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 Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 22 (Grade 4 Social Studies): How a Bill Becomes a Law

Students simulate how a bill becomes a law at the state level, exploring each step—from idea to vote to governor’s decision—and learning how the legislative process supports fairness, safety, and the common good using evidence and simple citations.

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Unit Plan 21 (Grade 4 Social Studies): State and Local Leaders

Students learn the roles of state and local leaders—governors, mayors, and councils—and match them to key public services while evaluating sources for credibility, relevance, fact vs opinion, and perspective.

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Unit Plan 20 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Branches of Government

Students learn how state government works by exploring the roles of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches and using multiple sources to understand how they create laws, enforce them, and provide public services.

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Unit Plan 19 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Rules, Laws, and Fairness

Students explore how rules and laws promote fairness, safety, order, and the common good, asking their own questions and using due process to understand and improve real-life school and community rules.

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Unit Plan 18 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Midyear Project — From First Peoples to Statehood

Students create a visual timeline or digital museum showing the state’s story from First Peoples to statehood, using primary/secondary sources to explain key events, perspectives, and patterns of continuity and change.

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Unit Plan 17 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Our Path to Statehood

Students trace key turning points—from Indigenous homelands to settlement, territory, and statehood—using maps, timelines, and sources to understand how exploration, land use, and government changed over time.

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Unit Plan 16 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Sources Tell Our State’s Story

Students investigate a guiding historical question using primary and secondary sources, analyzing relevance, credibility, and perspective to separate fact from opinion and write a clear, evidence-based explanation of who/what/where/when/why.

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Unit Plan 15 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Timelines of Change

Students build and interpret a state history timeline—from longstanding Indigenous presence to statehood—using chronological vocabulary, intervals, and multiple sources to understand how communities and governments changed over time.

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Unit Plan 14 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Building Communities

Students analyze how natural features like rivers and landforms influenced early settlements and how human-made features—roads, bridges, canals, and dams—transformed land use, trade, and community growth across the region.

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Unit Plan 13 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Trade and Exchange in the Early State

Students explore early trade between Indigenous nations and newcomers, mapping trading locations, identifying exchanged goods, and using simple supply-and-demand ideas to explain interdependence, cooperation, and conflict in the region’s early history.

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Unit Plan 12 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Explorers and Early Contacts

Students trace explorers’ routes, motives, and early encounters with Indigenous peoples using maps and multiple sources, identifying clear cause-and-effect patterns that shaped early exploration and settlement in the region.

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Unit Plan 11 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Cultural Regions and Adaptations

Students explore how Indigenous nations adapted tools, clothing, and seasonal movement to their environments across cultural regions, highlighting stewardship practices and showing how these traditions continue and change today.

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Unit Plan 10 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Life Before Settlement

Students explore Indigenous nations of their region—mapping homelands, connecting environment to food and housing, and recognizing living cultures that show both continuity and change.

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Unit Plan 9 (Grade 4 Social Studies): State Geography Project

Students create a State Geography Map Book using multiple sources, clear maps, and evidence-based explanations to show regions, features, resources, and stewardship ideas.

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Unit Plan 8 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Caring for Our Environment

Students investigate real examples of conservation, protection, and restoration in our state and create their own evidence-based stewardship proposal, learning how to analyze human–environment interaction and communicate informed actions clearly.

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Unit Plan 7 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Resources and Regions

Students explore how landforms and climate shape natural resources and regional industries, identifying natural, human, and capital resources while weighing benefits, costs, and environmental trade-offs.

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Unit Plan 6 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Map Skills and Direction

Students apply cardinal/intermediate directions and use map scales to estimate distance and plan simple routes, integrating titles, legends, compass roses, grids, and multiple sources to answer geographic questions with accuracy and clarity.

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Unit Plan 5 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Natural and Human-Made Features

Students compare natural and human-made features—like mountains, rivers, dams, bridges, and highways—and explain their purposes, impacts, and stewardship needs through hands-on mapping and human–environment interaction activities.

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Unit Plan 4 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Weather and Climate Across Regions

Students investigate how weather and climate differ across regions and how people adapt, modify, and conserve resources in response to temperature, precipitation, and seasonal patterns.

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Unit Plan 3 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Landforms and Waterways

Students explore major landforms and waterways in their state and region, examining how these features shape settlement, jobs, and travel while learning how people adapt to, modify, and care for their environment through hands-on mapping and stewardship activities.

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Unit Plan 2 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Mapping Our State

Students learn to read and create detailed state maps using titles, legends, scales, grid coordinates, and directions, gathering information from multiple sources to locate cities, rivers, and borders accurately.

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Unit Plan 1 (Grade 4 Social Studies): Our State and Its Regions

Students explore their state’s physical and cultural regions and compare urban, suburban, and rural communities using maps, questions, and local examples to understand how geography shapes ways of life.

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Grade 4 Math Units

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

Show mastery across operations, place value, fractions, measurement, and geometry as students solve multi-step tasks, choose efficient strategies, model thinking clearly, and defend solutions with precise units and reasoning.

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Unit Plan 35 (Grade 4 Math): Data & Geometry—Plots and Properties

Create and interpret line plots with fractional measurements; use fraction operations to answer questions and connect data to shape properties, including parallel/perpendicular lines, angle types, and symmetry.

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Unit Plan 34 (Grade 4 Math): Geometry + Angles—Integrated Tasks

Draw and identify lines, rays, segments, and angle types; measure angles in degrees with a protractor; use angle addition and equations to find unknown angles in composed figures.