Indiana State Standards for Science: Grade 4

IN.4.1. The Nature of Science and Technology: Students, working collaboratively, carry out investigations. They observe and make accurate measurements, increase their use of tools and instruments, record data in journals, and communicate results through chart, graph, written, and verbal forms.

4.1.1. The Scientific View of the World: Observe and describe that scientific investigations generally work the same way in different places. 32
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4.1.2. Scientific Inquiry: Recognize and describe that results of scientific investigations are seldom exactly the same. If differences occur, such as a large variation in the measurement of plant growth, propose reasons for why these differences exist, using recorded information about investigations. 32
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4.1.3. The Scientific Enterprise: Explain that clear communication is an essential part of doing science since it enables scientists to inform others about their work, to expose their ideas to evaluation by other scientists, and to allow scientists to stay informed about scientific discoveries around the world. 32
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4.1.4. The Scientific Enterprise: Describe how people all over the world have taken part in scientific investigation for many centuries. 100
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4.1.5. Technology and Science: Demonstrate how measuring instruments, such as microscopes, telescopes, and cameras, can be used to gather accurate information for making scientific comparisons of objects and events. Note that measuring instruments, such as rulers, can also be used for designing and constructing things that will work properly. 9
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4.1.6. Technology and Science: Explain that even a good design may fail even though steps are taken ahead of time to reduce the likelihood of failure. 32
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4.1.7. Technology and Science: Discuss and give examples of how technology, such as computers and medicines, has improved the lives of many people, although the benefits are not equally available to all. 20
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4.1.8. Technology and Science: Recognize and explain that any invention may lead to other inventions. 7
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4.1.9. Technology and Science: Explain how some products and materials are easier to recycle than others. 17
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IN.4.2. Scientific Thinking: Students use a variety of skills and techniques when attempting to answer questions and solve problems. They describe their observations accurately and clearly, using numbers, words, and sketches, and are able to communicate their thinking to others. They compare, explain, and justify both information and numerical functions.

4.2.1. Computation and Estimation: Judge whether measurements and computations of quantities, such as length, area, volume, weight, or time, are reasonable. 4
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4.2.2. Computation and Estimation: State the purpose, orally or in writing, of each step in a computation. 9
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4.2.3. Manipulation and Observation: Make simple and safe electrical connections with various plugs, sockets, and terminals. 9
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4.2.4. Communication Skills: Use numerical data to describe and compare objects and events. 32
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4.2.5. Communication Skills: Write descriptions of investigations, using observations and other evidence as support for explanations. 32
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4.2.6. Critical Response Skills: Support statements with facts found in print and electronic media, identify the sources used, and expect others to do the same. 32
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4.2.7. Critical Response Skills: Identify better reasons for believing something than 'Everybody knows that ...' or 'I just know' and discount such reasons when given by others. 32
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IN.4.3. The Physical Setting: Students continue to investigate changes of the Earth and sky and begin to understand the composition and size of the universe. They explore, describe, and classify materials, motion, and energy.

4.3.1. The Universe: Observe and report that the moon can be seen sometimes at night and sometimes during the day. 21
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4.3.2. The Earth and the Processes That Shape It: Begin to investigate and explain that air is a substance that surrounds us, takes up space, and whose movements we feel as wind. 14
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4.3.3. The Earth and the Processes That Shape It: Identify salt as the major difference between fresh and ocean waters. 29
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4.3.4. The Earth and the Processes That Shape It: Describe some of the effects of oceans on climate. 10
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4.3.5. The Earth and the Processes That Shape It: Describe how waves, wind, water, and ice, such as glaciers, shape and reshape the Earth's land surface by eroding of rock and soil in some areas and depositing them in other areas. 13
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4.3.6. The Earth and the Processes That Shape It: Recognize and describe that rock is composed of different combinations of minerals. 19
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4.3.7. The Earth and the Processes That Shape It: Explain that smaller rocks come from the breakage and weathering of bedrock and larger rocks and that soil is made partly from weathered rock, partly from plant remains, and also contains many living organisms. 19
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4.3.8. The Earth and the Processes That Shape It: Explain that the rotation of the Earth on its axis every 24 hours produces the night-and-day cycle. 23
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4.3.9. The Earth and the Processes That Shape It: Draw or correctly select drawings of shadows and their direction and length at different times of day. 8
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4.3.10. Matter and Energy: Demonstrate that the mass of a whole object is always the same as the sum of the masses of its parts. 23
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4.3.11. Matter and Energy: Investigate and observe and explain that things that give off light often also give off heat. 9
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4.3.12. Matter and Energy: Investigate, observe, and explain that heat is produced when one object rubs against another, such as one's hands rubbing together. 6
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4.3.13. Matter and Energy: Observe and describe that things that give off heat, such as people, animals, and the sun. 65
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4.3.14. Matter and Energy: Explain that energy in fossil fuels comes from plants that grew long ago. 5
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4.3.15. Forces of Nature: Demonstrate that without touching them, a magnet pulls all things made of iron and either pushes or pulls other magnets. 4
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4.3.16. Forces of Nature: Investigate and describe that without touching them, material that has been electrically charged pulls all other materials and may either push or pull other charged material. 6
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IN.4.4. The Living Environment: Students learn about an increasing variety of organisms (familiar, exotic, fossil, and microscopic). They use appropriate tools in identifying similarities and differences among them. They explore how organisms satisfy their needs in their environments.

