Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.B.1.1.3
Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.B.1.1.3
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 are the four basic needs of plants and animals?
- Compare and contrast the way you get food and water to the way a tiger gets food and water.
- Write a paragraph to explain how plants get food and water.
- Your community plans to destroy a forest to build a shopping mall. Write a letter to the state representative asking them to reconsider building the mall. Use at least 3 facts to explain how the construction would affect the plants and animals that live in the forest.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Food, water, air, and space
- Similarities include, but are not limited to:
- Tigers and some humans hunt their food.
- Tigers and humans eat and drink through their mouth.
Differences include, but are not limited to:
- Humans go to the grocery store.
- Humans can go to restaurants.
- Humans store food in refrigerators or pantries.
- Tigers drink out of lakes or streams.
- Acceptable responses might include, but are not limited to:
- Plants use their roots to get food and water
- Roots absorb nutrients from the soil
- Roots absorb water from the soil
- The plant uses its transportation system to deliver the nutrients and water to different parts of the plant.
- Student letter should include facts about habitat depletion, food scarcity, and pollution.
Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Loss of habitat
- Forced migration
- Deforestation
- Increased land pollution
- Increased litter
- Increased noise pollution
- Climate change
