Voyages in Fourth Grade Science - Teacher's Edition

Voyages in Fourth Grade Science - Teacher's Edition: 862 pages. Through real world application, Voyages in Fourth Grade Science explores matter and energy; the role of different organisms; the identification and comparison of common objects in the sky; and the history of the earth through the study of fossils. 180 Lessons.

SAMPLE TABLE OF CONTENTS (PARTIAL):

Lesson 1
What are the parts of an Experiment?
Objectives: Student will look at the form for experiments and recognize them.
Lesson 2
What do we call “things” around us?
Objective: Students will observe things they live with as matter. They will classify and
identify these things.
Lesson 3
Properties of Matter
Objective: Student will learn the ways to identify matter via their properties.
Lesson 4
What is MASS?
Objective: Student will learn what mass means when it is used to define matter in
science.
Lesson 5
The States of Matter
Objective: Students will learn the three states of matter.
Lesson 6
Talking Matter
Objective: Student will read about matter and its states as a review.
Lesson 7
What happens to matter?
Objectives: Critical thinking about what happens to matter.
Lesson 8
Float Away
Objectives: Students will read about density and buoyancy of matter.
Lesson 9
Take another look at Properties
Objective: Students will classify matters in preparation to learning about elements.
Lesson 10
Elements . . . say what?
Objective: Students will consider elements found on earth; what an element is; matter
is made of tiny particles that can be classified, mixed, and combined.
Lesson 11
Elements mixed . . .
Objective: Students will learn about how elements can be mixed but keep their
properties.
Lesson 12
Changing elements into . . .
Objective: Students would look at how elements are used in compounds or mixtures.
Lesson 13
A Scientist
Objective: Students will read information about a scientist.
Lesson 14
The “. . . ology” of it!
Objective: To introduce the students to the English names for field of study in science
and word parts that mean different kinds of science study.
Lesson 15
Physical Changes
Objective: Students will discover how physical change does not change matter.
Lesson 16
What are the ways matter exists?
Objective: Students will review the way matter exist in the world.
Lesson 17
Review . . . matter is
Objective: Students will use their knowledge of matter with a cloze article.
Lesson 18
Physical Change to matter
Objective: Students will observe how matter physically changes states.
Lesson 19
Is there another way to change matter?
Objective: Students will do an experiment to see the affect of a chemical change.
Lesson 20
Chemical Change
Objective: Students will learn the term chemical change and what it includes.
Lesson 21
Energy…where does it come from?
Objective: Students learn different forms of energy…motion