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SC.4.2 Waves: Waves and Information

• SC.4.2.1 Gather, analyze, and communicate evidence of waves and the information they transfer.

  • SC.4.2.1.A Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.

    • Compare amplitudes and wavelengths of waves (4-G.5)

  • SC.4.2.1.B Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.

SC.4.4 Energy: Conservation and Transfer

• SC.4.4.2 Gather, analyze and communicate evidence of energy conservation and transfer.

  • SC.4.4.2.A Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

    • How are speed and energy related? (4-G.4)

  • SC.4.4.2.B Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electrical currents.

    • Predict heat flow (4-D.1)
    • Predict temperature changes (4-D.2)
    • Introduction to energy (4-I.)
    • Electric circuits (4-J.2)

  • SC.4.4.2.C Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.

  • SC.4.4.2.D Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

    • Energy transformation (4-I.1)

  • SC.4.4.2.E Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

  • SC.4.4.2.F Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and that their uses affect the environment.

    • Evaluate natural energy sources (4-T.2)

SC.4.6 Structure, Function, and Information Processing

• SC.4.6.3 Gather and analyze data to communicate an understanding of structure, function and information processing of living things.

  • SC.4.6.3.A Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eyes allows objects to be seen.

    • How do we see objects? (4-K.1)

  • SC.4.6.3.B Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

    • Identify mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians (4-L.2)
    • Identify vertebrates and invertebrates (4-L.3)
    • Use evidence to classify mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians (4-L.4)
    • Use evidence to classify animals (4-L.5)
    • Compare animal life cycles (4-N.2)
    • Human organs and their functions (4-N.3)
    • Body systems: circulation and respiration (4-N.4)
    • Body systems: digestion (4-N.5)
    • Body systems: removing waste (4-N.6)
    • Body systems: perception and motion (4-N.7)
    • Classify fruits and vegetables as plant parts (4-O.1)
    • Identify plant parts and their functions (4-O.2)
    • Identify flower parts and their functions (4-O.4)
    • Describe and construct flowering plant life cycles (4-O.5)
    • Describe and construct conifer life cycles (4-O.6)
    • Introduction to adaptations (4-P.1)
    • Animal adaptations: beaks, mouths, and necks (4-P.2)
    • Animal adaptations: feet and limbs (4-P.3)
    • Animal adaptations: skins and body coverings (4-P.4)

  • SC.4.6.3.C 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.

    • Body systems: perception and motion (4-N.7)

SC.4.13 Earth's Systems: Processes That Shape the Earth

• SC.4.13.4 Gather and analyze data to communicate an understanding of Earth's systems and processes that shape the Earth.

  • SC.4.13.4.A Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.

    • Interpret evidence from fossils in rock layers (4-V.5)

  • SC.4.13.4.B Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.

    • Changes to Earth's surface: erosion (4-U.1)

  • SC.4.13.4.C Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth's features.

    • Read a topographic map (4-X.4)
    • Select parts of a topographic map (4-X.5)

  • SC.4.13.4.D Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.

    • Evaluate multiple design solutions to prevent flooding (4-AA.1)
    • Identify the best design solution to prevent hurricane damage (4-AA.2)