Florida Grade 4 science standards

SC.4.E.6.1 Identify the three categories of rocks: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic (partial: students sort and identify limestone only).

Lessons: Rocks and Erosion: How Land Changes Shape

Practice: Kitchen Chemistry for Families workbook · Clean Water Challenge: Mixtures, Dissolving and Separating workbook · Solids, Liquids and Gases workbook · Grade 4 Rocks and Minerals · Stone, Bamboo and Storms: Building in Vietnam workbook

SC.4.E.6.2 Identify the physical properties of common earth-forming minerals, including hardness, colour, lustre, cleavage, and streak colour. The scratch and streak tests (rocks rather than pure minerals).

Lessons: Rocks and Erosion: How Land Changes Shape

Practice: Kitchen Chemistry for Families workbook · Clean Water Challenge: Mixtures, Dissolving and Separating workbook · Solids, Liquids and Gases workbook · Grade 4 Rocks and Minerals · Stone, Bamboo and Storms: Building in Vietnam workbook

SC.4.E.6.3 Recognize that humans need resources found on Earth and that these are either renewable or nonrenewable (a lower-grade match: where our electricity comes from).

Lessons: Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better · Power Up: Where Electricity Comes From (Where does our classroom's electricity come from?, Can the wind power our school?, Why don't we use solar power everywhere?)

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

SC.4.E.6.4 Describe the basic differences between physical weathering and erosion. Sugar-cube tumbling, ice wedging and the stream table.

Lessons: Rocks and Erosion: How Land Changes Shape

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

SC.4.L.17.3 Trace the flow of energy from the Sun as it is transferred along the food chain through the producers to the consumers (an adjacent-grade match).

Lessons: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom?

Practice: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? workbook

SC.4.L.17.4 Recognize ways plants and animals, including humans, can impact the environment (an adjacent-grade match: waste, water and energy audits).

Lessons: Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better

Practice: Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better workbook · Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact workbook

SC.4.N.1.4 Attempt reasonable answers to scientific questions and cite evidence in support. Students judge how true the arm-span claim is.

Lessons: Evidence Lab (How do you know a fact is true?, Why do scientists repeat their tests?)

Practice: Evidence Lab workbook · Build It, Launch It workbook · How Your Body Works workbook · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Think Like a Scientist: The Scientific Method workbook · Test the Claim: Science Facts, Myths and AI Answers workbook · Steppe Science: Staying Warm on the Kazakh Steppe workbook · Monsoon Science: Rain, Sun and the Nón Lá workbook

SC.4.N.1.7 Recognize and explain that scientists base their explanations on evidence.

Lessons: Evidence Lab (How do you know a fact is true?, Why do scientists repeat their tests?)

Practice: Evidence Lab workbook · Build It, Launch It workbook · How Your Body Works workbook · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Think Like a Scientist: The Scientific Method workbook · Test the Claim: Science Facts, Myths and AI Answers workbook · Steppe Science: Staying Warm on the Kazakh Steppe workbook · Monsoon Science: Rain, Sun and the Nón Lá workbook

SC.4.P.8.4 Investigate and describe that magnets can attract magnetic materials and attract and repel other magnets (an adjacent-grade match).

Lessons: Pushes, Pulls and Magnets (Why does a ball stop rolling?, Can a magnet work through a table?, How far will a paper clip jump?)

Practice: Pushes, Pulls and Magnets workbook

SC.4.P.9.1 Identify some familiar changes in materials that result in other materials with different characteristics. Baking soda and vinegar make a gas.

Lessons: Kitchen Chemistry for Families

Practice: Kitchen Chemistry for Families workbook

SC.4.P.10.3 Investigate and explain that sound is produced by vibrating objects and that pitch depends on how fast or slow the object vibrates (an adjacent-grade match: high and low notes).

Lessons: Sound: Can You See a Sound? (Can you see a sound?, Can a string carry your voice?, How do you make a high note or a low note?)

Practice: Sound: Can You See a Sound? workbook · Grade 4 Sound: Vibrations, Pitch and Echoes

SC.4.P.10.4 Describe how moving water and air are sources of energy and can be used to move things (a lower-grade match: the paper wind machine).

Lessons: Power Up: Where Electricity Comes From (Where does our classroom's electricity come from?, Can the wind power our school?, Why don't we use solar power everywhere?)

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

SC.4.P.11.1 Recognize that heat flows from a hot object to a cold object and that heat flow may cause materials to change temperature.

Lessons: Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm

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

SC.4.P.11.2 Identify common materials that conduct heat well or poorly. The mitten test compares wool, cotton and foil.

Lessons: Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm

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

SC.4.P.12.2 Investigate and describe that the speed of an object is determined by the distance it travels in a unit of time (a lower-grade match: toy car speed).

Lessons: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop

Practice: Forces and Motion: Crash, Push and Stop workbook