4th Grade Science - Student Outcomes

The student will...

• plan and implement lab investigations
• use the scientific method
• analyze information, make informed decisions, and use a variety of tools to collect information
• use computers & technology tools to support scientific investigations
• identify components and processes of the natural world (properties of soil, effects of oceans on land, role of the sun, physical properties of matter, heat - as it changes in the stated of matter)
• learn the roles of living/nonliving in simple systems (differences between learned and inherited traits) adaptations
• understand systems - a collection of cycles, structures and processes that interact (change & constancy in patterns; time, space, energy, matter) predictions - change over time
• understand that methods, models, conclusions are built from investigation but can change as new observations are made