Didactic Planning

Teacher: Subject:
Abigail Bolaños Vargas Science

Level: Teaching period: Periodicity:

Fourth Grade II period 2023 Monthly- June and July

Procedural Expected Learning

Content Indicators Mediation Strategies Evaluation

Structure, Construct an argument This unit builds upon what students learned in Grade 1 about animal senses and about how plants and animals make use of Assessment Handbook,
Function, and that plants and animals external structures to meet their needs. In Grade 3, students also learned about how the environment influences the structure and pp. 27–28
Information have internal and function of an organism’s traits. Students now deepen and extend that knowledge as they learn about systems and system models
Processing external structures that and develop their own models to describe the function of animal senses. Students also develop models to describe how internal Assessment Handbook,
function to support
and external structures interact within plant systems and animal systems. The lessons in this sequence, students build on their pp. 30–31
survival, growth,
knowledge of the external structures of plants and animals and explore internal structures, using a wild rose and an elephant as representative
behavior, and
organisms. In the Think Like a Scientist activity, they apply what they have learned to construct arguments about how internal and external Rubrics for all
reproduction.
structures support survival in other plants and animals. Stories in Science enhances students’ learning with the story of how acoustic biologist Investigates, STEM
Katy Payne studied elephants’ use of infrasound to communicate with one another. Projects, and Think Like
 External Structures of a Wild Rose (110–111) Video Clip: Time Lapse of Wild Rose Blooming a Scientist lesson
 Internal Structures of a Wild Rose (112–113) Animation: Structure of a Flower
Life Science Gallery
 External Structures of an Elephant (116–117) Video Clip: Elephant Using Trunk to Gather Food
Life Science Gallery
 Internal Organs of an Elephant (118–119)
 Bones and Muscles of an Elephant (120-121)
 Bones and Muscles of an Elephant (122-123)