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4.1 Organisms Functioning in Their Environment

4.1.1 Construct an explanation from evidence that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
4.1.2 Develop and use a model of a system to describe how animals receive different types of information from their environment through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information.
- Body systems: perception and motion (4-L.7)
4.1.3 Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the stability and change in organisms and environments from long ago.
4.1.4 Engage in argument from evidence based on patterns in rock layers and fossils found in those layers to support an explanation that environments have changed over time.
- Interpret evidence from fossils in rock layers (4-T.5)

4.2 Energy Transfer

4.2.1 Construct an explanation to describe the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of that object.
- How are speed and energy related? (4-C.4)
4.2.2 Ask questions and make observations about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.
4.2.3 Plan and carry out an investigation to gather evidence from observations that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electrical currents.
4.2.4 Design a device that converts energy from one form to another.
- Energy transformation (4-E.2)

4.3 Wave Patterns

4.3.1 Develop and use a model to describe the regular patterns of waves.
- Compare amplitudes and wavelengths of waves (4-I.1)
4.3.2 Develop and use a model to describe how visible light waves reflected from objects enter the eye causing objects to be seen.
- How do we see objects? (4-H.1)
4.3.3 Design a solution to an information transfer problem using wave patterns.

4.4 Observable Patterns in the Sky

4.4.1 Construct an explanation that differences in the apparent brightness of the Sun compared to other stars is due to the relative distance (scale) of stars from Earth.
- Brightness of the Sun and other stars (4-X.4)
4.4.2 Analyze and interpret data of observable patterns to show that Earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the Sun. Emphasize patterns that provide evidence of Earth's rotation and orbits around the Sun.

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4.1 Organisms Functioning in Their Environment

4.1.1 Construct an explanation from evidence that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

4.1.2 Develop and use a model of a system to describe how animals receive different types of information from their environment through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information.

4.1.3 Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the stability and change in organisms and environments from long ago.

4.1.4 Engage in argument from evidence based on patterns in rock layers and fossils found in those layers to support an explanation that environments have changed over time.

4.2 Energy Transfer

4.2.1 Construct an explanation to describe the cause and effect relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of that object.

4.2.2 Ask questions and make observations about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.

4.2.3 Plan and carry out an investigation to gather evidence from observations that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electrical currents.

4.2.4 Design a device that converts energy from one form to another.

4.3 Wave Patterns

4.3.1 Develop and use a model to describe the regular patterns of waves.

4.3.2 Develop and use a model to describe how visible light waves reflected from objects enter the eye causing objects to be seen.

4.3.3 Design a solution to an information transfer problem using wave patterns.

4.4 Observable Patterns in the Sky

4.4.1 Construct an explanation that differences in the apparent brightness of the Sun compared to other stars is due to the relative distance (scale) of stars from Earth.

4.4.2 Analyze and interpret data of observable patterns to show that Earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the Sun. Emphasize patterns that provide evidence of Earth's rotation and orbits around the Sun.