Elementary School - Grade 4

Science

SCIENCE (Current Curriculum)

• Geology/Rocks

• Force & Motion
• Simple Machines

• Classifying Organisms

UPDATED SCIENCE PROGRAM (For Fall of 2013)

KNOWATOM: Fourth Grade Science System
The Know Atom Fourth Grade Science system guides students toward mastery of the Scientific Method and Engineering Design Process. Students receive laboratory notebooks to record their scientific reasoning from question to conclusion. The 14-unit curriculum includes experiment-based labs in each unit such as analyzing soil and measuring differences in electrical current. The curriculum covers all of the elementary-level standards though topics like fossils, the frog life cycle, sound waves and simple machines. Teachers receive original student readers to reinforce the units’ topics and quizzes to assess student understanding.

Unit Topics

• Unit 1: Becoming a Scientist
• Unit 2: Measuring Matter
• Unit 3: Sedimentary Rock
• Unit 4: Digging Into Soil
• Unit 5: Local Climates
• Unit 6: Plant and Animal Life Cycles
• Unit 7: Heredity
• Unit 8: Adapting to Change
• Unit 9: Energy Transfers
• Unit 10: Types of Electricity
• Unit 11: Magnetic Fields
• Unit 12: Sound Waves
• Unit 13: Light Waves
• Unit 14: Simple Machines