Topic #1 Living & Non-Living Things

 To objectives master the following, the students must be actively engaged in the learning through the process of inquiry. Refer to the attached document which summarizes the Standard 1 Scientific Inquiry Performance Objectives.

Essential questions :
-What is the difference between living and non-living things? 
-Why is reproduction important for survival?
-Where do plants and animals get the "parts," functions, and behaviors that help them interact and respond to their surroundings (living and non-living) to survive?

MST4.E.LE1

Review the needs and characteristics of living things

Living things are both similiar to and different from each other and from nonliving things.                                                               MST4.E.LE1A  Describe the characteristics of and variations between living and nonliving things.

Major Understandings:

1.1a Animals need air, water, and food in order to live and thrive.

1.1b Plants require air, water, nutrients, and light in order to live and thrive.

1.1c Nonliving things do not live and thrive.

1.1d Nonliving things can be human-created or naturally occurring.

MST4.E.LE1B Describe the life processes common to all living things.

Major Understandings:

1.2a Living things grow, take in nutrients, breathe, reproduce, eliminate waste, and die.

Topic #2 Life cycles

MST4.E.LE4:

Review the life cycle...individual plants and animals die...if their species is to continue, they must produce offspring.  Offspring go through changes until they themselves becomr adults and are able to produce their own offspring (germination, growth, seeds: egg, larva, pupa, adult: egg, tadpole, adult; infant, teen, adult)       The continuity of life is sustained through reproduction and development.

 MST4.E.LE4A Describe the major stages in the life cycles of selected plants and animals.

 Major Understandings:

4.1a Plants and animals have life cycles. These may include beginning of a life, development into an adult, reproduction as an adult, and eventually death.

4.1b Each kind of plant goes through its own stages of growth and development that may include seed, young plant, and mature plant.

 4.1c The length of time from beginning of development to death of the plant is called its life span.

 4.1d Life cycles of some plants include changes from seed to mature plant.

 4.1e Each generation of animals goes through changes in form from young to adult. This completed sequence of changes in form is called a life cycle. Some insects change from egg to larva to pupa to adult.

 4.1f Each kind of animal goes through its own stages of growth and development during its life span.

 4.1g The length of time from an animal’s birth to its death is called its life span. Life spans of different animals vary.

MST4.E.LE4B Describe evidence of growth, repair, and maintenance, such as nails, hair, and bone, and the healing of cuts and bruises.

Major Understandings:

4.2a Growth is the process by which plants and animals increase in size.

4.2b Food supplies the energy and materials necessary for growth and repair.

Topic #3 Inherited and Acquired Traits

 MST4.E.LE2:

Review inherited and acquired (learned) traits necessary for survival (including variations that can assist survival) and the adaptations of living things that allow them to survive in their environment even if it changes

 Organisms inherit genetic information in a variety of ways that result in continuity of structure and function between parents and offspring.

 MST4.E.LE2A Recognize that traits of living things are both inherited and acquired or learned.

 Major Understandings:

 2.1a Some traits of living things have been inherited (e.g., color of flowers and number of limbs of animals).

 2.1b Some characteristics result from an individual’s interactions with the environment and cannot be inherited by the next generation (e.g., having scars; riding a bicycle).

 MST4.E.LE2B Recognize that for humans and other living things there is genetic continuity between generations. 

Major Understandings:

 2.2a Plants and animal closely resemble their parents and other individuals in their species.

 2.2b Plants and animals can transfer specific traits to their offspring when they reproduce.

Topic #1 Living & Non-Living Things

Explore –Inquiry Activity #14: Do: What are living things made of (Text pg 21) If you do not have access to a microscope or micro-viewers, substitute with pictures of cells from the internet                          Read: Text chap 1 pg 22-25

See vocab highlighted in the column to the left: plants get water and carbon dioxide to survive…they make there own food by using the energy in sunlight.                                                                               Read Text, chap 1 pg 48-51

See vocab highlighted in the column to the left: Plants have a life cycle (starting with the germination of a seed) that ends in the production of new seeds…these seeds move (wind, animal fur, animal droppings, etc.) and produce new plants that have similar traits as their parents)

Explore-Inquiry Activity #14 Do: Does a seed need water to grow? (Text pg 59) Read Text, chap 1 pg 60-68:

See vocab highlighted in the column to the left: Explore-Inquiry Activity #15a Do:  What makes an earthworm an animal? (Text pg 77)and/or 

Explore-Inquiry Activity #15b: Do: How does an earthworm respond to light? (Text pg 99)and/or   

Explore-Inquiry Activity #16: Do: How does a caterpillar change as it grows? (Text pg 109)                                        Use the Text, chap 2, between 78-104 to point out that all kinds of animals need food, water and air, just like plants 

Topic #2 Life cycles

See vocab highlighted in the column to the left:

Read Text, chap2, pg 110- 114 to review life cycles, life spans,

Topic #3 Inherited /Acquired Traits

Text pg 114-117 Inherited traits, Acquired Traits.

inherited and learned behavior (inherited and acquired characteristics)

Vocabulary Games: Kingdoms of Life(WEB)

Vocabulary Games: Classification(WEB)

Vocabulary Games: Plant Kingdom (WEB)

Science in Motion: Photosynthesis (VIDEO)

Vocabulary Game: Seed Plants(WEB)

eReview: Seed Plants(WEB)

Vocabulary Game: Animal Kingdom(WEB)

Vocabulary Games: Lifecycles(WEB)

Math-
Measurement- using centimeters, inches, grams, milliliters Data tables and graphs- (especially using tallies)

ELA- Narrative Procedure (This does not follow the current pacing guide however they have written them in previous grades)

ELA- Guided Reading: Nonfiction (Focus on Main idea and supporting details, reading the pictures, diagrams, charts, etc.)

Science Yellow Pages- TR40-TR47     Information for the teacher to teach chapters 1-4

Foldable- Instructions p. R27

Language Arts-Foldable-Make a Study Guide  p. 29

ESPET Living Things Clicker Set (SMART)

Writing Link- Describe Plants- p. 69

Foldable-Make a Study Guide  p. 69

Math Link- Solve a Problem- p. 69

Writing Link- Point of View- Write a Story- p. 85

Writing Link- Write an Essay- p. 105

Art Link- p. 105

Writing Link- Point of View- Fictional Narrative- p. 117

Foldable-Make a Study Guide  p. 117

Math Link- Solve a Problem- p.117

Careers in Science- p. 117 

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4th Grade Report Card Objectives 11-12.pdf

4th Grade Instructional Guide 11-12.pdf

Science in Motion: Plant Adaptations(VIDEO)

STANDARD 1_Scientific_Inquiry Attachment.doc