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Troup County School System Science Curriculum Map Fourth Grade- First Quarter To be taught the first 4 weeks of the grading period Life Science The underlined standard/element links to examples of formative assessment. GPS Standards Essential Questions Vocabulary System Resources

S4L1 Students will describe the roles of S4L1 S4L1 S4L1 organisms and the flow of energy within an What are producers, Organisms HM Science: ecosystem. consumers, and decomposers? Ecosystems  L1.a Chapter 7: Lessons 2 (278-282) and 3 a. Identify the roles of producers, consumers, Producers (288-291) and decomposers in a community. What role do they play in a Consumers  L1.b Chapter 8: Lessons 1 and 2 community? Decomposers Community Lab Experience: A Tangled Web, Dissect a Food Web b. Demonstrate the flow of energy through a How does energy flow through  Direct Inquiry Lesson: A Tangled Web – food web/food chain beginning with sunlight a food chain? Flow of Energy Student Text 305 and including producers, consumers, and Food Web  Express Lab Card 24: Dissect a Food Web – decomposers. Food Chain TE 309 Omnivore Herbivore Differentiation: Carnivore (check with reading teacher for students’ reading levels) Support Readers:  Parts of Ecosystems  Matter and Energy in Ecosystems Harcourt Leveled Readers:  Ecosystem Energy (S4L1.a, S4L1.b)  Energy Transfer in Ecosystems (S4L1.a, S4L1.b) Interactive Text:  Ecosystems

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GPS Standards Essential Questions Vocabulary System Resources

Troup County Schools 2014 1 4th Grade Science First Quarter S4L1

Ideas for differentiation: S4L1

Reading A-Z:  The Amazing Undersea Food Web Lexile 831-860  The Amazing Amazon Lexile 771-800

Discovery Education:  Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers (4:39)  You in the Food Web (18:48)

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Troup County Schools 2014 2 4th Grade Science First Quarter S4L1 S4L1 S4L1 S4L1 c. Predict how changes in the environment How can changing an Environment HM Science: would affect a community (ecosystem) of environment affect the  L1.d Chapter 8: Lesson 1, pg 312-313 organisms. ecosystem of organisms? Chapter 9: Lesson 2 (Note: In 3rd grade students explained what will happen to an organism if the habitat is Lab Experience: Make a Terrarium changed. New learning is to predict how  Direct Inquiry: What Threatens the Survival of changes affect the ecosystem.) Species? TE 340-341  Express Lab Card 22: Make a Terrarium – TE 282 d. Predict effects on a population if some of the How does a scarcity or Population Reading A-Z: plants or animals in the community are scarce abundance of plants and Predator  Galapagos Wonder Lexile 771-800 or if there are too many. animals affect a community? Prey  Coral Reefs Lexile 771-800 Scarcity Over population Differentiation: Under population (check with reading teacher for your students’ reading levels) Support Readers:  Parts of Ecosystems  Matter and Energy in Ecosystems HM Leveled Readers:  Wild Adaptations (S4L1.c, S4L1.d)  Why Are You Here? (S4L1.c, S4L1.d) Harcourt Leveled Readers:  Understanding Ecosystems (S4L1.c)  Amazing Ecosystems (S4L1.c)

Discovery Education:  How Human Activities Affect the Balance of Nature (3:17)

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S4L2 Students will identify factors that S4L2 S4L2 S4L2 Troup County Schools 2014 3 4th Grade Science First Quarter affect the survival or extinction of HM Science: organisms such as adaptation, variation of Survival  L2.a Chapter 9: Lesson 1 behaviors (hibernation), and external Adaptation  L2.b Chapter 9: Lessons 2 and 3 features (camouflage and protection). Hibernation Migration Lab Experience: Algae Growth, Terrarium, a. Identify external features of organisms that What are some external Mimicry Causes of Extinction allow them to survive or reproduce better than features of an organism that will Beaks  Direct Inquiry Lesson: Algae Growth – organisms that do not have these features (for help it to survive or reproduce? Camouflage Student Text 341 example: camouflage, use of hibernation, Protection  Pressed for Time Lab: Terrarium – TE 341 protection, etc.). Why do animals hibernate and Reproduce  Direct Inquiry Lesson: Causes of Extinction – migrate? Student Text 349

Reading A-Z:  Mysterious Caves Lexile 770-830  Galapagos Wonders Lexile 771-800  The Mighty Saguaro Cactus Lexile 771-800  Hoofed Animals Lexile 771-830 Why do some organisms b. Identify factors that may have led to the become endangered and Extinction Differentiation: extinction of some organisms. extinct? Nutrients (check with reading teacher for your students’ (Note: In 1st grade students identified the basic Habitat reading levels) needs of plants and animals. In 3rd grade Pollute Support Readers: students explained the effects of pollution on Pollution  Adaptation and Extinction the habitats of plants and animals. New Sewage HM Leveled Readers: learning is to identify factors that may lead Overpopulation  Wild Adaptations (S4L2) to extinction.)  Wangari Maathai, Planting Trees for the Future (S4L2.b) Harcourt Leveled Readers:  Adaptations (S4L2.a)  Animals and Adaptations (S4L2.a)

