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Energy
Energy

Energy

Practice energy concepts with this free, editable 4th grade lesson. Aligned to the NGSS (4-PS3), covering objectives such as: use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.

Waves
Waves

Waves

This 4th grade waves lesson is ready to present in class. Aligned to the NGSS (4-PS4), covering objectives such as: develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and present for free.

Earth's Processes
Earth's Processes

Earth's Processes

Help your 4th grade students explore Earth's processes with this editable lesson. Aligned to the NGSS (4-ESS1), covering objectives such as: identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time. Sign up free to Chalkie.ai.

Structure and Function
Structure and Function

Structure and Function

A NGSS-aligned 4th grade lesson covering structure and function (4-LS1), including objectives such as: construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. Fully editable on Chalkie.ai.

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Energy, waves, fossils, and the structures that keep living things alive — 4th grade NGSS reads like a highlight reel of science. These lessons cover the grade's major performance expectations: relating an object's speed to its energy (4-PS3), modeling waves by amplitude and wavelength (4-PS4), reading landscape history from rock layers and fossils (4-ESS1), and arguing from evidence about internal and external structures (4-LS1).

Each deck is built around an NGSS practice: constructing explanations from evidence in the energy lesson, developing models in the waves lesson, constructing arguments in structure and function. Students engage with the practice, not just the topic.

These 4th grade science lessons are free to view and fully editable in Chalkie. Trade the examples for phenomena your students have seen, add a diagram slide, or regenerate an explanation at a simpler reading level. Adapting a deck takes a fraction of the time building one does, which leaves more of your energy for the discussions that make science stick.

What 4th Grade Science covers

  • Energy

    Aligned to NGSS 4-PS3, using evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

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  • Waves

    Covers NGSS 4-PS4, developing a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength.

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  • Earth's Processes

    Targets NGSS 4-ESS1, identifying evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to explain changes in a landscape over time.

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  • Structure and Function

    Aligned to NGSS 4-LS1, constructing an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

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