Grade 4 Science North Dakota standards Standards

Access: Effective search strategies can locate information for intellectual or creative pursuits.

Use multiple teacher-selected online resources to locate information.

Create: It is important to both consume and produce information to be digitally literate.

Continued growth.

Data Creation & Analysis: Data can be collected, used, and presented with computing devices or digital tools.

Organize and present collected data visually to highlight comparisons.

Development & Design: Design processes to create new, useful, and imaginative solutions to problems.

Independently and collaboratively create programs that use sequencing, loops, and conditionals.

Digital Identity: Responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world.

Explain the importance of your digital identity.

Evaluate: Information sources can be evaluated for accuracy, currency, appropriateness, and purpose.

With guidance, use a strategy to evaluate information for research purposes.

Hardware & Software: Devices, hardware, and software work together as a system to accomplish tasks.

Explain the difference between hardware and software.

Continued growth.

Continued growth.

Impacts of Computing: Past, present, and possible future impact of technology on society.

Give examples of technologies that influence society today.

Intellectual Property: Respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.

Demonstrate an understanding of copyright and fair use.

With guidance, create a citation.

With guidance, use strategies to avoid piracy and plagiarism.

Networks & Internet: Networks link computers and devices locally and around the world allowing people to access and communicate information.

Recognize that computing devices can be connected in a variety of ways to share information.

Problem Solving & Algorithms: Strategies for understanding and solving problems.

Decompose (break down) a large task into smaller, manageable subtasks.

Debug a program that includes sequencing or loops.

Identify multiple solutions to a task.

Responsible Use: Respect and dignity in virtual communities.

Discuss basic issues related to the appropriate use of technology and information, and the consequences of inappropriate use.

Identify strategies for dealing responsibly with cyberbullying and reporting inappropriate behavior.

Continued growth.

Comply with Acceptable Use Policies.

Safety & Ethics: There are both positive and negative impacts in social and ethical behaviors for using technology.

Identify and explain issues related to responsible use of technology and information and describe personal consequences of inappropriate use. (CYSEC)

Create secure authentication to insure privacy. (CYSEC)

Continued growth.

Recognize when it is safe to share private information online. (CYSEC)

Social Interactions: Technology facilitates collaboration with others.

With guidance, use collaborative technology to interpret diverse perspectives.

Troubleshooting: Strategies for solving technology system problems.

Continued growth.

Earth & Space Science

Earth's Place in the Universe

Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

Engineering & Technology

Earth and Human Activity

Earth's Systems

From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

Energy

Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.

Make observations and metric measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering and the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.

Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth's features.

Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.

Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Construct an argument that plants, and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Form an explanation 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.

Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.

Using the engineering design process build a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.

Construct a code to convey information by researching past and present methods of transmitting information.