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Discovery Education: Troup County Schools 2014 4 4th Grade Science First Quarter  Exploring the Diversity of Life: Not What They Seem (10:00)  Animals Prepare for Winter (3:04)  Animal Adaptations (24:00)  Animals Around Us: Animal Adaptations: What Are They? (14:00)

Picture Perfect Science:  Chapter 10: Mystery Pellets  Chapter 11: Close Encounters  Chapter 12: Turtle Hurtles Characteristics of Science - Ongoing Standards Vocabulary S4CS1 Students will be aware of the importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, and skepticism in Traits science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to understand how the world works. ClickInvestigations here for other lessons and resources a. Keep records of investigations and observations and do not alter the records later. Observations b. Carefully distinguish observations from ideas and speculation about those observations. Speculation c. Offer reasons for findings and consider reasons suggested by others. Safety d. Take responsibility for understanding the importance of being safety conscious. S4CS2 Students will have the computation and estimation skills necessary for analyzing data and Computation, Estimation, following scientific explanations. Analyzing data, a. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers mentally, on paper, and with a calculator. Scientific explanations, Quantities, S4CS6b. Use fractions Students and will decimals, question and scientific translate claims between and decimals arguments and effectively.commonly encountered fractions – halves, ScientificLength, Area, Claims Volume, Weight, Time a.thirds, Support fourths, statements fifths, tenths, with facts and hundredthsfound in books, (but articles,not sixths, and sevenths, databases, and and so identifyon) – in thescientific sources calculations. used. Arguments b.c. JudgeIdentify whether when comparisons measurements might and not computations be fair because of quantities, some conditions such as are length, different. area, volume, weight, or time, are S4CS7reasonable Students answers will to be scientific familiar problems with the by character comparing of themscientific to typical knowledge values. and how it is achieved. Scientific Knowledge Students will recognize that: Scientific Investigations S4CS3a. Similar Students scientific will investigations use tools and seldom instruments produce exactly for observing, the same measuring, results, which and may manipulating differ due to objects unexpected in Observation, Measurement, Manipulating, scientificdifferences activities in whatever utilizing is being safe investigated, laboratory unrecognized procedures. differences in the methods or circumstances of the Utilizing, a.investigation, Choose appropriate or observational common uncertainties. materials for making simple mechanical constructions and repairing things. Laboratory, Procedures, b. MeasureSome scientific and mix knowledge dry and liquid is very materials old and in yet prescribed is still applicable amounts, today. exercising reasonable safety. Mechanical Construction c.S4CS8 Use computers, Students will cameras, understand and recording important devices features for capturing of the process information. of scientific inquiry. Scientific Inquiry d.Students Identify willand applypractice the accepted following safety to inquiry procedures learning in manipulating practices: science materials and equipment. Specimens S4CS4a. Scientific Students investigations will use mayideas take of system,many different model, forms, change, including and scale observing in exploring what things scientific are like and or what is System,Analysis Model, Scale, Graphs, technologicalhappening somewhere, matters. collecting specimens for analysis, and doing experiments. Technology,Essential Maps, Number Lines, a.b. ObserveClear and and active describe communication how parts isinfluence an essential one anotherpart of doing in things science. with manyIt enables parts. scientists to inform others about GeometricExpose Figures, b.their Use work, geometric expose figures, their ideas number to criticism sequences, by other graphs, scientists, diagrams, and sketches,stay informed number about lines, scientific maps, discoveries and stories around to NumberCriticisms Sequences, Diagrams, Sketches, representthe world. corresponding features of objects, events, and processes in the real world. Identify ways in which the CorrespondingAccurately Features, representationsc. Scientists use do technology not match to their increase original their counterparts. power to observe things and to measure and compare things Representations,Involves c.accurately. Identify patterns of change in things—such as steady, repetitive, or irregular change—using records, tables, or OriginalEngages Counterparts, graphsd. Science of measurements involves many wheredifferent appropriate. kinds of work and engages men and women of all ages and backgrounds. Patterns:Backgrounds steady, repetitive, irregular change S4CS5 Students will communicate scientific ideas and activitiesTroup clearly. County Schools 2014 Scientific Procedure, 5 a. Write instructions that others can follow in carrying out a scientific procedure.4th Grade Science Numerical Data, Describe, Compare, CD b. Make sketches to aid in explaining scientific procedures or ideas. First Quarter Roms c. Use numerical data in describing and comparing objects and events. Scientific Information, d. Locate scientific information in reference books, back issues of newspapers and magazines, CD-ROMs, and Reference Books, computer databases. Computer Databases