Standards: Science
The science standards include both NGSS and Michigan Science Standards.
4-ESS1-1 MI
(0)
Education Level 4
Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support possible explanations of Michigan’s geological changes over time.
4-ESS2-1
(1)
Education Level 4
Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water ice wind or vegetation.
4-ESS2-2
(1)
Education Level 4
Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth's features.
4-ESS3-1
(1)
Education Level 4
Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.
4-ESS3-2
(3)
Education Level 4
Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.
4-ESS3-2 MI
(0)
Education Level 4
Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on Michigan’s people and places.
4-LS1-1
(1)
Education Level 4
Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival growth behavior and reproduction.
4-LS1-2
(1)
Education Level 4
Use a model to describe that animals' receive different types of information through their senses process the information in their brain and respond to the information in different ways.
4-PS3-1
(1)
Education Level 4
Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
4-PS3-2
(1)
Education Level 4
Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound light heat and electric currents.
4-PS3-3
(1)
Education Level 4
Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.