Missouri Grade 4 science standards

4.ESS1.C.1 Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.

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

4.ESS2.B.1 Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.

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

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

4.ESS3.A.1 Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.

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

4.ETS1B.1 Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.

Lessons: Build It, Launch It (Can you drop an egg without breaking it?, What makes a paper plane fly farthest?) · Monsoon Science: Rain, Sun and the Nón Lá (How does a nón lá keep a rice farmer dry?)

Practice: Build It, Launch It workbook · Monsoon Science: Rain, Sun and the Nón Lá workbook

4.LS1.A.1 Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and plant reproduction.

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

4.LS1.D.1 Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.

Lessons: Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know?

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

4.PS2.A.2 Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

Lessons: Build It, Launch It (How does a rocket push itself into space?) (partly) · Forces at Work: Gravity, Resistance, Levers and Pulleys (Do heavy things really fall faster?, How can a small push lift a big load?) (partly)

Practice: Build It, Launch It workbook · Forces at Work: Gravity, Resistance, Levers and Pulleys workbook · Pushes, Pulls and Magnets workbook

4.PS3.B.2 Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts 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