Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.A.1.3.1
Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.A.1.3.1
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- What tool would you use to measure time?
- A student wants to know how far it is from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Austin, Texas. What metric unit is best to measure the distance between the two cities?
- What is mass?
- There are 40mL of water in a beaker. Mike let the water sit for a week. When he checked the beaker, the water level had dropped to 32mL. How much water evaporated?
- Find an object in your desk. Estimate its length in centimeters. Find its actual length using a ruler.
- Find an object in your desk. Estimate its mass in grams. Find its actual mass using a balance.
- Look at the table below. Predict how tall the plant will be on day 5.
|
Day |
Height of Plant |
|
1 |
1cm |
|
2 |
1 ½ cm |
|
3 |
2cm |
|
4 |
2 ½ cm |
|
5 |
|
- Compare mass and weight.
- Based on the graph below, estimate the speed of the car after 10 seconds.
- A student planted 5 tomato plants and observed them for 1 week. They each spent a different amount of time in the sun. She recorded the growth of each plant in the table below. What can you conclude about the growth of the plants?
|
Plant |
Amount of Sunlight |
Growth |
|
1 |
1 hour |
1cm |
|
2 |
5 hours |
3cm |
|
3 |
10 hours |
5cm |
|
4 |
15 hours |
10cm |
|
5 |
20 hours |
14cm |
- How are millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers related?
Answer Key/Rubric
- Answers include, but are not limited to: a timer, stopwatch, or clock
- Kilometers
- Mass is the amount of matter within an object.
- 8mL (40mL-32mL=8mL)
- Student is able to estimate the length of an object and correctly measure it in centimeters using a ruler. Their estimation should be reasonable to the exact measurement.
- Student is able to estimate the mass of an object and correctly measure it in grams using a balance. Their estimation should be reasonable to the exact measurement.
- 3cm (the height goes up ½ cm each day)
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Mass is a measurement of the amount of matter an object has
- Weight is the measurement of the pull of gravity on an object
- Mass will always stay the same
- Weight will change based on the amount of gravity
- 20 km/hr
- Student can explain how plants will grow more if it receives more sunlight during the week.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to
- All used to measure distance
- 10 millimeters in a centimeter
- 100 centimeters in a meter
- 1,000 meters in a kilometer
