Introduction

This Pennsylvania Learns iTunes U course is a collection of resources to support teaching and learning in the Grade 4 classroom. The content of this course is organized around the Grade 4 Pennsylvania Academic Standards for and Technology and Engineering. We believe that Pennsylvania teachers know what is needed to support their instructional design and delivery, as well as what engages students in their own learning. For these reasons, the materials and resources provided in this course were curated by teachers. This course is not a curriculum; rather, it is a collection of assets aligned to Pennsylvania Academic Standards to support teaching and learning. The topics found in this course do not need to be taught in order.

1 Info about the URL Assignment / Call to (published on the "i" Module Title Message Action (200 Character Content Directions Resource / URL Notes button of a resource/ Max) url) In this module, you will learn Earth's place in space, 3.3. Earth and Space as well as properties that comprise the earth's surface and how our globe has changed over the years.

Earth Structure, In this lesson, you will learn about landforms and the LEARN about the https:// VIDEO Processes and processes, including weathering, that change these different kinds of www.youtube.com/ Cycles: Earth landforms over time. 3.3.4.A1. elements that can change watch?v=H2h6uXlL8gI Features and the the Earth's surface. Processes that Change It LEARN about the layers https:// VIDEO of the earth. www.youtube.com/ watch?v=NAHY6965o08 EXPLORE the attributes https://itunes.apple.com/ APP: of earth's landforms. us/app/earths-landforms- Earth's Landforms school/id835600448? mt=8 CREATE an instructional https://itunes.apple.com/ iMovie video that ILLUSTRATES us/app/imovie/ the layers of the earth. id377298193?mt=8 LEARN the movement of https:// VIDEO plate tectonics. www.youtube.com/ watch?v=tcPghqnnTVk LEARN about the https://itunes.apple.com/ process of weathering. us/book/weathering/ ASSESS your id960167497?mt=11 understanding of weathering with a quiz. EXPLORE examples of http:// weathering and erosion. www.geography4kids.co m/files/ land_weathering.html INVESTIGATE real world https:// examples of weathering www.youtube.com/ and erosion. watch?v=R-Iak3Wvh9c IDENTIFY qualities of https://docs.google.com/ PDF COMPLETED erosion and weathering. drawings/d/ CREATE a presentation 18WzinauJ2cw7SiK5DUf using Explain Everything 307F- and uploading the a3ukQk0ZlKEDlUcyyH0/ document. pub?w=966&h=644

2 Earth’s Resources: In this lesson, you will explore rocks and identify LEARN about rocks and https://itunes.apple.com/ This book has interactive Exploring and various types of rock based on their properties. soil. us/book/rocks-soil/ pages with a quiz Identifying Various 3.3.4.A2. id597244595?mt=11 embedded. Kinds of Rocks LEARN about the 3 types https:// of rocks and their www.youtube.com/ attributes. watch?v=jPgE74Vltdc EXPLORE examples of http:// Student will use the the different kinds of www.sciencekids.co.nz/ informaiton to create the rocks. sciencefacts/earth/ rock cycle rocksandminerals.html SHARE your Please feel free to use understanding of https://itunes.apple.com/ another presentation different types of rocks as us/app/explain- program if you so well as the rock cycle as everything-interactive/ choose. you CREATE an id431493086?mt=8 informational video. CONSTRUCT your own https://itunes.apple.com/ virtual world using variety us/app/sandbox-build- of earth materials. create-your/ id520777858?mt=8

LEARN how fossils are https:// This is questionable on formed. www.youtube.com/ Copyright - Awesome Earth’s History: In this lesson, you will learn about fossil formation as watch?v=3rkGu0BItKM video with good details Learning About well as using fossils to compare with living creatures but looks like brainpop Fossils today. 3.3.4.A3. 3.1.4.C3. video but is not labled as such LEARN about fossils. http:// Includes a video that READ with VIDEO www.kidsdinos.com/ explains about fossils. palaeontology-what-are- fossils.php EXPLORE a prehistoric https://itunes.apple.com/ $2.99 dig site to discover fossils us/app/prehistoric-fish- and clues to the ancient bones/id977955327? past. mt=12 PRESENT 3 facts you https://itunes.apple.com/ APP: learned about fossils. us/app/pic-collage- Pic Coll photo-video-text/ id448639966?mt=8 LEARN about radioactive http:// VIDEO dating. www.sciencechannel.co m/tv-shows/greatest- discoveries/videos/100- greatest-discoveries- plate-tectonics/

