Science, Grade 4

Unit 1: Habitats and Communities

Local habitats and the adaptations of the plants and animals that live there, energy flow in food webs, human impact on habitats, and protecting or restoring them.

• Identifying local habitats
• Adaptations for survival

• Energy flow in a food web
• When a population changes
• Human impact on habitats
• Protecting and restoring habitats
• Indigenous knowledge and caring for habitats

Unit 2: Rocks, Minerals, and Erosion

Classifying rocks and minerals and relating their properties to uses, how erosion and weathering change the landscape, fossils and Earth's history, and rapid landscape changes.

• Classifying rocks and minerals
• Rocks, minerals, and their uses

• Erosion and weathering
• Fossils and Earth's history
• Rapid changes to the land

Unit 3: Light

The properties of light, how optical devices extend our vision, and creating an optical device to solve a problem.

• Properties of light
• Optical devices extend our vision
• Creating an optical device

Unit 4: Sound

Examples of sounds and sound technologies, the properties of sound, and creating a device to transmit or detect sound.

• Sounds and sound technologies
• Properties of sound
• Creating a sound device

Unit 5: Experimentation

Performing an experiment and recording observations, analysing and interpreting data, and communicating results.

• Performing an experiment
• Analysing and interpreting data
• Communicating results