Correlation to Louisiana Comprehensive Curriculum4th Grade Science |
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Unit 1: Measuring and Comparing
In this unit, various investigations require accurate measurements using a variety of tools. Taking measurements and making comparisons are two skills that are developed throughout the science units and practiced across the curriculum.
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| Let’s Graph It! |
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| Solid, Liquid, Gas: What Is Matter? |
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| Let’s Have a Bake Sale: Calculating Profit and Unit Cost |
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| Let’s Visit Canada: The Metric System |
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| Everyday Physical Science Experiments at the Playground |
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| Heads or Tails? Exploring Probability Through Games |
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Unit 2: Light, Heat, and Sound
This unit provides opportunities to investigate the properties of light, heat, and sound through a series of hands-on activities.
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| Inside the Sun |
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| Extreme Temperatures: Learning About Positive and Negative Numbers |
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| Everyday Physical Science Experiments with Liquids |
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Unit 3: Electricity
This unit demonstrates that circuits of various types can be used to transmit electricity. Students explore the source of energy for light, heat, and insulators and conductors of heat.
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| How Do Airplanes Fly? |
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| Everyday Physical Science Experiments with Magnetism |
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| It’s Electric! |
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Unit 4: Living Organisms
This unit will focus on growing plants from seeds, cuttings, or other plant parts and photosynthesis. Careful records of plant growth, especially measurements, should be kept in a journal for each plant. Activities will provide an introduction to the life cycle of plants and animals and be introduced to the respiratory and circulatory systems.
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| Gorilla Families |
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| Animals of the Savanna |
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| Reptiles and Amphibians |
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| Birds: Modern-Day Dinosaurs |
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| The Life Cycle of a Mouse |
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| The Life Cycle of a Painted Turtle |
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Unit 5: Ecosystems
This unit builds on the previous unit “Living Organisms” by undertaking a deeper study of ecosystems. The unit provides opportunities to construct and care for a model ecosystem as well as to research and report on actual ecosystems in Louisiana and around the world.
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| Creating a City Park: Dividing Three-Digit Numbers by One-Digit Numbers Without Remainders |
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| What’s Under the Sea? |
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| What Lives on a Prairie? |
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| The Amazon and the Sahara: Using Double Line Graphs and Double Bar Graphs |
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| Recycling a Can |
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| Exploring the Grand Canyon |
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| The Galapagos Islands |
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| Exploring Australia: Using Charts, Graphs, and Tables |
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| Let’s Take a Hike! Converting Fractions to Decimals |
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| The Ecosystem of a Fallen Tree |
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Unit 6: Planet Earth and Its Moon
During this unit activities explore some of the processes and cycles experienced at Earth’s surface. Investigations involve the slow weathering processes and the effects of erosion, violent geological events, the water cycle, the study of weather, and the effects of human efforts to manage and use natural resources. Additional activities provide an opportunity to study the Earth, Moon and Sun patterns.
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| Galileo: Man of Science |
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| Dennis Tito: First Space Tourist |
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| Space Rocks: A Look at Asteroids and Comets |
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| All About the Moon |
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| Space Circles: Learning about Radius and Diameter |
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| Hands-on Projects About Earth and Space |
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| Space Math |
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| The History of Space Exploration: Sequencing Events Chronologically on a Timeline |
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| Warning: Volcano! The Story of Mount St. Helens |
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| Beneath Earth’s Surface |
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| Hands-on Projects About Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils |
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| Icthyosaurus and Little Mary Anning |
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| Where Does Rain Come From? |
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| I Wonder Why the Sky is Blue |
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| Water in the Atmosphere |
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| When There Were Dinosaurs: Using Expanded Notation to Represent Numbers in the Millions |
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| Everyday Physical Science Experiments with Gravity |
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Unit 7: Structure and Form
This unit introduces the study of living things, emphasizing and comparing their form, functions, structures, and adaptations.
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| How Leaves Change Color |
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| Amazing Animals: Multiplying Multidigit Numbers by a One-Digit Number with Regrouping |
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| Producers in the Food Chain |
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Unit 8: Foods and Nutrition
This unit introduces a basic understanding of the nutrients needed for an individual’s growth, development, and energy. Simple menus will be planned and compared to the USDA’s Food Guide Pyramid. Additional activities include reading and analyzing the nutritional labels on purchased food products.
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| How Do You Feel Today? |
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| Chinese Foods and Recipes |
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| A Mexican Feast: The Foods and Recipes of Mexico |
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| Native American Foods and Recipes |
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| Pilgrim Foods and Recipes |
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| Civil War Recipes: Adding and Subtracting Simple Fractions |
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