This unit plan is for a 4th grade science class exploring the Earth. Students will learn about geologists, paleontologists, and archeologists by examining rocks, fossils, and building volcanoes. They will understand how fossils and rock formations provide evidence of changes over time and the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.
This unit plan is for a 4th grade science class exploring the Earth. Students will learn about geologists, paleontologists, and archeologists by examining rocks, fossils, and building volcanoes. They will understand how fossils and rock formations provide evidence of changes over time and the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.
This unit plan is for a 4th grade science class exploring the Earth. Students will learn about geologists, paleontologists, and archeologists by examining rocks, fossils, and building volcanoes. They will understand how fossils and rock formations provide evidence of changes over time and the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.
This unit plan is for a 4th grade science class exploring the Earth. Students will learn about geologists, paleontologists, and archeologists by examining rocks, fossils, and building volcanoes. They will understand how fossils and rock formations provide evidence of changes over time and the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.
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Grade or Level: 4th Grade Science
Exploring the Earth
Description of unit… This unit will allow students the opportunity to understand three different types of scientists. geologist, paleontologist, and archeologist. Students will learn about the Earth’s features, dinosaurs, fossils, climate, and the center of the Earth. Students will examine rocks, build volcanoes, and learn the vocabulary of each scientist.
STAGE 1- STANDARDS/GOALS 4 ESS1-1 -Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time (nextgenscience.org, 2024).
4 ESS2-1-Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation (nextgenscience.org, 2024).
4 ESS3-2-Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans (nextgenscience.org, 2024).
Goals- Students will explain verbally the differences between each scientist. Students will be able to explain the center of the Earth by using vocabulary words to explain each layer. Students will understand the difference between sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rock. Students will understand fossil formation and the difference between body and trace fossils.
Content Standard(s) 4.GLSSS- ALL NON-PRIORITY SKILLS SUPPORTING PROFICIENCY IN GRADE LEVEL SCIENCE (AMPLIFYSCIENCE, 2024).
Students will understand how to apply basic scientific principles from the scientific method to aid them in lessons about Earth science.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Content Standards Primary Expected Performances
4 ESS1-1 -Identify evidence from patterns in rock
formations and fossils in rock layers to support an Make observations of pictures with fossils. explanation for changes in a landscape over time (nextgenscience.org, 2024). Make observations of sample rock categories Sedimentary, Igneous, and metamorphic.
Write a hypothesis of what they think
happened to form the fossils.
4 ESS2-1-Make observations and/or Make observations of rocks and write
measurements to provide evidence of the effects of an explanation of what may have weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, happened to create that rock. wind, or vegetation (nextgenscience.org, 2024).
4 ESS3-2-Generate and compare multiple
solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth Conduct an experiment by building a volcano processes on humans (nextgenscience.org, 2024). and seeing what happens when an eruption occurs. Research volcano eruptions of the past. Write down results.
Enduring Understandings Essential Questions
Students will start to understand how the What can fossils and rocks tell us about the past effects our future and why it is past? important to study the Earth’s features.
Overarching Enduring Understandings:
Students will see the connection that weather plays in understanding our Earth and things from the past.
