Ms. Castro's Fourth Grade

components:

• McGraw Hill Science Books              
• Educational Websites
• Teacher Resources
• Hands-on Experiments
• Computer Software & Internet Websites
• Unitedstreaming.com
• Individual and Group Projects

Teaching Model:

            Fourth grade science is taught using a variety of teaching methods and student activities in order to best gain and retain important knowledge.  Students will learn through reading science texts, highlighting important information from text, cooperative/group and individual projects, traditional research methods, hands-on science experiments, interactive websites & computer software, videos and educational games & simulations.

Topics covered throughout fourth grade include:

SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS:

• Observing
• Classifying
• Measuring
• Communicating
• Inferring and Interpreting
• Controlling Variables
• Representing Data
• Experimenting

QUARTERS 1 & 2

 EARTH'S SCIENCE

            Water Cycle

            Water on the Earth

            Earth’s Surface

            Rocks and Soil

            Fossils

            Inside the Earth

QUARTER 3

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

            Properties of Matter

            Heat & Energy

QUARTER4

LIFE SCIENCES

            Organisms and Environment

            Living Things

            Life Cycles of Animals

            Diversity and Adaptations

            Body Structure of Animals

                 Organ Systems

                 Skeletal System

                 Muscular System

Throughout the Units: 

PERSONAL/SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES IN SCIENCE

            Scientific Inquiry

            Natural Resources

            Our Environment and Human Influences

Activities with each unit:

• Graphic Organizers
• Reading/highlighing important information
• Note taking – Outline
• Reading diagrams
• Various experiments
• Various worksheets
• Songs and poetry related to the topics
• CD-Roms – such as Science Court (The Water Cycle)
• On-line videos through unitedstreaming.com
• Quizzes (Multiple choice, Fill-ins, Matching, Short Answer, Essays
• Introduction to formal research - project