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OKCPS Elementary Science Page Unit: Soil, Rocks, and Landforms (FOSS) FOURTH GRADE

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CURRICULUM MAP INVESTIGATION 1: Soils and Weathering Focus Questions

Content/DCI Skills/SEP Assessments Strategies and Resources Oklahoma Academic Standards

Part-1: What is soil?

Rainfall helps to shape the land and affects the types of living things found in a region. Water, ice, wind, living organisms, and gravity breaks rocks, soils and sediments into smaller particles and move them around.

Students will ask questions, develop and use models, planning and carrying out investigations, analyzing and interpreting data, and constructing explanations for data.

S-1, Part 1:Survey, Science notebook entry, response sheet, performance assessment, I-Check

FOSSweb online: Teacher master No.1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 Science notebook master printable No 1-7

Assessment master 1, 2 and 6. Science resource book list, interactive white board, streaming videos.

ELA connection: R1 1, R1 2, R1 4, R1 6, R1 7, R1 8, W5, W8, SL-1, SL-4, L-4 See page 100.

ESS2-1

Part-2 What causes big rocks to break down into smaller rocks

S-1, Part 2: Science notebook entry, ongoing performance assessment, and response sheet I-check 2

Part-3 How are rocks affected by acid rain?

S-1,Part 3: Science notebook entry, response sheet, performance assessment and I-check 3

Part-4 What’s in our schoolyard soils?

s-1 Part four Response sheet, science notebook entry, performance assessment, posttest.

Vocabulary: abrasion, acid rain, basalt, calcite, chemical reaction, chemical weathering, clay, conglomerate, earth material, expand, freeze, granite, gravel, humus, limestone, marble, model, Pebble, physical weathering, rock, sand, sandstone, silt, soil, system, weathering


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INVESTIGATION 2: Landforms Focus Questions Content/DCI Skills/SEP Assessments Strategies and

Resources Oklahoma Academic Standards

S2-1 How do weathered rock pieces move from one place to another

Local, regional and global patterns of rock formations reveal changes over time due to earth’s forces suck as earthquakes. The presence and location of certain fossil types indicate the order in which rock layers were formed. Rainfall helps to shape the land and affects the types of living things found in a region. Water, ice, wind, living organisms and gravity break rocks, soils and sediments into smaller particles and move them around.

Students will ask questions, develop and use models, planning and carrying out investigations, analyzing and interpreting data, and constructing explanations for data. .

Part 1: Science notebook entry

Foss online: Teacher master 8-12

Science notebook master printable 8-14

Science resource book list, interactive white board, focus questions, streaming videos

ELA connection details page R1 1, R1 2, R1 3, R1 6, R1 7, SL 1, SL 5. Page 1990 for details.

ESS1-1 ESS2-1

S2-2 How does slope affect erosion and deposition. How do floods affect erosion and deposition?

Part 2: performance assessment

S2-3 Where are erosion and deposition happening in our schoolyard?

Part 3: Response sheet

S2-4 How do fossils get in rocks and what do they tell us about the past?

Part 4: science notebook entry and I-check 2.

Vocabulary: Carnivore, cast, conclusion, deposition, digestive system, erosion, evidence, flood, fossil, fossil record, fracture, geologist, glacier, herbivore, lava, mold, organism, paleontologist, petrified wood, predator, restoration, sediment, sedimentary rock, transport, volcano


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INVESTIGATION 3: Mapping Earth’s Surface Focus Questions Content/DCI Skills/SEP Assessments Strategies and

Resources Oklahoma Academic Standards

S3 Part 1: How can we represent the different elevations of landforms?

The history of planet earth. Local, regional and global patterns of rock formations reveal changes over time due to earth’s forces such as earthquakes. The presence and location of certain fossil types indicate the order in which rock layers were formed. Plate tectonics and large-scale system interactions: The location of mountain ranges, deep ocean trenches, ocean floor structures, earthquakes, and volcanoes occur in patterns. Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur in bands that are often along the boundaries between continents and oceans. Major mountain chains form inside continents or near their edges. Maps can help locate the different land and water features of earth. Natural hazards: A variety of hazards result from natural processes. Humans can not eliminate the hazards but can take steps to reduce their impact. Developing possible solutions. At whatever stage communicating with peers about proposed solutions is an important part of the design process and shared ideas can lead to improved designs.

Students will ask questions, develop and use models, planning and carrying out investigations, analyzing and interpreting data, and constructing explanations for data.

S-3, Part 1: Science notebook entry.

Foss online: Teacher master 13-17

Science notebook master printable 15-17.


ELA connection: R1 2, R1 3,R1 7,, , W 8, SL 4., details page 246.

ESS2-2 ESS3-2

S3-2: How can we draw the profile of a mountain from a topographical map?

S-3, Part 2: Response sheet

S3-3: How can scientists and engineers help reduce the impacts that events like volcanic eruptions might have on people?

S-3,Part 3 Performance assessment Sheet

S3-4: What events can change earth’s surface quickly?

S3 Part 4: Science notebook entry, I-check #3. See page 199.

Vocabulary: contour interval, contour line, crust, earthquake, elevation, landslide, lava, magma, mantle, profile, satellite cone, sea level, topographic map, volcano


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Unit: Soils, Rocks and Landforms

INVESTIGATION 4: Natural Resources

Focus Questions Content/DCI Skills/SEP Assessments Strategies and Resources Oklahoma Academic Standards

S4 Part 1: What are natural resources and what is important to know about them?

Energy and fuels that humans use are derived from natural sources, and their use affects the environment in multiple ways. Some resources are renewable over time, and others are not.

Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information.

S-4, Part 1: Response sheet

Foss online: Teacher master 22,23, and 24,

Science notebook master printable 18,


ELA connection: R1 4, R1 7,W 4 L4, details page 268.

ESS3-1

S4 Part 2: How are natural resources used to make concrete?

S-4, Part 2: Science notebook entry.

S4 Part 3: How do people use natural resources to make or build things?

S-4,Part 3: Performance assessment Posttest. See page 253.

Vocabulary: concrete, core, geoscientist, igneous rock, magma, mantle, metamorphic rock, natural resource, Portland cement

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