Alabama Grade 4 science standards

SC23.4.3 Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence that energy is transferred by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Lessons: Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable (Which wrap keeps a drink coldest?, How do animals stay warm in the sea and cool in the desert?, Can you build a cool box that beats the heat?) · Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up (Can you light a bulb with one wire?, What lets electricity through?, Why do some string lights all go out at once?) · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm (Which mitten keeps a hand warmest?, How do animals stay warm in winter?, Can snow keep things warm?) · Steppe Science: Staying Warm on the Kazakh Steppe (How does a felt yurt keep a family warm at −30 °C?)

Practice: Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Steppe Science: Staying Warm on the Kazakh Steppe workbook

SC23.4.4 Design, construct, and test a device that changes energy from one form to another.

Lessons: Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up (Can you build a burglar alarm?)

Practice: Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up workbook · Power Up: Where Electricity Comes From workbook

SC23.4.7 Develop a model to demonstrate that light reflecting from objects and entering the eyes allow objects to be seen.

Lessons: Bouncing Light: Mirrors, Water and Colour (How can a mirror steer a beam of light?) · Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? (Why do you have two eyes?) (partly)

Practice: Bouncing Light: Mirrors, Water and Colour workbook · Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? workbook

SC23.4.8 Make a claim, using evidence, that the functions of both internal and external structures of plants and animals (including humans) support growth, survival, and behavior.

Lessons: Flowers, Fruit and Seeds: How Plants Make More Plants (What is a flower really for?, Is a tomato a fruit?, How can a seed travel without legs?) (partly) · How Your Body Works (Why does your heart beat faster when you run?, What happens to your lunch?, How does your arm bend?) · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable (How do animals stay warm in the sea and cool in the desert?) · Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? (How do animals sense what we can't?) · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm (How do animals stay warm in winter?)

Practice: Flowers, Fruit and Seeds: How Plants Make More Plants workbook · How Your Body Works workbook · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Groundhog Day Shadow Science

SC23.4.9 Carry out investigations to support a claim that different animals receive information through their senses, process that information, and respond in various ways.

Lessons: Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know?

Practice: Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? workbook

SC23.4.11 Construct explanations of Earth's changes over time through slow and rapid processes, citing evidence found in rock formations and fossils in rock layers.

Lessons: Restless Earth: Fossils, Soils, Volcanoes and Plates (How do fossils form, and what can they tell us?) (partly)

Practice: Restless Earth: Fossils, Soils, Volcanoes and Plates workbook

SC23.4.12 Plan and carry out investigations to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, and vegetation, investigating a single form of weathering or erosion at a time.

Lessons: Rocks and Erosion: How Land Changes Shape (Can water carve a canyon?, What protects a hillside from washing away?, How do rocks become sand?) · Living with Water: Salt, Rice and the Mekong (How do salt farmers turn the sea into salt?, How do rice terraces stop a mountain washing away?, How can a house stay dry when the Mekong floods?)

Practice: Rocks and Erosion: How Land Changes Shape workbook · Living with Water: Salt, Rice and the Mekong workbook

SC23.4.13 Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features on land and in the ocean.

Lessons: Restless Earth: Fossils, Soils, Volcanoes and Plates (Where do volcanoes and earthquakes happen?)

Practice: Restless Earth: Fossils, Soils, Volcanoes and Plates workbook

SC23.4.14 Gather information to describe how the use of energy derived from renewable and nonrenewable resources affects the environment.

Lessons: Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better (Is our classroom wasting electricity?) (partly) · Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact (Will our energy ever run out?)

Practice: Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better workbook · Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact workbook · Power Up: Where Electricity Comes From workbook

SC23.4.15 Design, test, and evaluate a solution that will protect humans from the effects of natural Earth processes.

Lessons: Restless Earth: Fossils, Soils, Volcanoes and Plates (What do moving plates do, and can a building survive?) · Rocks and Erosion: How Land Changes Shape (What protects a hillside from washing away?) · Living with Water: Salt, Rice and the Mekong (How do salt farmers turn the sea into salt?, How do rice terraces stop a mountain washing away?, How can a house stay dry when the Mekong floods?)

Practice: Restless Earth: Fossils, Soils, Volcanoes and Plates workbook · Rocks and Erosion: How Land Changes Shape workbook · Living with Water: Salt, Rice and the Mekong workbook