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4th Grade Program
Your 4th grade students will spend an exciting day role-playing as predators and prey, sea turtles, and ants to learn about factors that affect wildlife. They’ll also design their own birds to see how body structure and behavior help animals to survive.
The class will also examine and test various rocks and minerals to discover how rocks are transformed by heat and pressure. And we’ll hike to the lake to discover how rocks can be used to purify water.
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Program Activities
1. Adaptation Artistry (Learning Objectives 1.02, 1.03)
Students design and create imaginary birds with different variations structuring them to survive in a particular habitat.
2. Predators and Prey (Learning Objectives 1.03, 1.04)
Students become "predator" and "prey" in this role-play game to learn how animals adapt their behavior and body structures to survive in changing habitats.
3. Turtle Hurdles (Learning Objective 1.01)
Students learn about the living and non-living things that can affect the life of a sea turtle in this high-action simulation game.
4. Ants on a Twig (Learning Objective 1.05)
Students observe and demonstrate ant behavior to identify similarities and differences in basic needs of ants and humans.
5. Melt-A-Rock (Learning Objectives 2.03, 2.04)
Students explore how rocks change from igneous to sedimentary to metamorphic and simulate the process using candy.
6. Rock Charting (Learning Objective 2.06)
Students work in small groups to classify rocks using student-made rules and discuss the uses of several rocks.
7. Mineral Tests (Learning Objective 2.01, 2.02)
Students discuss the properties of several minerals while conducting a series of tests on the samples.
8. Settling Down (Learning Objective 2.05)
Students investigate how different sediments settle into layers by experimenting with silt, gravel, pebbles, and sand then discover how these layers form a natural water filter.
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Competency Goals Covered:
1. The learner will observations and conduct investigations to build an understanding of animal behavior and adaptation.
2. The learner will conduct investigations and use appropriate technology to build an understanding of the composition and uses of rocks and minerals.
Learning Objectives Covered:
1.01 Observe and describe how all living and nonliving things affect the life of a particular animal including: Other animals, Plants, Weather, Climate.
1.02 Observe and record how animals of the same kind differ in some of their characteristics and discuss possible advantages and disadvantages of this variation.
1.03 Observe and discuss how behaviors and body structure help animals survive in a particular habitat.
1.04 Explain and discuss how humans and other animals can adapt their behavior to live in changing habitats.
1.05 Recognize that humans can understand themselves better by learning about other animals.
2.01 Describe and evaluate the properties of several minerals.
2.02 Recognize that minerals have a definite chemical composition and structure, resulting in specific physical properties including Hardness, Streak Color, Luster, Magnetism.
2.03 Explain how rocks are composed of minerals.
2.04 Show that different rocks have different properties.
2.05 Discuss and communicate the uses or rocks and minerals.
2.06 Classify rocks and rock-forming minerals using student-made rules.
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