3 In this lesson, you will learn about where various https:// forms of water can be found on our planet, and will LEARN about the water Earth’s History: Water www.youtube.com/ investigate transforming water from one state to cycle. watch?v=zBnKgwnn7i4 another. 3.3.4.A4. EXPLORE the water https://itunes.apple.com/ cycle and the variables us/app/the-water-cycle/ which affect it. id483114651?mt=8 http:// LEARN about the location www.greenfacts.org/en/ and forms of water on water-resources/ earth. index.htm#2 INVESTIGATE the http://water.usgs.gov/ qualities of the water edu/watercycle-kids- cycle. beg.html LEARN about earth's http:// water distribution and www.greenfacts.org/en/ ANALYZE the information water-resources/images/ graphic. figure-4-1.jpg DEMONSTRATE an https://itunes.apple.com/ understanding of earth's You can save the image us/app/explain- water. CREATE a to your camera roll and everything-interactive/ presentation about the import into your app. id431493086?mt=8 previous graphic.

https:// LEARN about weather Earth's History: www.youtube.com/ Describe basic weather elements. fronts and how they affect Weather and Climate watch? Identify weather patterns over time. 3.3.4.A5. weather. v=G7Ewqm0YHUI INVESTIGATE the https:// qualities of cold and www.youtube.com/ warm fronts. watch?v=naarbGHoAGU LEARN about what https:// causes air pressure and www.youtube.com/ its affect on the weather. watch?v=aiYyCurh_SU As you explore the https://itunes.apple.com/ different weather maps EXPLORE different types us/app/weather- choose one to of weather data. underground-forecasts/ screenshot and explain id486154808?mt=8 in the next activity. DEMONSTRATE an https://itunes.apple.com/ understanding of weather. us/app/explain- CREATE a presentation everything-interactive/ to share your id431493086?mt=8 understanding.

Earth and Space https:// In this lesson, you will explore the solar system, Sciences: LEARN about our solar www.youtube.com/ including the orbit of the earth, and the planets Composition and system. watch? within it. 3.3.4.B1., 3.3.4.B2. Structure v=Qd6nLM2QlWw

4 EXPLORE the orbit of http:// earth and other attributes www.planetsforkids.org/ it has within our solar planet-earth.html system. INTERACT with our solar https://itunes.apple.com/ system and earth's orbit us/app/a-solar-system- and the variables that journey/id444804070? affect them. mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/ app/id347546771? INVESTIGATE our solar &referrer=click system and the planets %3D01dbeeb2- within it. cdf8-46c1-b715- e027fbc86f4d

5 Info about the URL Assignment / Call to (published on the "i" Module Title Message Action (200 Character Content Directions Resource / URL Notes button of a resource/ Max) url) 3.2. Physical In this module, you will discover that matter is the Sciences: building blocks of , and energy is necessary for and sustaining life. You will explore various forms of energy and will uncover the changing states of matter through interactive lessons, videos, and engaging articles.

Chemistry: Properties In this lesson, you will investigate the process of https:// of Matter & Energy changing states of matter and learn more about LEARN about the www.youtube.com/ these processes as they occur in the environment changing states of matter. watch?v=jd0RXHfIKJQ and in daily life. 3.2.4.A1, 3.2.4.A3, 3.2.4.A5 http:// INVESTIGATE the easyscienceforkids.co process and affects of m/all-about-states-of- changing states of matter. matter/ LEARN more about the http://idahoptv.org/ states of matter and the sciencetrek/topics/ changes that can occur. matter/facts.cfm DEMONSTRATE your https:// understanding of the itunes.apple.com/us/ changing states of matter. app/explain- CREATE a presentation everything-interactive/ to share your id431493086?mt=8 understanding. http://cache.eb.com/ LEARN about new-multimedia/mp4/ conservation of mass. matter101.mp4

