🔬 Grade 4 Science

Units

1. Unit 1

   💡Light

   Natural and artificial light, things that make light and things that reflect it, shadows, transparent, translucent and opaque materials, mirrors, refraction, and how light technology affects people and wildlife.

   Learning outcome: SCI.4.E.2, SCI.4.E.4, SCI.4.E.5 · light, how it travels, and how we see objects

2. Unit 2

   🔊Sound

   Vibrations and sound waves, pitch and volume, how sound travels through different materials but not through empty space, echoes and absorbing sound, how we hear, and how noise and sound devices affect people and animals.

   Learning outcome: SCI.4.E.1, SCI.4.E.3 · sound as energy made by vibrations

3. Unit 3

   🪱Soil Detectives

   Practises the nature and types of soil (sandy, clay and loam), what makes soil fertile, the layers of soil, and how people look after it.

   Learning outcome: SCI.4.E.9, SCI.4.E.10 · the nature and types of soil, and the properties of fertile soil

4. Unit 4

   🪨Rocks & Minerals

   Practises the three types of rock and how each forms, minerals and fossils, and how weathering and erosion wear rock down.

   Learning outcome: SCI.4.E.11, SCI.4.E.12 · types of rock and how they form, weathering and erosion of rock

5. Unit 5

   🌬️Energy We Use

   Practises renewable and non-renewable sources of energy, including the hydroelectric power Manitoba depends on, and ways families can save energy.

   Learning outcome: SCI.4.E.8 · the differences between renewable and non-renewable energy sources

6. Unit 6

   🕸️Food Chains & Webs

   Producers, consumers and decomposers, herbivores, carnivores and omnivores, how energy moves along a food chain, and why a food web is a more complete picture.

   Learning outcome: SCI.4.E.14 · the flow of energy and cycling of matter among living things