Fourth Grade Curriculum Guide 2010-2011
st 1 Quarter 2 nd Quar t e r 3 rd Quarter 4 th Quarter Week 1 Week 10 Week 17 Week 27 8/16 – 8/20 10/25 – 10/29 1/4 – 1/7 3/21 – 3/25 Week 2 Week 11 Week 18 Week 28 8/23 – 8/27 11/1 – 11/5 1/10 – 1/14 3/28 – 4/1 Week 3 Week 12 Week 19 Week 29 8/30 – 9/3 11/8 – 11/12 1/18 – 1/21 4/4 – 4/8 Week 4 Week 13 Week 20 TCAP 9/7 – 9/10 11/15 – 11/19 1/24 – 1/28 4/11 – 4/15 Week 5 Thanksgiving Week Week 21 Week 30 9/13 – 9/17 11/22 – 11/23 1/31 – 2/4 4/18 – 4/22 Week 6 Week 14 Week 22 Week 31 9/20 – 9/24 11/29 – 12/3 2/7 – 2/10 4/25 – 4/29 Week 7 Week 15 Week 23 Week 32 9/27 – 10/1 12/6 – 12/10 2/14 – 2/18 5/2 – 5/6 Week 8 Week 16 Week 24 Week 33 10/4 – 10/8 12/13 – 12/17 2/21 – 2/25 5/9 – 5/13 Week 9 Winter Break Week 25 Week 34 10/11 – 10/15 12/17-1/3 2/28 - 3/4 5/16 – 5/20 Fall Break Week 26 Week 35 10/18-10/22 3/7 – 3/11 5/23 – 5/27
Spring Break Summer Break 3/14-3/18 Math Algebra Reading Function Tables Theme Author’s Data & Probability perspective Making Median, Mode, Range generalizations Projects Context Clues Inference Questioning Affixes/Root Words Fact/Opinion Reality/Fantasy
Transformation 4th grade 4th 9 weeks Balanced Literacy Balanced Math Read Aloud Modeled Writing Mental Math Shared Reading Shared Writing Math Review Guided Reading Guided Writing Concept Lesson Independent Reading Independent Writing Closure Interactive Writing
Social Studies Projects Spiral Review English/Language A r ts Presentations Writing Process Book Reports Power Point based on a Book Report Oral presentation of PowerPoint
Science Research Papers Spiral review Enrichment Life Cycles *Applicable Science Kit Week 27
Standards Common Core Activities Resources State Standards Social Studies 3 Week Unit on The Antebellum Years: These 3 Week Unit on The Antebellum Years: These standards are listed in Week 26. They are intended to activities are listed in Week 26. They are intended to be dispersed throughout the 3 week period. be dispersed throughout the 3 week period.
Science GLE 0407.7.2 Evaluate how some earth materials Tennessee Ball Clay and Falls Creek Falls Text p.140 can be used to solve human problems and enhance State Park the quality of life. 0407.7.4 Use data from a variety of informational texts to analyze and evaluate man’s impact on non-renewable resources. SPI 0407.7.2 Analyze how different earth materials are utilized to solve human problems or improve the quality of life.
Week 28
Standards Common Core Activities Resources State Standards Social Studies GLE 4.1.03 Recognize the contributions of Final Project Suggestions: Text individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, Students research an individual who contributed Internet religious, socioeconomic groups to the development to American or TN history between 11,000 B.C. Library research of civilizations. – 1861 A.D. Encyclopedias GLE 4.1.04 Understand the contributions of individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic groups to Tennessee.
Science GLE 0407.5.2 Describe how environmental changes A closer look: The Tennessee National Text p.19 caused the extinction of various plant and animal Wildlife Refuge species Write a news article describing the 407.3.3 Identify how a variety of organisms extinction of an animal. meet their energy needs. Week 29
Standards Common Core Activities Resources State Standards Social Studies GLE 4.1.03 Recognize the contributions of (Continue) Final Project Suggestions: Text individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, Students research an individual who contributed Internet religious, socioeconomic groups to the development to American or TN history between 11,000 B.C. Library research of civilizations. – 1861 A.D. Encyclopedias GLE 4.1.04 Understand the contributions of individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic groups to Tennessee.
Science GLE 0407.6.1 Analyze patterns, relative movements, Using oreo cookies, students will remove the top of and relationships among the sun, moon, and earth. each cookie. Using a spoon, remove enough of the white frosting to show the phase of the moon. When 0407.6.2 Sequence the major phases of the complete, line up the cookies in the correct order. moon during a lunar cycle SPI 0407.6.1 Organize the phases of the moon in the correct sequence.
Week 30
Standards Common Core Activities Resources State Standards Social Studies GLE 4.1.03 Recognize the contributions of Preparing projects: individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, Students prepare a tri-fold project board religious, socioeconomic groups to the development about the individual they have researched. of civilizations. Students prepare an oral presentation about GLE 4.1.04 Understand the contributions of the individual they have researched individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, Students prepare a PowerPoint of the religious, and socioeconomic groups to Tennessee. individual they have researched.