Chemistry: Structure In this lesson, you will learn that atoms are the https:// of Matter building blocks of matter and will model this LEARN about atoms the www.youtube.com/ understanding through investigations of their building block of matter. watch?v=hc0EtPPpZUU attributes. 3.2.4.A2 LEARN about what an http:// atom is and how it fits into www.chem4kids.com/ our . files/atom_intro.html DISCOVER why atoms http:// are the building blocks of www.chem4kids.com/ matter. files/atom_structure.html MODEL understanding of https://drive.google.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/ the parts of an atom. file/d/ us/app/explain- CREATE a presentation 0B99Um_mvTWdGSFYx everything-interactive/ to share your dnVnVUpWS2s/view? id431493086?mt=8 understanding. usp=sharing

1 INVESTIGATE the attributes of atoms and https://itunes.apple.com/ molecules and how us/app/atom-builder/ modifying atoms changes id549485037?mt=8 them.

In this lesson, you will learn about compounds and https:// LEARN about Chemistry: Reactions investigate the effects of combining various www.youtube.com/ compounds. elements together through interactive apps. 3.2.4.A4 watch?v=avgFqlNML5o This is a fictional app that allows you to explore how INVESTIGATE combining compounds are made. https://itunes.apple.com/ elements together and Try to produce as many us/app/toca-lab/ applying other variables. compounds as you can id748057890?mt=8 and notice what changes them. ENGAGE in the NOVA https://itunes.apple.com/ app to EXPLORE the us/app/nova-elements/ many elements found in id512772649?mt=8&ign- our world. mpt=uo%3D8

Physics: Force & In this lesson, you will investigate forces in motion as http:// Motion of Particles they you learn about Newton's Laws. 3.2.4.B1 www.physicsclassroom.c LEARN about inertia and Read only the first section and Rigid Bodies om/class/newtlaws/ the motion of objects. "Inertia and Mass". Lesson-1/Inertia-and- Mass LEARN about Newton's http:// Three Laws of Motion www.slideshare.net/ and how they are icheema/newtons-laws- represented in the of-motion-with-real-life- physical world. examples LEARN about work, https:// force, energy and motion www.youtube.com/ and the relationship watch?v=iCqm5uxc2dE between them. LEARN about Newton's https:// First Law of Motion in this www.youtube.com/ video demonstration. watch?v=--MDILG7Znk http:// DISCOVER examples of www.physics4kids.com/ mechanics and motion. files/motion_intro.html LEARN about kinematics http://www.school-for- Read through some of the and motion. ASSESS champions.com/science/ examples found on this your understanding of motion.htm#.Vbj07pNVh website. kinematics and motion Bc https:// INVESTIGATE the phet.colorado.edu/sims/ variables that affect html/forces-and-motion- forces, motion, friction basics/latest/forces-and- and acceleration. motion-basics_en.html

2 Energy Storage and In this lesson, you will identify forms of kinetic and LEARN about the http:// Transformations: potential energy, as well as identify real-world forms different types of energy www.slideshare.net/ Conservation Laws of energy. 3.2.4.B2, 3.2.4.B3 and IDENTIFY their real- Cristinam0626/types-of- world application. energy-10076124 LEARN about kinetic and http://www.eia.gov/Kids/ potential energy and energy.cfm? examples of each type. page=about_forms_of_e nergy-basics-k.cfm REVIEW the different http:// forms of energy. www.eschooltoday.com/ energy/kinds-of-energy/ all-about-energy.html TAKE this quiz to http://www.proprofs.com/ ASSESS your quiz-school/story.php? understanding of energy title=energy-transfer_1 and energy transfer.

Electrical and In this lesson, you will read about magnets in https:// LEARN about electrical Magnetic Energy everyday life, and will interact with applications to www.youtube.com/ circuits. explore electrical circuits. 3.2.4.B4 watch?v=VnnpLaKsqGU http:// LEARN about series and www.slideshare.net/ parallel circuits. Melodia/series-and- parallel https:// LEARN about the types www.youtube.com/ of electrical circuits. watch?v=RQ3djos_LY8 EXPLAIN both parallel https://itunes.apple.com/ and series circuits. us/app/explain- CREATE a presentation everything-interactive/ to explain your thinking. id431493086?mt=8 http:// LEARN about magnets, www.slideshare.net/ their poles, and everyday mercedesrg/profits-of- uses for them. magnetism https://itunes.apple.com/ EXPLORE and us/app/exploriments- INTERACT with simple electricity-simple/ circuits. id490164401?mt=8

Nature of Waves In this lesson, you will explore light and sound LEARN about waves. https://edpuzzle.com/ Link only the first 2:25 Sound and Light through video clips and engaging simulations. media/ Energy 3.2.4.B5 551040203ecc5fad0377 81d9 DISCOVER amazing http://youtu.be/ things that sound waves Ude8pPjawKI can do. LEARN about the transfer http://youtu.be/ of energy through sound 17tqXgvCN0E waves.

