Grade 4 Science Nebraska standards Standards

Earth’s Systems: Processes That Shape the Earth

Gather and analyze data to communicate an understanding of Earth’s systems and processes that shape the Earth.

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.

Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.

Waves: Waves and Information

Gather, analyze, and communicate evidence of waves and the information they transfer.

Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.

Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.

Energy: Conservation and Transfer

Gather, analyze and communicate evidence of energy conservation and transfer.

Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electrical currents.

Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

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.

Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and that their uses affect the environment.

Structure, Function, and Information Processing

Gather and analyze data to communicate an understanding of structure, function and information processing of living things.

Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eyes allows objects to be seen.

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 through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information.