Manitoba Grade 4 science curriculum

4-1-06 Investigate how technological developments often mirror physical adaptations (owl-ear cone and animal-inspired sensors).

Lessons: Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know?

Practice: Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? workbook · Flowers, Fruit and Seeds: How Plants Make More Plants workbook · How Your Body Works workbook · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Groundhog Day Shadow Science · Build It, Launch It workbook · Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up workbook · Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better workbook · Monsoon Science: Rain, Sun and the Nón Lá workbook

4-1-07 Investigate and describe local habitats and their associated populations of plants and animals (schoolyard count).

Lessons: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom?

Practice: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? workbook · Our Living Planet workbook

4-1-11 Construct food chains and food webs, and classify organisms according to their roles.

Lessons: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom?

Practice: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? workbook · Our Living Planet workbook

4-1-13 Predict how the removal of a plant or animal population may affect the rest of the community (wolves disappear).

Lessons: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom?

Practice: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? workbook · Our Living Planet workbook

4-2-04 Demonstrate that white light can be separated into colours (rainbow lesson).

Lessons: Earth and Sky at Home (Where do rainbows come from?, How do crystals grow?, How does a cloud form?)

Practice: Grade 4 Light and Colour

4-2-10 Classify materials as transparent, translucent or opaque (a Grade 4 outcome).

Lessons: Light and Shadows (Why does my shadow follow me?, Why is my shadow long in the morning?, What can light go through?)

Practice: Light and Shadows workbook · Earth and Sky at Home workbook · Bouncing Light: Mirrors, Water and Colour workbook · Grade 4 Light and Colour

4-3-05 Recognize that sounds are caused by vibrations (a Grade 4 outcome taught earlier).

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

4-3-13 Investigate how vibrations travel differently through solids, liquids and gases (string telephone; partial).

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

4-4-03 Test to determine characteristics of rocks and properties of minerals, and classify accordingly.

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

4-4-12 Investigate and describe ways in which soil erosion is controlled or minimized (cover and roots on model hillsides).

Lessons: Rocks and Erosion: How Land Changes Shape

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

4-4-14 Describe effects of wind, water and ice on the landscape.

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