While watching the Water Cycle Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the process of the water cycle by listening to the repetitive lyrics loaded with key vocabulary.
The Matter Song teaches all about matter and the states of matter. With this states of matter song, students learn about solid, liquid, and gas, as well as the phases of matter, properties of matter, physical changes, chemical changes, and so much more. Matter has mass and takes up space.…
While watching the Planets Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the order of planets in our solar system as well as cool facts about each planet.
While listening the Scientific Method Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about seven steps of the scientific method while listening to a catchy song.
Using the Science Songs (MP3 Album), students learn about different science concepts while listening to these upbeat and catchy songs.
Using thisMoon Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the phases of the moon through catchy, interesting lyrics.
While watching the Weather Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about different types of weather conditions by listening to the repetitive lyrics loaded with key vocabulary.
While watching the Creation Song, students learn about the days of Creation perfect for Sunday school, kid's church, and Bible lessons for kids. Bring joy and understanding into your kid's church, Sunday school, and classroom with this song about the days of Creation. Your kids will love a new way…
Using this Animal Song (Animated Music Video), your students learn about different types of animals and their sounds by watching this fun, catchy video.
While Parts of the Body Song (MP3), students learn about the different parts of the body while listening to catchy lyrics.
Using the Going Green Song (Animated Music Video), students learn all about ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle and so much more through a catchy video!
While listening to the Seasons Song (MP3), students learn about the seasons of the year while listening to a catchy song.
While listening to the Senses Song (MP3), students learn the five senses and examples of how you use each sense daily.
This Fitness Songs (MP3 Album) provides you and your students with seven fitness songs to get your class moving and fit in a fun and musical way!
Using the Science Songs (Instrumental Karaoke Version), students learn different about different science concepts while listening to these upbeat and catchy songs.
While listening to the Planets Song (MP3), students learn about the order of planets in our solar system as well as cool facts about each planet.
While watching the Senses Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the five senses. The senses song teaches Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight, and Sound.
Using thisMoon Song (MP3), students learn about the phases of the moon through catchy, interesting lyrics.
Rocks, circuits, and how the world works
Fourth grade science is full of big, hands-on ideas. Kids study energy: how it moves as light, sound, heat and electricity, and how faster objects carry more of it. They explore Earth's surface, learning how weathering and erosion carve landforms and how rock layers and fossils tell Earth's history. They also look at how plant and animal structures help them survive. The click comes when kids see a canyon or a pile of sand and can explain the forces that made it.
Fourth graders are ready to think like scientists. These moves give them real questions to test.
Walk through one investigation together, out loud: question, hypothesis, test, observe, conclude. Then let groups run their own. Modeling the steps once makes every lab after it smoother.
Why it works: handing over the work step by step, from teacher to student, is one of the most widely used teaching frameworks (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withScientific Method WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Build a sand hill in a tray and pour water down it from a cup. Kids sketch before and after, then try again with rocks or plants on the hill. They see weathering and erosion happen in minutes instead of millions of years.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withWeathering WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Kids draw and label the layers of the Earth, then stack colored clay to build a model they can slice open. Matching the model to the diagram helps those vocabulary words stay put.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withLayers of the Earth Definition WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Fourth graders love a challenge. These ideas turn science into one.
WorksheetsBuild a simple circuit with a battery, wire and bulb. Can you make it light?
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WorksheetsSort rocks by color, texture and hardness, then guess what kind each one is.
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VideosLearn solids, liquids and gases with a catchy song, then find examples in the room.
Open Matter Song →Teacher favorites right now: Water Cycle Song (Animated Music Video), Matter Song and Planets Song (Animated Music Video).
Common 4th grade topics include energy and electricity, waves, light and sound, weathering and erosion, landforms, rocks and fossils, and how plant and animal structures help them survive.
Weathering breaks rock into smaller pieces, and erosion carries those pieces away with water, wind or ice. A simple sand-and-water tray shows both happening in minutes.
Try building a simple circuit, testing which materials conduct electricity, or modeling erosion with sand and water. The best projects test one question with a fair test.
Look for science in everyday life: rocks on a hike, rust on a bike, or a flashlight's batteries. Ask your child to predict and explain what they see. Curiosity is the best science teacher.
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