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Activities to Support:
Solid as a Rock
Rocks & Soil Lesson Plan BBC
How the Earth Works by, Michelle OBrien (See AnnMarie if you need to view this book, everyone should
have a copy)
4- ESS2 Earths Systems: Processes that Shape the Earth
4 ESS2 1 How do forces shape Earth? (Constructive/ Destructive)
Make observations and collect data to provide evidence that rocks, soils, and sediments are broken into
smaller pieces through mechanical (physical) weathering and moved around through erosion by water,
ice, wind, and vegetation.
Understand that water ice, wind, living organisms and gravity break rocks, soils, and
sediments into smaller particles (weathering) and move them around (erosion).
Look at examples of different landforms and how weathering shapes the land.
(Chapter 9 - Lesson 1 omit chemical weathering)
Acknowledge that mechanical weathering can include frost wedging, abrasion, and tree root
wedging.
Look at examples of how weathered materials move and what landforms may be constructed
Physical Science
4-PS3 Energy
4-PS3-1 How does energy move from place to place?
Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
The faster a given object is moving the more energy it possesses.
Energy can be moved from place to place by moving objects or through heat, sound, light, or
electric currents.
4-PS3-2-3 When is energy present? What happens when objects collide? What evidence can we
gather to explain that energy is transferred?
Make observations to show that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and
electric currents. Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when
objects collide.
When is energy present?
light, or heat.
An object can be seen when light reflected from its surface enters the eye
Pupil functions in relation to light
Activities to support:
Seeing is Believing
How We See Lesson Plan BBC
How We See Video Clip BBC
*Assessment boundary: Assessment does not include knowledge of specific colors reflected and seen,
cellular mechanisms of vision, or how the retina works.
4-PS4-3 How is technology used to transfer information?
Develop ways to transfer information through encoding, sending, receiving, and decoding a pattern.
Digitized information can be transmitted over long distances without significant degradation.
High tech devices such as, computers or cell phones can receive and decode informationconvert it from digitized form to voice- and vice versa.
Examples of solutions could include: drums sending coded information through sound
waves, using a grid of 1s and 0s representing black and white to send information about a picture,
and using morse code to send text.
Activities to support:
Sending Pictures with Waves
Pixel Coding Activity
*Animal sounds MOS resources show how animals communicate via sound waves
Life Science