Tennessee

PS Physical Sciences

• 4.PS3 Energy

  • 4.PS3.1 Use evidence to explain the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of an object.

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

  • 4.PS3.2 Carry out an investigation to show how faster speeds during a collision can cause a bigger change in the shape of the colliding objects.

  • 4.PS3.3 Describe how stored energy can be converted into another form for practical use in a system.

    • Energy transformation (4-I.1)

• 4.PS4 Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

  • 4.PS4.1 Use a model of a simple wave to describe amplitude, wavelength, and explain how waves can add or cancel each other as they cross.

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

  • 4.PS4.2 Construct an explanation for how the colors of available light sources and the bending of light waves determine what we see.

    • How do we see objects? (4-K.1)
    • How does light travel and interact with matter? (4-K.2)

  • 4.PS4.3 Investigate how lenses enhance human senses and digital devices use waves to receive and decode information over distances.

LS Life Sciences

• 4.LS2 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

  • 4.LS2.1 Develop and use models to illustrate the flow of matter through a food web/food chain beginning with sunlight and including producers, consumers, and decomposers.

    • How do plants make food? (4-O.3)
    • Identify roles in food chains (4-S.3)
    • How does matter move in food chains? (4-S.4)
    • Interpret food webs (4-S.5)

  • 4.LS2.2 Using information about the roles of organisms (producers, consumers, decomposers) in an ecosystem, evaluate how those roles are interconnected in a food web, and communicate how the organisms are continuously able to meet their needs in a stable food web.

    • Interpret food webs (4-S.5)

  • 4.LS2.3 Develop and use models to determine the effects of introducing a species to, or removing a species from, an ecosystem and how either one can damage the balance of an ecosystem.

    • Use food chains to predict changes in populations (5)

  • 4.LS2.4 Analyze and interpret data about changes in the environment to explain how some organisms may survive and reproduce, some may not survive, others move to new locations, yet others move into the transformed environment.

    • 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)

• 4.LS4 Biological Change: Unity and Diversity

  • 4.LS4.1 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about what a fossil is and ways a fossil can provide information about the past, such as (a) the nature of environments and (b) animals that existed long ago but no longer exist.

    • Introduction to fossils (4-V.1)
    • Identify and classify fossils (4-V.2)
    • Compare fossils to modern organisms (4-V.3)
    • Compare ancient and modern organisms: use observations to support a hypothesis (4-V.4)
    • Interpret evidence from fossils in rock layers (4-V.5)

ESS Earth and Space Sciences

• 4.ESS1 Earth's Place in the Universe

  • 4.ESS1.1 Generate and support a claim with evidence that over long periods of time, erosion and deposition have changed landscapes and created new landforms.

    • Changes to Earth's surface: erosion (4-U.1)
    • How do sedimentary rocks form? (4-U.4)
    • How do rock layers form? (4-U.6)

  • 4.ESS1.2 Use evidence from the presence and location of fossils to determine the order in which rock strata were formed.

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

• 4.ESS2 Earth's Systems

  • 4.ESS2.1 Collect and analyze data from observations to provide evidence that rocks, soils, and sediments are broken into smaller pieces through mechanical weathering and are transported by water, ice, wind, gravity, and vegetation.

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

  • 4.ESS2.2 Explain how data from maps and other reliable sources can be used to determine patterns for the locations of mountain ranges, deep ocean trenches, volcanoes, and earthquakes.

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

  • 4.ESS2.3 Provide examples to support the claim that organisms affect the physical characteristics of their regions.

• 4.ESS3 Earth and Human Activity

  • 4.ESS3.1 Obtain and combine information to describe that energy, fuels, and materials are derived from natural resources and that some resources are renewable and some are not.

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

  • 4.ESS3.2 Engage in an argument, using evidence from research, that human activity can affect the land and ocean in positive and/or negative ways.

    • Science literacy: how can a community protect sea turtles? (4-T.1)

ETS Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science

• 4.ETS1 Engineering Design

  • 4.ETS1.1 Categorize the effectiveness of design solutions by testing and comparing them to specified criteria and constraints.

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

• 4.ETS2 Links Among Engineering, Technology, Science, and Society

  • 4.ETS2.1 Explain how existing technologies have been designed or improved to increase their benefits, to decrease known risks, and to meet societal demands.