Find and use probability to predict outcomes. Let them help. Involve your child in solving daily problems. Help your child understand what is being asked and develop a plan to solve it. In the fourth grade science program, students begin to focus upon analysis with units on bio-communities, electricity, chemistry, and energy transfer.
Students study pond water to observe the organisms present.
In the electricity unit, students undertake investigations that begin with static electricity and continue with series and parallel circuits, electromagnets, conductors and insulators, small motors and buzzers. Fourth graders also study the chemistry of common kitchen products to observe such things as states of matter, mixture solutions, acids, and bases. In the final unit, students undertake activities including solar energy and the transfer of energy between warm and cold water. Describe the properties and characteristics of matter. Use investigative techniques to identify and compare various mixtures.