Grade 4 Science
5 units matched to the Nova Scotia Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Life Science: Habitat. Learners will investigate a variety of local natural habitats.
- Life Science: Habitat. Learners will analyse interconnectiveness of and within local habitats, inclusive of a Mi’kmaw perspective.
- Physical Science: Light. Learners will investigate properties of light.
- Physical Science: Light. Learners will investigate how light is used.
- Physical Science: Sound. Learners will investigate sound in the environment.
- Physical Science: Sound. Learners will test how properties of sound change.
- Earth and Space Science: Rocks and Minerals. Learners will analyse rocks, minerals, and fossils in the local environment.
- Earth and Space Science: Rocks and Minerals. Learners will investigate how the Earth’s surface changes over time.
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.
Learning outcome: Life Science: Habitat · 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.
Learning outcome: Life Science: Habitat · food chains and webs in a habitat
Unit 3
Habitats Working Together
Practises how plants, animals and non-living things in local habitats such as forests, salt marshes, ponds and dunes depend on each other, including food chains and decomposers. It follows the Grade 4 Nova Scotia science outcome on habitats and touches on the Mi’kmaw idea of Netukulimk.
Learning outcome: Life Science: Habitat · living and non-living parts of Nova Scotia habitats and how they depend on each other
Unit 4
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: Physical Science: Light · properties of light and how light is used
Unit 5
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: Physical Science: Sound · how sound is made, travels and changes
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