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

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. 

Students will create a fictitious city that has experienced a natural disaster. Once their city is completed, students will create a vehicle to transport supplies to the people who need help.

In this activity, students learn about different types of water erosion and develop strategies to slow down erosion where man is involved.

In this activity, students learn about different types of wind and ice erosion and explain the difference between weathering and erosion.

In this lesson, students demonstrate how different valleys are formed by flowing water or ice. Students list the erosional processes that form valleys and identify the landform in photos or in nature.

In this lesson, students create pie-shaped landforms and understand how and where they form. Students will distinguish between alluvial fans and deltas by their depositional environments.

In this lesson students will describe how weathering and erosion change Earth's surface after observing the effects of erosion from wind and water on three types of ground: bare ground, ground with sparse vegetation, and ground covered with vegetation. Students will record their observations in their science journals and then participate in a discussion about the results of the activity. They will be assessed by a final written summary of the activity where they will cite the reasons they think understanding soil erosion is important. Note: Teachers will need to build the Erosion Chamber mentioned in the lesson ahead of time; directions for building are included.

In this short article, students read to learn the difference between quick changes to the Earth's surface such as avalanches, landslides and floods and slow changes to the Earth's surface such as weathering and eroding. Photographs and definitions of key vocabulary are included.

Students will measure the effects of erosion by shaking a box of Plaster of Paris "rocks", gravel, and sand. Students will record data on a test card and create a graph using it. Students will record observations by writing and sketching, draw conclusions and document results of their investigations. A rubric, recording sheet, and examples of student work are included with this activity.

In this lesson, students examine the effects of erosion based on changing slope. Students will also observe sand movement along the coast due to waves.

In this series of activities, students identify erosion problems at their school, and then investigate splash, wind, and water erosion through classroom activities. After researching erosion, students will work collaboratively to create proposed solutions to schoolyard erosion problems.

Through this series of simple activities, students will be able to identify the different types of erosion, the effect of ice on land, the effect of wind on land, and the effect of water on landforms.

This set of activities uses hands-on activities, group discussions, demonstrations, and science journaling to aid student understanding of erosion processes.

In this lesson students explore expository texts about natural disasters that focus on cause-and-effect relationships. As a class students record their understandings in a graphic organizer. Students then work in small groups and write paragraphs outlining the cause-and-effect relationships they have found.

In this lesson, students demonstrate and investigate how geologic forces of nature cause rapid changes in the Earth's surface by using a variety of models and information resources.Supplemental resources for this lesson can be found as separate entries in the collection. They are identified as "Forces of Nature: Inside and Out - Name of Resource."

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Forces of Nature: Inside and Out." In this activity, students build a model volcano and observe as it "erupts."

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Forces of Nature: Inside and Out." It provides a sample key for an activity that is part of the lesson. It provides examples to students of "thin" and "thick" questions.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Forces of Nature: Inside and Out." It is clip art that is to be used during the T-chart activity to differentiate between geological and meteorological forces of nature.