3 LEARN about light. https:// www.youtube.com/ watch? v=iletCKDCt_0#t=31 DISCOVER and https:// ENGAGE in how waves phet.colorado.edu/sims/ travel. html/wave-on-a-string/ latest/wave-on-a- string_en.html CONSTRUCT A MODEL http://www.knowitall.org/ Page 19 only if possible to observe amplitude, nasa/pdf/scifiles/ wavelength, and transfer redlight_full.pdf of energy.

4 Info about the URL Assignment / Call to (published on the "i" Module Title Message Action (200 Character Content Directions Resource / URL Notes button of a resource/ Max) url) Life Sciences In this module, you will explore the life cycles of plants and animals, beginning with common threads throughout each cycle, up through natural selection and heredity.

In this lesson, you will discover what plants and RESEARCH and http:// May need permission to ARTICLE Organisms and Cells: animals need to survive in their environment, such RECORD the www.sheppardsoftware.com use this site. Common as air, water, food and shelter. 3.1.4.A1 characteristics of /content/animals/kidscorner/ Characteristics of Life mammals, reptiles, birds, kc_classification_mammals. amphibians, and fish. htm LEARN about the http:// Easy to read article with ARTICLE structures of living things. www.thunderboltkids.co.za/ accompaning photos that GOOD QUALITY Grade4/01-life-and-living/ allow most students to chapter2.html read independently CREATE your own https://itunes.apple.com/us/ APP labeled plant. app/doodle-buddy-for-ipad- Doodle Buddy- paint/id364201083?mt=8 LEARN about the https://itunes.apple.com/us/ The Amoeba Sisters PODCAST function of plant structure itunes-u/the-amoeba- provide several other sisters/id718923638?mt=10 popcasts to help students understand diffcult science concepts. EXTEND your learning http:// Approx. a 4 minute video VIDEO and view this time-lapse www.watchknowlearn.org/ that would be a great video to OBSERVE how Video.aspx? lesson opener or plants move, why plants VideoID=56480&CategoryID discussion starter. move, and how their =6202 structure helps them to survive and grow.

Organisms and Cells: In this lesson, you will learn the basic needs of https://docs.google.com/ Energy Flow plants and animals and will describe what each LEARN the basic needs presentation/d/ needs to survive. 3.1.4.A2 of survival for plants and 11HpzUf7uoG6_ju0GfmDc- animals. C4OKDiZi_RQmBsRbnGEF Sg/embed?slide=id.i0 http://ecosystems.psu.edu/ LEARN what animals youth/sftrc/lesson-plan-pdfs/ need to survive. habitat COMPLETE this Venn http://ecosystems.psu.edu/ diagram MODEL youth/sftrc/lesson-plan-pdfs/ understanding of the diets venn of different animals ASSESS understanding http://ecosystems.psu.edu/ of previous reading as youth/sftrc/lesson-plan-pdfs/ you COMPLETE pages 7 wildlife-all and 8 of this PDF.

1 https://s-media-cache- ak0.pinimg.com/736x/80/ REVIEW the process of e7/8f/ photosynthesis. 80e78f6b81b6ba782854e39 4aae64c64.jpg LEARN about the http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/ importance of the food remediation_hudson_pdf/ chain. hrlpk3fchain.pdf ENGAGE in the food https://itunes.apple.com/us/ chain and the variables app/food-web/ that affect it. id565839214?mt=8

