As students study electricity and circuits, they can build their Operation games. Made from a few household materials, a makey-makey kit and the Scratch website, students can create and play their Operation game.

This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 4th grade Science content.

Students will be given a Makey Makey kit, a Chromebook with the Scratch website and a choice of materials to create a circuit that will allow the students to play an in instrument.

This resource accompanies our Rethink 4th Grade Science course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning. 

In this lesson, students observe demonstrations and participate in hands-on activities that involve static electricity. Connections to everyday examples of static electricity and assessment ideas are included. Extension activities integrate Language Arts and family.

Students are introduced to the concept of electricity through hands-on investigation of how circuits work. Students will construct a simple circuit and record their experiences in their science journal. Note: Circuit kits (one per individual/group) will need to be prepared ahead of time. Kits are to include 1 C-cell battery, 2 insulated copper wires, 1 battery holder, 2 brass battery clips, 1 small flashlight bulb, and 1 socket.

In this activity students test a variety of liquids and solutions to see which conduct electricity. Note: This is designed for use in a science museum or education center and may need to be modified for classroom use.

In this lesson students will understand how charges attract and repel and can move between objects by charging a variety of objects and making observations about their interactions.

Using Makey Makey to build a circuit and learning about electricity as a form of energy to cause change.

In this lesson, students will investigate energy, electricity, and circuits by creating an emergency flashlight using common everyday materials. Then they will work collaboratively to design a model subdivision, creating a simple circuit to provide light to the "buildings" in their model.

Students explore electricity and the parts of a circuit by modeling, as a group, a "human" circuit.

In this activity, students will organize electricity-related vocabulary words into a web or cluster design.

Students will use basic materials (brass paper fasteners, paperclips, wire, cardboard and light bulb / battery setups to make a simple switch circuit.

In this activity, students build and experiment with electric circuits using easily available materials. Students are challenged to find three pathways that successfully complete the circuit, and three pathways that do not successfully complete the circuit. Students will sketch the pathways in their journals, and compare and contrast their drawings with peers.

This is an exploratory lesson in which students experiment with different arrangements of the wire, bulb, and battery to produce a lit bulb. Students will make close observations of the posiitioning of the materials and draw both successful and unsuccessful attempts.

In this design challenge activity, students design and build a circuit: an "electric highway" that connects a battery and buzzer at least three feet apart using four types of materials. This is a simple exploratory activity about electricity and conductivity.

Students will work in collaborative groups to combine simple materials to make a basic motor.

This resource is a compilation of text, videos, and other elements to create a scaffolded 5E learning experience for students. In this lesson, students explore electrical energy and circuits.

This resource is a compilation of text, videos, and other elements to create a scaffolded 5E learning experience for students. In this lesson, students investigate forms of energy.