Ascension School

          Chesterfield, MO

Fourth Grade Curriculum

Science 

                    GOALS: 

The students of Ascension School will: 

·                    Recognize kinds of plants

·                    Learn types of consumers, food chains and food webs

·                    Recognize food-getting relationships

·                    Identify decomposers

·                    Differentiate between heat and temperature

·                    Learn how heat moves, static & current electricity, parallel circuits

·                    Identify minerals and types of rocks

·                    Recognize make-up of Earth, volcanoes and earthquakes

·                    Air and air pressure

·                    Identify planets

·                    Introduce the skeletal and muscular systems of the body 

CONTENT: 

·                    Plants

·                    Food chains and food webs

·                    Food-getting relationships

·                    Decomposers

·                    Heat and temperature

·                    Static and current electricity, parallel circuits

·                    Minerals and types of rocks

·                    Earth, volcanoes and earthquakes

·                    Air and air pressure

·                    Planets

·                    Skeletal and muscular systems