4th grade Instructional Guide

McGraw Hill Unit 5: Our Dynamic Earth

GRADE4 SCIENCE

Module: Earth and it’s Changing Features

Our Dynamic Earth Teacher Edition Note: Student edition materials have been added to the Unit 3 student consumable. Page numbers below reference those page numbers.

Lesson 2: Evidence from Rocks & Fossils

Module: Earthquakes

Lesson 2: Model Earthquake Movement OR CSD Created Waves Lesson

VOCABULARY ● Rock

● Waves ● Amplitude ● Transverse Wave ● Longitudinal Wave ● Magnitude

● Sedimentary rock ● Sediment ● fossils ● Wavelength

SCAFFOLDING IN ACTION Skill Building

● Utilize ACT (Access Complex Text) and EL Support in Curriculum ● Make connections each day to the phenomenon. ● Explicitly teach the CER model to students for explaining phenomenon. ● Utilize the Leveled Library for additional background reading about content. ● Utilize the STEM career connections and other activities found in the Elaborate portion of the lesson.

Extension

MATERIALS NEEDED ● Our Dynamic Earth Teacher Edition ● Vocabulary Cards ● Phenomena Posters ● Aluminum pan with water

● spring toy (like a slinky) ● modeling clay ● masking tape

● Ruler ● Cork ● Clay

WONDERS CONNECTIONS

ENVISION CONNECTIONS

● Unit 5 T300 Connect to Content: Science ○ Minerals & Rocks ● Unit 1 Text Set 1

● No connection to Utah SEEd standards