Utah Grade 4 science standards

4.1.1 Construct an explanation from evidence that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and 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

4.1.2 Develop and use a model of a system to describe how animals receive different types of information from their environment through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information.

Lessons: Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know?

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

4.1.4 Engage in argument based on patterns in rock layers and fossils found in those layers to support an explanation that environments have changed 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

4.4.1 Construct an explanation that differences in the apparent brightness of the Sun compared to other stars is due to the relative distance (scale) of stars from Earth.

Lessons: Stars and the Night Sky (Why do stars come out at night?) · Sun, Earth and Moon (How far away is the Sun, really?)

Practice: Stars and the Night Sky workbook · Sun, Earth and Moon workbook

4.2.3 Plan and carry out an investigation to gather evidence from observations that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electrical 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

4.2.4 Design a device that converts energy from one form to another. Define the problem, identify criteria and constraints, develop possible solutions using models, analyze data from testing solutions, and propose modifications for optimizing a solution.

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

4.3.2 Develop and use a model to describe how visible light waves reflected from objects enter the eye causing 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