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Unit Plan 20 (Grade 4 Science): Adaptations & Behaviors

Explain how structural and behavioral adaptations help plants and animals survive, grow, and reproduce in specific habitats using evidence and real-world examples.

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Unit Plan 19 (Grade 4 Science): Plant & Animal Structures

Identify internal and external plant and animal structures and explain how each supports survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction using evidence and models.

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Unit Plan 18 (Grade 4 Science): Waves — Quarter Synthesis

Explain wave patterns, how waves cause motion, and how light and sound signals transfer information through a hands-on engineering design challenge.

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Unit Plan 17 (Grade 4 Science): Waves & Energy Review

Interpret wave diagrams and connect waves to energy transfer, motion, and information signals through hands-on investigations and concept mapping in Grade 4 science.

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Unit Plan 16 (Grade 4 Science): Designing Signal Devices

Build and improve simple devices that send coded messages with light, sound, or motion—test reliability, reduce errors, and choose the best design.

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Unit Plan 15 (Grade 4 Science): Signal Reliability

Compare analog vs. digital information transfer as students test light and sound signals, collect data on noise and errors, and choose the most reliable system.

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Unit Plan 14 (Grade 4 Science): Information Transfer Basics

Grade 4 unit where students design, test, and compare light and sound signal codes that use clear patterns to transfer information quickly and reliably.

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Unit Plan 13 (Grade 4 Science): Light, Reflection & Refraction

Grade 4 unit where students model how light travels, reflects, and refracts through materials, and explore how light energy can cause changes or motion.

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Unit Plan 12 (Grade 4 Science): Sound & Vibrations

Grade 4 unit where students explore how vibrations create sound, model waves with amplitude and wavelength, and show how sound waves cause objects to move.

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Unit Plan 11 (Grade 4 Science): Waves Cause Motion

Grade 4 science unit where students model water, rope, and sound waves to observe energy transfer and show how waves cause objects to move through motion and vibration.

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Unit Plan 10 (Grade 4 Science): Wave Patterns

Grade 4 unit modeling waves using amplitude and wavelength—students compare wave patterns with hands-on models, measurements, and labeled diagrams.

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Unit Plan 9 (Grade 4 Science): Energy — Quarter Synthesis

Grade 4 synthesis unit where students connect speed, collisions, and energy transfer across systems—designing and improving devices that use and convert energy effectively.

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Unit Plan 8 (Grade 4 Science): Energy Conversions

Grade 4 engineering unit where students design and test devices that convert energy forms—like electrical to light or motion to sound—using fair tests and improvements.

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Unit Plan 7 (Grade 4 Science): Designing Collision Devices

Grade 4 engineering design unit where students build and test collision-reduction devices—using criteria, constraints, and evidence to protect objects during impact.

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Unit Plan 6 (Grade 4 Science): Collisions & Energy Changes

Grade 4 collisions unit where students ask questions, predict outcomes, and observe how changing speed or mass transfers and changes energy when objects collide.

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Unit Plan 5 (Grade 4 Science): Electric Energy Flow

Grade 4 unit where students build simple circuits to observe electric currents transferring energy—lighting bulbs, spinning motors, and sounding buzzers.

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Unit Plan 4 (Grade 4 Science): Heat Transfer

Grade 4 heat transfer unit where students observe conduction and radiation—heat moving from warmer to cooler objects through contact or from a source at a distance.

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Unit Plan 3 (Grade 4 Science): Energy Transfer—Sound & Light

Grade 4 unit investigating how sound and light transfer energy, causing vibrations, movement, warmth, and visibility through hands-on observations and data.

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Unit Plan 2 (Grade 4 Science): Motion & Energy Basics

Grade 4 unit investigating motion: students measure distance and effects to show faster objects have more energy, using data tables and graphs as evidence.

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Unit Plan 1 (Grade 4 Science): Science Routines & Inquiry

Build Grade 4 science skills with lab safety, accurate measurement, organized data tables, and testable questions that prepare students for engineering design.

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Unit Plan 36 (Grade 5 Science): Cumulative Synthesis & Exhibition

Grade 5 cumulative science exhibition where students showcase mastery of matter, ecosystems, Earth systems, water, and space patterns through integrated models and data.

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Unit Plan 35 (Grade 5 Science): Space & Earth Systems Project

Grade 5 capstone where students model space patterns, Earth system interactions, and global water distribution in one integrated project explaining key connections.

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Unit Plan 34 (Grade 5 Science): Engineering Earth Solutions

Students use the engineering design process to solve real environmental challenges—defining problems, building prototypes, testing, and improving solutions that protect Earth’s resources.

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Unit Plan 33 (Grade 5 Science): Sustainability & Conservation

Students evaluate sustainable daily habits—reducing waste, saving energy, and conserving water—to protect air, land, and water with realistic action plans.

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Unit Plan 32 (Grade 5 Science): Human Use of Earth’s Resources

Students obtain and combine information from multiple sources to show how communities use science ideas to protect air, water, and land—then plan real actions.