Virginia Grade 4 science standards
The Grade 4 science outcomes we teach, in the standards's own words, with the lessons and practice pages for each. Pick an outcome code for the full list of lessons and printables.
Virginia Science Standards of Learning (2018). Every lesson comes with a printable teacher guide and student sheet.
Scientific and Engineering Practices
4.1 Scientific and engineering practices: identify variables, use evidence (measurements, observations, patterns) to construct or support explanations, and analyze data in bar and line graphs.
Lessons: Evidence Lab (How do you know a fact is true?, Why do scientists repeat their tests?) · Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? · Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up
Practice: Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up workbook · Living with Water: Salt, Rice and the Mekong workbook
Living Systems and Processes
4.2 The survival of plants and animals depends on photosynthesis (an adjacent-grade match: the leaf-disk lesson).
Lessons: Our Living Planet (Can a jar keep itself alive?, Where does rain come from?) · Food Webs: Who Eats Whom?
Practice: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? workbook
4.3 Food webs show the flow of energy within an ecosystem; organisms interact with one another and with nonliving components (an adjacent-grade match).
Lessons: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom?
Practice: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? workbook · Our Living Planet workbook
Earth and Space Systems
4.4 Weather measurements create a record that can be used to make weather predictions; long-term seasonal trends determine the climate of a region (an adjacent-grade match; frost dates).
Lessons: Weather Detectives (Why does a chinook feel like spring in January?, Is it hotter by the slide?, Why do farmers care about the last frost?) · Climate Clues (Is this winter colder than when your grandparents were kids?, What can a tree ring tell us?, What's the difference between weather and climate?)
Practice: Weather Detectives workbook · Monsoon Science: Rain, Sun and the Nón Lá workbook
Earth Resources
4.8 Virginia has important natural resources, including minerals, rocks, and ores (a partial match: rock identification tests).
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
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