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 learn about the types and amounts of food that Arctic explorers eat in order to get the energy they need to complete an expedition. In an associated activity, students will collect food labels from the different foods they eat and analyze the labels to discuss the calorie and nutrient information for each one. In the culminating activity, they will plan an appropriate meal list for a seven-day Arctic expedition.

Students learn about fats and how excessive fat and calories in the diet can contribute to health problems. In an associated activity, students will plan a three-day backpacking trip to the Rocky Mountains based on their understanding of the need to balance supply of and demand for calories.

In this lesson, students will give examples of foods that provide energy and materials for the survival, growth, and repair of the body. They will create a meal plan by coding the Dash Robot to gather healthy foods for their plates. When they choose healthy foods, they also will be given an exercise to do during a 10-second Dash sound or light event they create. An optional addition is for students to push or launch the cards/balls/dice onto their My Plate diagram if those attachments are available.

This resource contains three parts to use with the fourth grade science molecular biology unit on classifying substances as food or non-food items based on their ability to provide energy and materials for survival, growth, and repair of the body.

This document is intended to be an activating activity for a study of food and nutrition in 4th grade science. This could be done at the beginning of the unit as a formative assessment to see that students know the difference between food and non-food. It could also be used after some information has been taught to have students classify based on whether the items provide energy for the body to survive, grow, and repair. The document is a Word document and can be used with a Smart Board to allow students to manipulate the pieces.

This document is intended to be an activating activity for a study of food and nutrition in 4th grade science. This could be done at the beginning of the unit as a formative assessment to see that students know the difference between food and non-food. It could also be used after some information has been taught to have students classify based on whether the items provide energy for the body to survive, grow, and repair. The document is a Word document and can be used with a Smart Board to allow students to manipulate the pieces.

This document is intended to be an activating activity for a study of food and nutrition in 4th grade science. This could be done at the beginning of the unit as a formative assessment to see that students know the difference between food and non-food. It could also be used after some information has been taught to have students classify based on whether the items provide energy for the body to survive, grow, and repair. There are two options for use:
1) A Word document and can be used with a Smart Board to allow students to manipulate the pieces.
2) A Google slide deck that offers both a text and picture option for the words used in the sort.

Looking for lichens is an activity that can be done almost anywhere. Students get to search for them in the playgrounds and schoolyards, and they can be used as an indicator of air quality.

Students explore ways in which food provides energy and materials for our bodies.

Students explore why the body needs food, and how it takes necessary nutrients as food passes through the digestive system.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 4th Grade Science. 

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 4th Grade Science.

In this lesson, 4th grade students will extend their understanding of the five food groups and bar graphs to create and answer questions about the data presented in the graph by creating a Makey Makey project.