Science, Grade 4
Nova Scotia · Grade 4 · Science — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Life Science: Habitat
Investigating a variety of local habitats and what organisms need to survive, then analysing how living things and the environment are interconnected through relationships, food webs, and human impact.
- Characteristics of local habitats
- What organisms need to survive
- Effects of changes in a habitat
- Relationships in a habitat
- Food webs in a habitat
- Human impacts on local habitats
- How habitats connect to each other
Unit 2: Physical Science: Light
Investigating the properties of light - its sources and how it is absorbed, transmitted, reflected, and refracted - then how light is used in technologies and optical devices.
- Natural and artificial light sources
- How light is absorbed, reflected, and bent
- Measuring light with probeware
- Technologies that use light
- Optical devices
Unit 3: Physical Science: Sound
Investigating sound in the environment - what affects it and the devices that make and receive it, measured with probeware - then testing how properties of sound change, from vibration to pitch and volume.
- How the environment affects sound
- Devices that make and receive sound
- Measuring sound with probeware
- Vibration is the source of sound
- How materials change sound
- Making high, low, loud, and soft sounds
Unit 4: Earth and Space Science: Rocks and Minerals
Analysing rocks, minerals, and fossils in the local environment - their properties, formation, and uses - then investigating how Earth's surface changes over time through the rock cycle and erosion.
- Properties of rocks and minerals
- How fossils form
- Sorting local rocks and minerals
- Uses of rocks and minerals
- How rocks change
- Erosion
- Human impacts on the rock cycle
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