Grade 4 Science
4 units matched to the New Brunswick Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Grade focus: Properties and Uses of Earth Materials.
- Scientific Literacy: Investigation. Plan investigations to solve problems relating to the natural world: the Earth’s crust, changes in the Earth’s surface, rocks, minerals, soils, and uses of Earth’s resources.
- Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking. Analyze data to construct explanations and conclusions based on evidence from scientific inquiry.
- Scientific Literacy: Communication. Communicate procedure, result, and conclusion of scientific inquiry using a variety of media.
- Learning & Living Sustainably: Responsible and Sustainable Application. Apply scientific knowledge and an understanding of sustainable practices responsibly with respect to the natural world.
Units
Unit 1
Habitats & Communities
Habitats as places that meet the needs of living things, communities of interacting species, why habitats have limits, how species depend on each other, and how human actions can help or harm.
Skill descriptor: Learning & Living Sustainably: Responsible and Sustainable Application · local habitats and the living things in them
Unit 2
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.
Skill descriptor: Learning & Living Sustainably: Responsible and Sustainable Application · food chains and webs in a habitat
Unit 3
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.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · properties of light and how light is used
Unit 4
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.
Skill descriptor: Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking · how sound is made, travels and changes
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