4.4.1. Diversity of Life: Investigate, such as by using microscopes, to see that living things are made mostly of cells. 37
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4.4.2. Interdependence of Life and Evolution: Investigate, observe, and describe that insects and various other organisms depend on dead plant and animal material for food. 18
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4.4.3. Interdependence of Life and Evolution: Observe and describe that organisms interact with one another in various ways, such as providing food, pollination, and seed dispersal. 112
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4.4.4. Interdependence of Life and Evolution: Observe and describe that some source of energy is needed for all organisms to stay alive and grow. 131
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4.4.5. Interdependence of Life and Evolution: Observe and explain that most plants produce far more seeds than those that actually grow into new plants. 14
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4.4.6. Interdependence of Life and Evolution: Explain how in all environments, organisms are growing, dying, and decaying, and new organisms are being produced by the old ones. 150
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4.4.7. Human Identity: Describe that human beings have made tools and machines, such as x-rays, microscopes, and computers, to sense and do things that they could not otherwise sense or do at all, or as quickly, or as well. 7
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4.4.8. Human Identity: Know and explain that artifacts and preserved remains provide some evidence of the physical characteristics and possible behavior of human beings who lived a very long time ago. 2
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4.4.9. Human Identity: Explain that food provides energy and materials for growth and repair of body parts. Recognize that vitamins and minerals, present in small amounts in foods, are essential to keep everything working well. Further understand that as people grow up, the amounts and kinds of food and exercise needed by the body may change. 45
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4.4.10. Human Identity: Explain that if germs are able to get inside the body, they may keep it from working properly. Understand that for defense against germs, the human body has tears, saliva, skin, some blood cells, and stomach secretions. Also note that a healthy body can fight most germs that invade it. Recognize, however, that there are some germs that interfere with the body's defenses. 37
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4.4.11. Human Identity: Explain that there are some diseases that human beings can only catch once. Explain that there are many diseases that can be prevented by vaccinations, so that people do not catch them even once. 10
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IN.4.5. The Mathematical World: Students apply mathematics in scientific contexts. Their geometric descriptions of objects are comprehensive. They realize that graphing demonstrates specific connections between data. They identify questions that can be answered by data distribution.

4.5.1. Numbers: Explain that the meaning of numerals in many-digit numbers depends on their positions. 11
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4.5.2. Numbers: Explain that in some situations, '0' means none of something, but in others it may be just the label of some point on a scale. 10
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4.5.3. Shapes and Symbolic Relationships: Illustrate how length can be thought of as unit lengths joined together, area as a collection of unit squares, and volume as a set of unit cubes. 28
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4.5.4. Shapes and Symbolic Relationships: Demonstrate how graphical displays of numbers may make it possible to spot patterns that are not otherwise obvious, such as comparative size and trends. 12
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4.5.5. Reasoning and Uncertainty: Explain how reasoning can be distorted by strong feelings. 32
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IN.4.6. Common Themes: Students work with an increasing variety of systems and begin to modify parts in systems and models and notice the changes that result. They question why change occurs.

4.6.1. Systems: Demonstrate that in an object consisting of many parts, the parts usually influence or interact with one another. 103
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4.6.2. Systems: Show that something may not work as well, or at all, if a part of it is missing, broken, worn out, mismatched, or incorrectly connected. 103
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4.6.3. Models and Scale: Recognize that and describe how changes made to a model can help predict how the real thing can be altered. 48
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4.6.4. Constancy and Change: Observe and describe that some features of things may stay the same even when other features change. 32
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