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