Ontario Grade 4 science curriculum

B2.1 Describe habitats as areas that provide organisms, including plants and animals, with the necessities of life, and identify ways in which a local habitat provides these necessities. (sealed jar as a habitat).

Lessons: Our Living Planet (Can a jar keep itself alive?, Where does rain come from?)

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

B2.3 Describe the relationship of organisms in a food chain, and classify organisms as producers, consumers, or decomposers. (a Grade 4 expectation revisited).

Lessons: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom?

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

B2.4 Demonstrate an understanding of a food web as the interconnection of multiple food chains in a natural community.

Lessons: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom?

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

B2.6 Describe structural adaptations of a variety of plants and animals and how these adaptations allow the organisms to survive in specific habitats. (animal senses and structures; partial).

Lessons: Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm

Practice: Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm 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 · Groundhog Day Shadow Science

C2.3 Describe properties of light, including that light travels in a straight path and that light can be absorbed, reflected, and refracted. (shadows form because light travels in straight lines; an early start on Grade 4).

Lessons: Earth and Sky at Home (Where do rainbows come from?, How do crystals grow?, How does a cloud form?) · Light and Shadows (Why does my shadow follow me?, Why is my shadow long in the morning?, What can light go through?)

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

C2.4 Describe properties of sound, including that sound travels through a medium as a wave and that sound can be absorbed or reflected and modified. (string telephone; partial, an early start on Grade 4).

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

C2.5 Explain how vibrations cause sound waves. (an early start on Grade 4).

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

C2.6 Describe how different objects and materials interact with light and sound energy. (what light passes through; an early start on Grade 4).

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

C2.8 Identify sensory organs and devices that make use of the properties of light and sound. (sensory organs and devices; partial).

Lessons: Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know?

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

E2.3 Classify different rocks and minerals according to their composition and physical properties, using various tests and criteria.

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

Outcome Matter and Energy, Light and Sound: properties of light, including how it travels and how it bends.

Lessons: Earth and Sky at Home (Where do rainbows come from?)

Outcome Life Systems, Habitats and Communities: how living things depend on one another and on the non-living parts of their habitat.

Lessons: Our Living Planet (Can a jar keep itself alive?) (partly)

Outcome Strand E, Earth and Space Systems: Rocks, Minerals, and Geological Processes: properties of rocks and minerals, and how weathering and erosion change the land.

Lessons: Rocks and Erosion: How Land Changes Shape

A1.2 Use a scientific experimentation process to conduct investigations, following appropriate health and safety procedures.

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