Grade 4 first term objectives

By the end of this curriculum, the student should be able to:

1. Model the relationships among an organism's survival, habitat, adaptations and body systems.
2. Argue from evidence that plants and animals have structures and behaviors that help them survive and grow.
3. Explain how structural adaptations help organisms survive in specific environments.
4. Argue from evidence that multiple adaptations or organs work together in systems to help organisms survive in
specific habitats.

5. Develop models illustrating how animals receive, process and react to information in their environments.
6. Explain how organs and systems work together to process and respond to input from the senses.
7. Plan and carry out investigations to produce evidence that the senses play a role in reaction time.
8. Compare solutions that use patterns to transfer information.
9. Develop a model of a communication system with many parts that work together to transfer information from one
place to another.

10. Argue, using evidence, that light and sound allow for the transfer of information through systems of communication.
11. Compare innovative human designs to systems of communication in the natural world.
12. Design, test, and evaluate models of information-transfer systems that can send and receive coded information.
13. Explain and model what causes objects to change motion. |
14. Analyze data to explain different causes of changes in an object's motion.
15. Cite evidence to show how speed is related to energy for an object.
16. Model the cause-and-effect relationship between the force acting on an object and the its motion.
17. Investigate the forms of energy in a system or for an object.
18. Apply logical reasoning to predict the types of energy for an object.
19. Cite evidence to explain how energy is conserved.
20. Describe how light transfers energy across distances.
21. Develop a model that describes how the behavior of light enables the eye to see objects.
22. Explain how adaptations help some animals gather information in the dark.
23. Analyze and interpret data to describe how the speed and mass of objects relate to changes observed in a collision.
24. Calculate the speed of objects using standard units of measurement.