Grade 4 Units

Browse Grade 4 unit plans in Science, Social Studies, Math, and Language Arts with standards-aligned lessons that build inquiry, literacy, and critical thinking.

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Grade 4 Science Units

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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Grade 4 Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 36 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Cumulative Synthesis & Exhibition

Showcase yearlong learning by curating maps, timelines, civic projects, and economic displays in a polished State Story Exhibition that highlights geography, history, government, and interdependence through clear, evidence-based explanations.

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Unit Plan 35 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Our State in the Nation

Explore how state government, public services, and trade connect our state to the nation, while students practice respectful civic participation through simple class decisions.

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Unit Plan 34 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Citizens Taking Action

Lead students in planning and completing a real-world citizenship project that promotes respect, inclusion, and digital responsibility, guiding them to identify a local need, take informed action, and share their impact through a clear, well-crafted communication product.

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Unit Plan 33 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Balancing Economy and Environment

Evaluate how natural resources support state industries and explore the benefits, costs, and sustainable practices that balance economic needs with environmental stewardship, guiding students to create evidence-based proposals for real-world action.

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Unit Plan 32 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Resources and Industries

Analyze how natural, human, and capital resources—and the state’s landforms, waterways, and climate—shape where people live, work, and build industries, helping students connect geography to economic activity and understand the benefits and trade-offs of using local resources.

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Unit Plan 31 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Trade and Interdependence

Trace how a key state product is made and moved using natural, human, and capital resources, and see how highways, railroads, canals, dams, and ports connect our community to national and global trade, highlighting interdependence and the benefits and costs of resource use.

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Unit Plan 30 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Why People Work

Explore why people work and how earning, saving, spending, and budgeting support personal goals while influencing local businesses, jobs, and trade, helping students understand interdependence and simple supply-and-demand in the state economy.

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Unit Plan 29 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Producers and Consumers

Explore how local and state industries turn natural, human, and capital resources into the goods and services communities rely on, as students identify producers and consumers, trace production flows, and weigh simple benefits and environmental trade-offs.

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Unit Plan 28 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Scarcity and Choice

Limited resources and opportunity cost come to life as students analyze real community choices using maps, charts, and texts, then justify the best option in a “Scarcity & Choice” case study.

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Unit Plan 27 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Midyear Simulation — Our Capitol in Action

Students run a mock legislative session to propose, debate, amend, and vote on a class law—learning how rules, laws, roles in government, and evidence-based claims support fairness, safety, and the common good.

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Unit Plan 26 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Public Services and Taxes

Students learn how state and local governments fund and deliver public services, how taxes support the common good, and how goods, services, producers, and consumers interact in the local economy.

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Unit Plan 25 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Rights and Responsibilities

Students compare rights and responsibilities, explore how rules and due process support fairness and safety, and create a Class Bill of Rights & Responsibilities for responsible in-person and digital citizenship.

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Unit Plan 24 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Symbols and State Pride

Students explore state symbols and Indigenous homelands, interpreting how flags, mottos, and emblems reflect identity and values, then design a symbol that honors state pride and Indigenous history.

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Unit Plan 23 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Citizenship and Participation

Students practice real-world citizenship through voting, compromise, respectful discussion, and digital responsibility, using class elections and a shared charter to learn how participation and inclusion help groups make fair, community-minded decisions.