Science GLE 0407.inq.1 Explore different scientific TCAP Review – play review games, (i.e. Jeopardy, th phenomena by asking questions, making logical Are You Smarter Than a 4 Grader?, Bingo, and predictions, planning investigations and recording data. other PowerPoint games. TCAP TESTING (Suggested afternoon activities during test week)
Standards Common Core Activities Resources State Standards Cross-curricular activities GLE 4.1.11 Read independently for a variety of L it e ra ture Continue or begin a new Essential Literature choice w w w .p ort a p o r t a l.com guest access – mnps4 purposes. Explain major differences between poems, for book study. GLE 4.1.12 Experience various literary and media drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) genres. and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, Some suggested media presentations for social GLE 4.1.13 Develop and sustain a motivation for descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when studies and reading projects are: reading. writing or speaking about a text. PowerPoint Presentations GLE 0401.7.2 Use media to publish and present By the end of the year, read and comprehend Podcasts information. literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, Trading Cards 0401.7.1 Use media (e.g., photographs, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band PowerPoint, dioramas, videos, the arts, proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the End of the year academic games. Four students write high end of the range. online catalogs, nonfiction books, the questions for the game -10 each. Four students Info rmational Text encyclopedias, Internet) to view, read, and By the end of year, read and comprehend are the contestants, 2 are the score keepers, and three represent information and to conduct informational texts, including history/social are the judges. The question writers take turns asking research. studies, science, and technical texts, in the question, the contestants raise their hand when they 0401.7.3 Use media to enhance reports grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, have the answer, the judges call on the contestants. If and oral presentations. with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the a wrong answer is given the other contestants have a range. chance to answer before the wrong answer person can answer again.
Week 31
Standards Common Core Activities Resources State Standards Social Studies GLE 4.1.03 Recognize the contributions of Preparing projects: individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, Students prepare a trifold project board religious, socioeconomic groups to the development about the individual they have researched. of civilizations. Students prepare an oral presentation GLE 4.1.04 Understand the contributions of about the individual they have researched individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, Students prepare a powerpoint of the religious, and socioeconomic groups to Tennessee. individual they have researched.
Science GLE 0407.11.3 Investigate the relationship between Student paired racing with time limit – have Text p240-241 the speed of an object and the distance traveled 2-4 students race while teacher times during a certain time period. students to predict which student runs fastest to prove that fastest student travels further.
Week 32
Standards Common Core Activities Resources State Standards Social Studies GLE 4.1.03 Recognize the contributions of (Continue) Preparing projects: individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, Students prepare a trifold project board about the religious, socioeconomic groups to the development individual they have researched. of civilizations. Students prepare an oral presentation about the GLE 4.1.04 Understand the contributions of individual they have researched individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, Students prepare a powerpoint of the individual religious, and socioeconomic groups to Tennessee. they have researched.
Science GLE 0407.T/E.1 Describe how tools, technology, Think, Talk, and Write Text p 372&373 and inventions help to answer questions and solve Eating away at Pollution problems. Create an invention to solve a household GLE 0407.T/E.2 Recognize that new tools, problem. technology, and inventions are always being developed. 0407.T/E.1 Explain how different inventions and technologies impact people and other living organisms
Week 33
Standards Common Core Activities Resources State Standards Social Studies GLE 4.1.03 Recognize the contributions of Presenting projects: individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, Students exhibit the trifold project boards religious, socioeconomic groups to the development about the person who contributed to the of civilizations. U.S. or TN in chronological order as a GLE 4.1.04 Understand the contributions of timeline presentation. Invite the school to individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, your “museum” exhibit. religious, and socioeconomic groups to Tennessee. Students dress as the individual they researched. Students present their research orally as a “living” timeline. Students present their PowerPoint’s on person who contributed to the U.S. or TN Science GLE 0407.T/E.5 Apply a creative design strategy to Continue inventions started in the previous week. Text p 374 & 375 solve a particular problem generated by societal needs and wants. 0407.Inq.1 Identify specific investigation that could be used to answer a particular question and identify reasons for this choice 0407.Inq.2 Identify tools needed to investigate specific questions 0407.Inq.3 Maintain a science notebook that includes observations, data, diagrams, and
Week 34
Standards Common Core Activities Resources State Standards Social Studies GLE 4.1.03 Recognize the contributions of Continue Presenting projects: individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, Students exhibit the trifold project boards religious, socioeconomic groups to the development about the person who contributed to the of civilizations. U.S. or TN in chronological order as a GLE 4.1.04 Understand the contributions of timeline presentation. Invite the school to individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, your “museum” exhibit. religious, and socioeconomic groups to Tennessee. Students dress as the individual they researched. Students present their research orally as a “living” timeline. Science GLE 0407.T/E.3 Identify appropriate materials, Present invention projects Text p 382 & 383 tools, and machines that can extend or enhance the ability to solve a specified problem
Week 35
Standards Common Core Activities Resources State Standards Social Studies Continue any presentations and prepare for end-of- year.
Science GLE 0407.inq.3 Organize data into appropriate Utilize student surveys and have students present tables, graphs, drawings, or diagrams. results in various forms. GLE 0407.inq.5 Recognize that people may interpret the same results in different ways.