4th Grade Science

August - December

Structure and Function of Organisms

• How do plant & animal structures help them survive?
  How do animals sense and see?

Reducing Impacts

• How do living and nonliving things change the Earth’s surface?
• What can rock formations tell us about history?
• How are people affected by natural hazards?

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January - May

Energy and Collisions and Information Transmission

• How are energy and speed related?
• What happens when objects collide?

Energy Transfer

• How do waves travel?
• How do waves transmit information?
• What are the different types of energy?
• How does energy transfer from one object to another?