NEWLY UPDATED - 2022 Curriculum! Ontario Grade 4 Science Bundle - GOOGLE/PDF

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UPDATED IN 2022! BOTH GOOGLE SLIDES AND PDF VERSIONS INCLUDED!

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Most importantly, we have made cross-curriculum connections to the grade 4 language program. Students will practice reading comprehension strategies (making connections, questioning, visualizing, and inferencing) as they work through this unit.

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Unit 1 - Machines and their Mechanisms

• What are machines?
• Simple machines – overview
• Roller vs wheel – sliding friction
• Wheel and axle – mechanical advantage
• Gears – spur gear, idle gear, bevel gear and worm gear
• Bicycles – using gears
• Gear trains and gear ratios – mechanical advantages
• Gears – changing planes (horizontal vs vertical)
• Gears - rotary motion vs linear motion
• Pulleys – fixed pulley, moveable pulley and compound pulley
• Pulleys - calculating mechanical advantage
• Pulleys – changing direction of force
• Pulley systems in our everyday lives
• Experiment – creating a pulley system
• Levers – types (class 1, class 2, class 3)
• Levers in our everyday lives
• Labelling levers by their type/class
• Experiment – creating a lever system
• Calculating the mechanical advantage of levers
• Inclined planes – mechanical advantage
• Everyday uses of inclined planes
• Calculating the mechanical advantage of inclined planes
• Wedges – everyday uses and diagram
• Screw – everyday uses and diagram
• Identifying simple machines in your life
• Compound machines – scissors, wheelbarrow
• Muscular-skeletal system – levers in our bodies
• Importance of machines in our lives – backhoe
• Electric vs fuel burning vehicles (machines) – effects on the environment

Unit 2 - Habitats and Communities

• What are habitats?
• What is a community?
• Terrestrial habitats vs aquatic habitats
• Difference between organisms, species, communities, and habitats
• Survival needs for organisms in habitats
• Animal adaptations that allow them to survive in their habitat
• Desert habitat – warm and cold deserts - climate, vegetation, animals, adaptations
• Grassland habitat – climate, vegetation, animals, adaptations
• Forest habitats – tropical forests, temperate forests, and boreal forests
• Importance of trees and forests for animals
• Aquatic habitats – wetlands
• Wetlands near us
• Plant and animal adaptations in wetlands
• Aquatic habitats – deep ocean and coral reefs
• Interaction of living and non-living things in habitats
• Food chain – producers, consumers and decomposers
• Creating a food chain
• Ordering food chains in different habitats
• Food web in wetlands
• Herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores
• Limits of habitats – carrying capacity
• Specialized vs generalized species
• Extinction and endangered species
• Human dependency on habitats – how humans affect habitats
• Wildlife populations and communities – endangered animals and extinction
• Human caused changes to habitats
• How you can help habitats

Unit 3 - Rocks, Minerals and Geological Processes

• What is geology?
• Rocks vs minerals
• Classifying rocks and minerals
• Mineral composition of certain rocks – granite, gneiss, limestone, conglomerate, etc.
• The rock cycle – reading and diagram
• Science experiment – the rock cycle
• Geological processes that create metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous rock
• Physical properties of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rock
• Identifying metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous rocks
• Describing rocks/minerals using their properties – lustre, hardness, colour, texture, transparency
• Science experiment – testing the hardness of rocks
• Earth’s processes – compacting, cementing, cooling, heating, pressure, erosion, etc.
• Controlling erosion – seawalls
• Weathering rocks – sediments
• Weathering, erosion, and deposition – formation of islands and sand dunes
• Science experiment - mixing earth’s materials
• Rocks and fossils
• What fossils tell us about Earth’s history
• The effects of wind, water, and ice on rocks and landforms
• Everyday uses of rocks
• Research activity – how rocks are used in different industries
• Indigenous use of rocks – Inukshuks, flint, and paint
• Activity – creating a clay Inukshuk
• Impacts of mining of the environment and socially (people)
• Mining towns – Mirny (Russia) and Dawson City (Yukon gold rush)

Unit 4 - Light and Sound

• What is energy – light and sound
• All about light – interesting facts
• Light sources – natural and artificial light
• Light emitters and light reflectors
• Properties of light – light absorbing, light reflecting, and light refracting
• Light travelling in a straight path - shadows
• White light and why we see colours
• Light interacting with different materials
• Light and heat – wasting energy
• Objects and devices that create both light and heat
• Shadows – opaque, transparent, and translucent objects – lab experiment
• Devices that use light – research assignment
• Lab – making a kaleidoscope
• Protecting our eyes from light
• Light pollution – affecting the environment
• Sound – interesting facts
• Sound travelling through matter – solids, liquids, and gases
• How our ears decipher sounds
• Properties of sound – reflected, absorbed (soundproof rooms)
• Sound waves - pitch, frequency, and amplitude
• Vibrations causing sound waves
• Echolocation – animals use sound to see
• Doppler effect
• Protecting our ears and hearing
• Materials that transmit sound
• Inventions that use sound – research assignment
• Sound pollution – transportation (trains, vehicles, airplanes)
• Lab – making a cereal box guitar

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