The NGSS in Oregon

ESS Earth & Space Science

• 4.ESS1 Earth's Place in the Universe

  • 4.ESS1.1 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-T.5)

• 4.ESS2 Earth's Systems

  • 4.ESS2.1 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-S.1)

  • 4.ESS2.2 Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth's features.

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

• 4.ESS3 Earth and Human Activity

  • 4.ESS3.1 Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.

    • Evaluate natural energy sources (4-R.1)

  • 4.ESS3.2 Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.

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

ETS Engineering, Technology, and the Application of Science

• 4.ETS1 Engineering Design

  • 4.ETS1.1 Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

    • Identify the best design solution to prevent hurricane damage (4-X.2)

  • 4.ETS1.2 Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

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

  • 4.ETS1.3 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.

LS Life Science

• 4.LS1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

  • 4.LS1.1 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-J.2)
    • Identify vertebrates and invertebrates (4-J.3)
    • Use evidence to classify mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians (4-J.4)
    • Use evidence to classify animals (4-J.5)
    • Read and construct animal life cycle diagrams (4-L.1)
    • Compare animal life cycles (4-L.2)
    • Human organs and their functions (4-L.3)
    • Body systems: circulation and respiration (4-L.4)
    • Body systems: digestion (4-L.5)
    • Body systems: removing waste (4-L.6)
    • Body systems: perception and motion (4-L.7)
    • Classify fruits and vegetables as plant parts (4-M.1)
    • Identify plant parts and their functions (4-M.2)
    • Identify flower parts and their functions (4-M.4)
    • Describe and construct flowering plant life cycles (4-M.5)
    • Describe and construct conifer life cycles (4-M.6)
    • Introduction to adaptations (4-N.1)
    • Animal adaptations: beaks, mouths, and necks (4-N.2)
    • Animal adaptations: feet and limbs (4-N.3)
    • Animal adaptations: skins and body coverings (4-N.4)

  • 4.LS1.2 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 in different ways.

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

PS Physical Science

• 4.PS3 Energy

  • 4.PS3.1 Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

  • 4.PS3.2 Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

    • Predict heat flow (4-D.1)
    • Predict temperature changes (4-D.2)

  • 4.PS3.3 Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.

  • 4.PS3.4 Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

    • Energy transformation (4-I.1)

• 4.PS4 Wavers and their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

  • 4.PS4.1 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.4)

  • 4.PS4.2 Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen.

  • 4.PS4.3 Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.