standard Cluster Txt of Objective Web Tool Instructions for use

Physical Science:

Forces and Motion

Physical Science: Matter: Properties and Change

Physical Science:

Energy Conservation

Earth Science:

Earth in the Universe

Earth Science:

Earth History

Life Science: Ecosystems

Life Science:

Molecular Biology

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4.P.2.1

4.P.2.2

4.P.2.3

4.P.3.1

4.P.3.2

4.E.1.1

4.E.1.2

4.E.2.1

4.E.2.2

4.E.2.3

4.L.1.1

4.L.12

4.L.1.3

4.L.1.4

4.L.2.1

4.L.2.2

Explain how various forces affect the motion of an object

Understand the composition and properties of matter before and after they undergo a change or interaction

Recognize that energy takes various forms that may be grouped based on their interaction with matter

Explain the causes of day and night and phases of the moon

Understand the use of fossils and changes in the surface of the earth as evidence of the history of Earth and its changing life forms

Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats

Understand food and the benefits of vitamins, minerals and exercise

Explain how magnets interact with all things made of iron and with other magnets to produce motion without touching them.

Explain how electrically charged objects push or pull on other electrically charged objects and produce motion.

Compare the physical properties of samples of matter: (strength, hardness, flexibility, ability to conduct heat, ability to conduct electricity, ability to be attracted by magnets, reactions to water and fire).

Explain how minerals are identified using tests for the physical properties of hardness, color, luster, cleavage, and streak.

Classify rocks as metamorphic, sedimentary or igneous based on their composition, how they are formed and the processes that create them.

Recognize the basic forms of energy (light, sound, heat, electrical, and magnetic) as the ability to cause motion or create change

Recognize that light travels in a straight line until it strikes an object or travels from one medium to another, and that light can be reflected refracted, and absorbed.

Explain the cause of day and night based on the rotation of Earth on its axis.

Explain the monthly changes in the appearance of the moon, based on the moon’s orbit around the Earth.

Compare fossils (including molds, casts, and preserved parts of plants and animals) to one another and to living organisms

Infer ideas about Earth’s early environments from fossils of plants and animals that lived long ago.

Give examples of how the surface of the earth changes due to slow processes such as erosion and weathering, and rapid processes such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes.

Give examples of changes in an organism’s environment that are beneficial to it and some that are harmful.

Explain how animals meet their needs by using behaviors in response to information received from the environment

Explain how humans can adapt their behavior to live in changing habitats (e.g., recycling wastes, establishing rain gardens, planting native species to prevent flooding and erosion).

Explain how differences among animals of the same population sometimes give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing in changing habitats.