Utah

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.

  • 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)

• 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-N.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.

  • 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)

• 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-V.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-G.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.

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

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

  • Energy transformation (4-I.1)

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-G.5)

• 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-K.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.

• 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.