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.
In this activity, students observe how rock properties change from rock type to rock type due to different processes. Students will diagram the rock cycle and label the stresses that cause change between each rock type.
This resource website provides background content information and resources that are helpful to teachers when planning instruction about minerals, rocks, and the rock cycle.
In this activity, students use chocolate to create models of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks.
Students will identify properties that can be used to classify rocks by observing and studying them. Students will work in groups of 4-6 at a station which includes fifteen rocks for classification, hand lenses, and writing utensils.A student task card and a rubric are included with this activity.
In this introductory lesson, students observe and compare rocks. A blackline master is included for students to show what they know about rocks.
Students will be introduced to the rock cycle by scraping crayons to create small particles and then press and/or heat the particles to simulate rock formation processes.
In this activity, students play a simple game to review the three basic types of rocks and the characteristics of each.
In this lesson, students complete a series of activities in order to learn more about rocks and their characteristics.
Students investigate how to identify rocks by physical characteristics and group them into sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic classifications. A printable rock identification sheet with color photographs is included.
In this lesson, students are presented with fossils and other earth materials and given clues as to their origin. After identifying the fossils and materials, they will form a hypothesis as to how they were formed and what is was before preservation.
Students can read short articles about rock types, the rock cycle, and identifying rocks. Students can collect rocks in a virtual rock collection and learn about each one. A short quiz is provided at the end for students to test their own knowledge.
Students learn that rocks are transformed through the rock cycle.
Through this activity students will understand how metamorphic rocks are formed through heat and pressure. Teachers will model this process by making pancakes on a hot griddle. Additional ingredients (acting as other rock types) can be added.
Through playing the Rock Cycle Game students will gain an understanding of the cycles that form metamorphic, sedimentary and igneous rocks.
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.
Student classify a variety of rocks by their characteristics and composition.