Objectives.
Technology is a crucial part of the 4th grade classroom, as students use it for extensive writing and research. In addition, 4th graders are encouraged to be more independent in their learning, depending less on the teacher‘s guidance and researching, planning, and revising their work more by themselves.
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The content of most 4th grade curricula pushes students to think, analyze, and learn in more sophisticated and prepared ways. Students are taught to deeply think about and make connections in what they read and learn; write with clarity, flow, and structure; and learn more complex concepts across all subjects.
:National Arts Standards
:National Arts Standards
- Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
- Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
- Refine and complete artistic work.
- Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.
- Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
- Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
- Perceive and analyze artistic work.
- Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
- Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
- Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
- Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding
- Uses specific examples from the text to explain characters’ motivations, main events, central themes, or ideas about a text.
- Uses the context of a text to determine the meaning of a word.
- Understands and can explain the differences between narrative prose, drama, and poetry.
- Identifies and refers to the different parts of poems and plays, such as verses, settings, and characters.
- Interprets and connects information from illustrations, graphs, charts, or other sources related to the text.
- Identifies, compares, and contrasts different perspectives from which texts are written. (For example, 1st and 3rd person).
- Compares and contrasts the way different texts address the same issue, theme, or topic.
- Makes connections between people, events, or important ideas in a text.
- Uses previous knowledge to read unfamiliar multi-syllable words.
- Reads grade-level texts with accurate comprehension, pacing, and expression.
- Writes opinion pieces that express a point of view; have an introduction, a conclusion, reasons, and facts to support the opinion; and group together related ideas.
- Writes informative/explanatory pieces that present information on a topic, use facts and details, group together related topics; provides introductions and conclusions in these pieces.
- Writes narrative pieces that use specific details, descriptions, and dialogue to convey a real event; includes an introduction and conclusion in each piece.
- Plans, revises, and edits his writing.
- Uses technology to publish, research, and communicate with others under the proper guidance of an adult or teacher.
- Types with beginning accuracy and ability (for example, types one page of text within one sitting).
- Completes research projects by taking notes, organizing them, and presenting them; lists the texts and resources used.
- Writes for both long (over weeks) and shorter (one sitting or a couple of days) periods of time.
- Uses addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to solve word problems, including word problems that require multiple steps and computations.
- Adds and subtracts multi-digit numbers.
- Multiplies a number that has up to 4 digits by a 1-digit number, (for example, 2345 x 6) and multiplies two 2-digit numbers by each other, (for example, 13 x 16).
- Solves division equations with remainders.
- Solves word problems that measure distance, time, size, money, area, and perimeter.
- Predicts answers to word problems and equations based on knowledgeable estimation.
- Understands the concepts of and learns the multiples and factors for numbers 1-100.
- Follows a pattern or set of guidelines to determine a number. For example: Start with 5. Add 3 five times and subtract 1. What number are you left with?
- Compares and explains why one fraction is bigger or smaller than another using visuals and/or common denominators.
- Begins to add and subtract fractions, including within word problems.
- Begins to write and compare fractions as decimals.
- Reads and writes multi-digit numbers using bases of ten and expanded forms. For example: 4,538 = 4 thousands, 5 hundreds, 3 tens, and 8 ones.
- Compares multi-digit number using < and >.
- Rounds multi-digit numbers to any place.
- Creates and uses graphs to represent data and answer questions (specifically, creates line plots).
- Begins to learn about, measure, and decipher the angles of a shape.
- Explains your thinking and how you solve math equations and word problems both verbally and through writing.
- Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allow objects to be seen
- Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time
- Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation
- Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features
- Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment
- Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans
- Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction
- Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways
- Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost
- Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents
- Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another
- Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information
- Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object
- Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide
- Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved
- Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move
- Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers for changes in a landscape over time to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time
- Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation
- Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem
- Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move
- Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth's features
- Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment
- Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem
- Studies and uses maps to gain a deeper understanding of geography and how geography affects a community.
- Researches, organizes, and presents his research on various topics, events, and figures.
- Discusses topics focusing on explaining his opinion using specific details, facts, and reasons to support his opinion.
- Writes essays that state an opinion; includes supporting facts for that opinion.
- Reads primary and secondary sources about different events, people, and topics.
- Uses technology to research both past and current events and topics.
- Deepens their understanding of government and civic responsibility.
- Deepens their understanding of basic economic principles and how one’s community affects his or her economy and business.
- Uses and creates multiple types of sources including art, film, poetry and fiction to learn and show what they have learned about historical events and social studies topics.
- Understands different concepts, such as cause and effect, in order to explain and learn why things happen or happened.
- Compares different events and retellings of the same event.
- Discusses American holidays and important days and events as they approach.
- Describe healthy food choices, nutrients, and the many influences on their food choices.
- Monitor their physical activity and ways to increase the amount of time they are physically active.
- Prevent many types of injuries by using appropriate safety equipment and avoiding or reducing risks.
- Plan responses to emergencies and natural disasters, identify trusted adults, and practice conflict resolution techniques.
- Determine skills to avoid and report bullying and harassment and to resist involvement in gang activities.
- Analyze the harmful effects of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs and ways to cope with situations involving them, including refusal skills.
- Required participation in 120 minutes of physical education every tens day. Students should arrive to school in comfortable shoes and clothing so as to permit enjoyable health experiences.