Using the Counting By Fours Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 4s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Threes Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 3s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
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.
Using the Counting By Sixes Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 6s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
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.
Using the Counting By Nines Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 9s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Twos Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 2s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Tens Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 10s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Ones Song (Original Music Video), students practice counting by 1s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Science Songs (MP3 Album), students learn about different science concepts while listening to these upbeat and catchy songs.
While listening the Scientific Method Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about seven steps of the scientific method while listening to a catchy song.
The Community Song teaches kids how to be a good citizen in the community. This is a fun citizenship song that teaches kids about being a citizen and being part of their community.
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 the Community Song (MP3), students learn how to be a good citizen in the community by listening to this catchy song.
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.
Using thisMoon Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the phases of the moon through catchy, interesting lyrics.
Using the Counting By Eights Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 8s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Bigger numbers, bigger ideas
Fourth grade is where kids start using their skills to think hard. In math, they multiply bigger numbers, like 34 × 26 = 884, and learn long division with remainders. They find equivalent fractions, add fractions with the same denominator, write decimals to the hundredths, and measure angles with a protractor. In reading, kids summarize, find the theme, compare points of view and decode figurative language like idioms. Greek and Latin roots power up their vocabulary. Science and social studies bring the layers of the Earth, erosion, energy, latitude and longitude, and their own state's history.
Fourth graders can handle multi-step work when they see each step clearly. These moves give them that clarity.
Long division has a rhythm. Work one problem on the board and say each step out loud, then have kids chant the steps with you on the next one. A silly memory line like "Does McDonald's Sell Burgers?" helps the order stick.
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 withLong Division WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →For science and geography, a labeled diagram beats a paragraph of notes. Have kids color and label the crust, mantle, outer core and inner core, then cover the labels and quiz a partner. The picture becomes the memory hook.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withLayers of the Earth Definition WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Pick five Greek and Latin roots for the week, like graph, tele and port. Start each day with a two-minute game round where kids guess word meanings from the roots. By Friday they're decoding words they've never seen before.
Why it works: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withGreek and Latin Roots GameGamesOpen it →Fourth graders love a challenge. These ideas bring the fun without losing the rigor.
WorksheetsKids act out an idiom literally, like raining cats and dogs, while the class guesses it and explains what it really means.
Open Matching Idioms Worksheet →
WorksheetsGive coordinates and teams race to find the city or country on the map. The first team to name all five wins.
Open Latitude and Longitude Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids sketch a dream bedroom on grid paper, then find the area and perimeter of every piece of furniture.
Open Solving Area Word Problems Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Counting By Fours Song (Original Music Video), Counting By Threes Song (Original Music Video) and 50 States Song.
By the end of 4th grade, kids multiply up to four digits by one digit and two digits by two digits, divide with one-digit divisors, find equivalent fractions, and use decimals to the hundredths. They also measure angles and solve area and perimeter problems.
Practice the four steps in order: divide, multiply, subtract, bring down. Make sure multiplication facts are solid first, because shaky facts are the biggest reason long division feels hard. One or two problems a day beats a whole page.
They should summarize a text, find the theme, compare first- and third-person points of view, and explain figurative language. They also use roots and affixes to figure out new words.
Fourth grade science often covers the layers of the Earth, weathering and erosion, energy, and how body systems like the skeleton work. Exact topics vary by state.
Yes! Every 4th grade worksheet prints as a ready-to-go PDF. Members get unlimited access to every 4th grade worksheet, activity, song and assessment, so you can teach a whole unit from one place.
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