Science · Grade 4

Skills

• Plans a simple investigation to answer a question they posed themselves.
• Repeats a measurement instead of trusting a single reading.
• Draws a conclusion from their results, including "the result didn't show what I expected".
• Classifies a living thing using a branching key.
• Knows the major organ systems and what each does: digestion, circulation, breathing, skeleton and muscles, nerves.
• Knows the function of the heart, lungs, stomach, intestines, brain, kidneys and skin.
• Distinguishes a reversible change (melting, dissolving) from an irreversible one (burning, cooking, rusting).
• Separates a mixture by an appropriate method: sieving, filtering, evaporating, magnetism.
• Knows what dissolving is and what affects how fast it happens.
• Builds a simple electrical circuit with a cell, wires, a bulb and a switch, and fixes it when it fails.
• Knows which materials conduct electricity and which insulate.
• Names the main forms of energy and gives an example of each converting into another.
• Explains the Moon's phases, and knows the Moon orbits the Earth.
• Knows rocks and soil form and change, and what a fossil is.
• Knows what causes an eclipse, and never to look at the Sun directly.