Download 3. Curricula - example B

OKCPS Elementary Science
Unit: Soil, Rocks, and Landforms (FOSS)
Page
FOURTH GRADE
CURRICULUM MAP
INVESTIGATION 1: Soils and Weathering
Focus
Questions
Content/DCI
Skills/SEP
Assessments
Part-1: What is
soil?
Rainfall helps to shape the land and
affects the types of living things
found in a region. Water, ice, wind,
living organisms, and gravity breaks
rocks, soils and sediments into
smaller particles and move them
around.
Students will ask
questions, develop and
use models, planning
and carrying out
investigations, analyzing
and interpreting data,
and constructing
explanations for data.
S-1, Part 1:Survey, Science
notebook entry, response sheet,
performance assessment, I-Check
Part-2 What
causes big rocks
to break down
into smaller
rocks
Part-3 How are
rocks affected
by acid rain?
Part-4 What’s in
our schoolyard
soils?
S-1, Part 2: Science notebook
entry, ongoing performance
assessment, and response sheet Icheck 2
S-1,Part 3:
Science notebook entry, response
sheet, performance assessment and
I-check 3
Strategies and Resources
Oklahoma
Academic
Standards
 FOSSweb online: Teacher ESS2-1
master No.1, 3, 4, 5 and 6
Science notebook master
printable No 1-7
 Assessment master 1, 2
and 6. Science resource
book list, interactive
white board, streaming
videos.
 ELA connection: R1 1,
R1 2, R1 4, R1 6, R1 7,
R1 8, W5, W8, SL-1, SL4, L-4 See page 100.
s-1 Part four Response sheet,
science notebook entry,
performance assessment, posttest.
Vocabulary: abrasion, acid rain, basalt, calcite, chemical reaction, chemical weathering, clay, conglomerate, earth material, expand, freeze, granite, gravel, humus,
limestone, marble, model, Pebble, physical weathering, rock, sand, sandstone, silt, soil, system, weathering
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OKCPS Elementary Science
Unit: Soil, Rocks, and Landforms (FOSS)
Page
FOURTH GRADE
INVESTIGATION 2: Landforms
Focus Questions
Content/DCI
Skills/SEP
Assessments
S2-1 How do
weathered rock
pieces move from
one place to
another
Local, regional and global patterns of
Students will ask questions,
rock formations reveal changes over time develop and use models,
due to earth’s forces suck as earthquakes. planning and carrying out
investigations, analyzing and
The presence and location of certain
interpreting data, and
fossil types indicate the order in which
constructing explanations for
rock layers were formed.
data.
Part 1: Science
notebook entry
S2-2 How does
slope affect erosion
and deposition.
How do floods
affect erosion and
deposition?
Rainfall helps to shape the land and
affects the types of living things found in
a region. Water, ice, wind, living
organisms and gravity break rocks, soils
and sediments into smaller particles and
move them around.
Part 2: performance
assessment
.
S2-3 Where are
erosion and
deposition
happening in our
schoolyard?
Part 3: Response sheet
S2-4 How do
fossils get in rocks
and what do they
tell us about the
past?
Part 4: science
notebook entry and Icheck 2.
Strategies and
Resources
 Foss online: Teacher
master 8-12
 Science notebook
master printable 8-14
 Science resource book
list, interactive white
board, focus questions,
streaming videos
 ELA connection
details page R1 1, R1 2,
R1 3, R1 6, R1 7, SL 1,
SL 5. Page 1990 for
details.
Oklahoma
Academic
Standards
ESS1-1
ESS2-1
Vocabulary: Carnivore, cast, conclusion, deposition, digestive system, erosion, evidence, flood, fossil, fossil record, fracture, geologist, glacier, herbivore, lava, mold,
organism, paleontologist, petrified wood, predator, restoration, sediment, sedimentary rock, transport, volcano
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OKCPS Elementary Science
Unit: Soil, Rocks, and Landforms (FOSS)
Page
FOURTH GRADE
INVESTIGATION 3: Mapping Earth’s Surface
Focus Questions
Content/DCI
Skills/SEP
Assessments
Strategies and
Resources
S3 Part 1: How
can we represent
the different
elevations of
landforms?
The history of planet earth. Local, regional and
global patterns of rock formations reveal
changes over time due to earth’s forces such as
earthquakes. The presence and location of
certain fossil types indicate the order in which
rock layers were formed.
Students will ask questions,
develop and use models,
planning and carrying out
investigations, analyzing and
interpreting data, and
constructing explanations for
data.
S-3, Part 1:
Science notebook
entry.
 Foss online: Teacher
master 13-17
 Science notebook
master printable 1517.
 Science resource
book list, interactive
white board, focus
questions, streaming
videos
 ELA connection:
R1 2, R1 3,R1 7,, , W
8, SL 4., details page
246.
S3-2: How can we
draw the profile
of a mountain
from a
topographical
map?
S3-3: How can
scientists and
engineers help
reduce the
impacts that
events like
volcanic eruptions
might have on
people?
Plate tectonics and large-scale system
interactions: The location of mountain ranges,
deep ocean trenches, ocean floor structures,
earthquakes, and volcanoes occur in patterns.
Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur in
bands that are often along the boundaries
between continents and oceans. Major
mountain chains form inside continents or near
their edges. Maps can help locate the different
land and water features of earth.
S-3, Part 2:
Response sheet
S-3,Part 3
Performance
assessment
Sheet
Oklahoma
Academic
Standards
ESS2-2
ESS3-2
Natural hazards: A variety of hazards result
from natural processes. Humans can not
eliminate the hazards but can take steps to
reduce their impact.
Developing possible solutions. At whatever
S3 Part 4: Science
stage communicating with peers about
notebook entry, Iproposed solutions is an important part of the
check #3. See
design process and shared ideas can lead to
page 199.
improved designs.
Vocabulary: contour interval, contour line, crust, earthquake, elevation, landslide, lava, magma, mantle, profile, satellite cone, sea level, topographic map, volcano
S3-4: What events
can change earth’s
surface quickly?
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OKCPS Elementary Science
Unit: Soil, Rocks, and Landforms (FOSS)
Page
FOURTH GRADE
Unit: Soils, Rocks and Landforms
INVESTIGATION 4: Natural Resources
Focus Questions
S4 Part 1: What are
natural resources and
what is important to
know about them?
Content/DCI
Energy and fuels that humans use
are derived from natural sources,
and their use affects the
environment in multiple ways.
Skills/SEP
Obtaining, evaluating, and
communicating
information.
Assessments
S-4, Part 1: Response
sheet
Some resources are renewable over
time, and others are not.
S4 Part 2: How are
natural resources used
to make concrete?
S-4, Part 2: Science
notebook entry.
S4 Part 3: How do
people use natural
resources to make or
build things?
S-4,Part 3:
Performance
assessment
Posttest. See page 253.
Strategies and Resources
 Foss online: Teacher
master 22,23, and 24,
 Science notebook master
printable 18,
 Science resource book list,
interactive white board,
focus questions, streaming
videos
 ELA connection: R1 4,
R1 7,W 4 L4, details page
268.
Vocabulary: concrete, core, geoscientist, igneous rock, magma, mantle, metamorphic rock, natural resource, Portland cement
Oklahoma
Academic
Standards
ESS3-1
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