Organisms and Cells: In this lesson, you will experience life cycles of LEARN about plant https://itunes.apple.com/us/ PODCAST Life Cycles plants and animals. You will be able to construct reproduction. podcast/flowering-plant- Flowering Plant - 10 models of demonstrating these life cycles and will reproduction/id718923638? recognize that reproduction is necessary for life to i=308440746&mt=2 continue. 3.1.4.A3, 3.1.4.A8, 3.1.4.B2 DISCOVER some http://www.iflscience.com/ VIDEO unusual life cycles. First, plants-and-animals/male- look at what gives birth to seahorse-births-babies- baby seahorse. underwater-shotgun CREATE a visual display https:// ARTICLE to show the steps in the seahorseproject.wordpress. life of a seahorse. com/2012/01/26/the-life- cycle-of-a-seahorse/ VIEW this video of a http://www.youtube.com/ VIDEO mosquito's life cycle. watch?v=sjV0JpIAH78#t=89 EXPLORE sea turtles http://www.seeturtles.org/ ARTICLE adaptation and their sea-turtle-life-cycle? environment. gclid=CIzB76G1- sECFW5o7AodyCYAAA COMPARE and https://itunes.apple.com/us/ APP CONTRAST the life cycle app/venn-diagram/ Venn Diagram of two of the creatures id666981188?mt=8 you have just learned about. REINFORCE your understanding of the http://www.kidzone.ws/ butterfly life cycle as you animals/monarchlifecycle.gif READ this infographic. PRACTICE identifying the Go to the link, tap and life cycle of the butterfly. hold the picture and http://www.kidzone.ws/ CREATE a presentation choose "Save Image" animals/ to share your Then open in the monarchlifecyclenowords.gif understanding. Explain Everything app.

2 Organisms and Cells: In this lesson, you will learn ways vertebrates and LEARN the basics of http:// A great assignment and ARTICLE Form and Function invertebrates adapt to survive in specific vertebrate. www.biology4kids.com/files/ the invertebrate article environments. 3.1.4.A5 vert_main.html provided on the same website could be to create a Venn Diagram synthesizing these readings LEARN about http:// ARTICLE Invertebrates. www.biology4kids.com/files/ invert_main.html EXPLORE invertebrates http://createwebquest.com/ and vertebrates. chantag/invertebrates-vs- vertebrates CREATE a presentation https://www.haikudeck.com Can use the attached using the notes you took website of download an about vertebrates/ APP invertebrates. SHARE the haikudeck with others. LEARN how animals https://www.youtube.com/ survive in the desert. watch?v=hTfBSIYTG4k

Genetics: Heredity In this lesson, you will describe features visible in LEARN about http:// parents and children. 3.1.4.B1 characteristics that are learn.genetics.utah.edu/ passed down from parent content/inheritance/ to child. observable/ LEARN about heredity https://www.youtube.com/ and examples of what it watch?v=bGiKRD5QHkI is. http:// EXPLORE characteristics Activity is found on teach.genetics.utah.edu/ that are passed down pages 5 and 6. content/heredity/files/ from parent to child. InventoryOfTraits.pdf DISCOVER https:// characteristics that you www.teachervision.com/tv/ share with your parents. printables/ 0876281390_127.pdf

In this lesson, you will learn about climate change LEARN about natural https://www.youtube.com/ : Natural and its effects on the plants and animals living on selection and evolution. watch?v=0SCjhI86grU Selection earth. 3.1.4.C1 LEARN about how http://climatekids.nasa.gov/ climate change affects extreme-weather-birds/ birds. LEARN about climate https://www.youtube.com/ change. watch?v=ko6GNA58YOA

In this lesson, you will explore how plants and https://itunes.apple.com/us/ LEARN about animal Evolution: Adaptation animals have adapted in order to survive on our book/adaptations/ adaptations. ever-changing planet. 3.1.4.C2 id642658736?mt=11

3 Much of this site you EXPLORE how animals can explore. For this http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/ have adapted to extreme lesson you will have to adaptations environments. focus on the "Adapted to extremes" section. LEARN about interesting https://www.youtube.com/ animal and plant watch?v=5WECs5-jNlc adaptations LEARN about defensive https://itunes.apple.com/us/ features organisms book/adaptations/ developed over time. id642658736?mt=11 This is a simulated game that allows you to create and modify a EXPLORE adaption and creature which needs to https://itunes.apple.com/us/ how the environment survive their app/biobots-under-sea- affects them. environment. Take a rescue/id493081393?mt=8 screenshot of your final BioBot and explain in the next activity.

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