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Energy

Energy

Energy

Practice energy concepts with this free, printable 4th grade worksheet. 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.

Speed and Energy Fill-In

Speed and Energy Fill-In

A printable fill-in-the-blank worksheet where fourth graders complete sentences about how a moving object's speed relates to its energy. Aligned to the NGSS (4-PS3-1), covering objectives such as: use evidence to explain how an object's speed relates to its energy. Free to edit, download, and print on Chalkie.ai.

Energy Vocabulary Word Search

Energy Vocabulary Word Search

Build key energy vocabulary with this printable word search covering sound, light, heat, electricity, and energy transfer for fourth graders. Aligned to the NGSS (4-PS3-2), covering objectives such as: make observations showing that energy can be transferred by sound, light, heat, and electric currents. Printable, editable, and free on Chalkie.ai.

Energy Transfer Sort

Energy Transfer Sort

Students sort real-world examples showing how energy moves by sound, light, heat, and electric currents in this cut-and-sort activity. Aligned to the NGSS (4-PS3-2), covering objectives such as: make observations that energy can be transferred from place to place. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.

Design an Energy Converter

Design an Energy Converter

Give your fourth graders guided notes on designing and refining a device that converts energy from one form to another. Aligned to the NGSS (4-PS3-4), covering objectives such as: apply scientific ideas to design a device that converts energy between forms. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.

Energy in Collisions

Energy in Collisions

Check what your fourth graders understand about energy changes when objects collide with this quick knowledge check. Aligned to the NGSS (4-PS3-3), covering objectives such as: ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.

Waves

Waves

Waves

This 4th grade waves worksheet is ready to print and use 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 print for free.

Wave Properties Exit Slip

Wave Properties Exit Slip

A printable exit slip that checks whether fourth graders can describe waves using amplitude and wavelength. Aligned to the NGSS (4-PS4-1), covering objectives such as: develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength. Free to edit, download, and print on Chalkie.ai.

Sending Messages with Patterns

Sending Messages with Patterns

Help your fourth graders explore how patterns can carry information with these guided notes on communication solutions. Aligned to the NGSS (4-PS4-3), covering objectives such as: generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information. Printable, editable, and free on Chalkie.ai.

How Waves Move Objects

How Waves Move Objects

Give your fourth graders a reading passage with comprehension questions on how waves can make objects move. Aligned to the NGSS (4-PS4-1), covering objectives such as: develop a model of waves that shows how waves can cause objects to move. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.

Parts of a Wave

Parts of a Wave

Students label the crest, trough, amplitude, and wavelength on wave diagrams in this diagram-labeling worksheet. Aligned to the NGSS (4-PS4-1), covering objectives such as: develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.

Light and Vision Matching

Light and Vision Matching

Review how light lets us see with this matching activity on light reflecting off objects and entering the eye. Aligned to the NGSS (4-PS4-2), covering objectives such as: develop a model showing that light reflecting off objects into the eye lets us see them. Printable, editable, and free on Chalkie.ai.

Earth's Processes

Earth's Processes

Earth's Processes

Help your 4th grade students explore Earth's processes with this editable worksheet. 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.

Rock Layers and Fossils Labeling

Rock Layers and Fossils Labeling

A printable diagram-labeling worksheet where fourth graders label rock layers and the fossils found within them. Aligned to the NGSS (4-ESS1-1), covering objectives such as: identify evidence from rock formations and fossils to explain landscape changes over time. Free to edit, download, and print on Chalkie.ai.

Reducing Natural Hazard Impacts

Reducing Natural Hazard Impacts

Students brainstorm ways to reduce the impact of earthquakes, floods, and other natural hazards using this printable mind map. Aligned to the NGSS (4-ESS3-2), covering objectives such as: generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans. Printable, editable, and free on Chalkie.ai.

Changing Landscapes Recap

Changing Landscapes Recap

Wrap up the unit with this lesson recap worksheet reviewing how weathering, erosion, and rock layers reshape landscapes. Aligned to the NGSS (4-ESS1-1), covering objectives such as: identify evidence from rock formations and fossils to explain how a landscape has changed. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.

Reading Landform Maps

Reading Landform Maps

Check whether fourth graders can read maps to spot patterns in Earth's landforms with this quick knowledge check. Aligned to the NGSS (4-ESS2-2), covering objectives such as: analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth's features. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.

Weathering and Erosion Sort

Weathering and Erosion Sort

Sort examples of weathering and erosion by water, ice, wind, and vegetation in this cut-and-sort activity for fourth graders. Aligned to the NGSS (4-ESS2-1), covering objectives such as: make observations providing evidence of the effects of weathering and erosion. Edit any question and print for free on Chalkie.ai.

Structure and Function

Structure and Function

Structure and Function

A NGSS-aligned 4th grade worksheet 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.

Structure and Function Test

Structure and Function Test

An end-of-unit assessment checking whether fourth graders can argue that plant and animal structures support survival, growth, and behavior. Aligned to the NGSS (4-LS1-1), covering objectives such as: construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures supporting survival. Free to edit, download, and print on Chalkie.ai.

Structure and Function Matching

Structure and Function Matching

Pair plant and animal structures with the survival functions they perform in this printable matching activity for fourth graders. Aligned to the NGSS (4-LS1-1), covering objectives such as: construct an argument that plants and animals have structures that support survival, growth, and behavior. Printable, editable, and free on Chalkie.ai.

Plant and Animal Structures Labeling

Plant and Animal Structures Labeling

Label the internal and external structures of plants and animals in this diagram-labeling worksheet built for fourth graders. Aligned to the NGSS (4-LS1-1), covering objectives such as: construct an argument that plants and animals have structures that function to support survival. Made on Chalkie.ai. Edit, download, and print for free.

Comparing Plant and Animal Structures

Comparing Plant and Animal Structures

Use a Venn diagram to compare how plant and animal structures are alike and different in supporting survival. Aligned to the NGSS (4-LS1-1), covering objectives such as: construct an argument that plants and animals have structures that support survival. Created with Chalkie.ai and fully customizable for your class.

Animal Senses Fact File

Animal Senses Fact File

Give your fourth graders a fact file on how animals use their senses to gather information and respond. Aligned to the NGSS (4-LS1-2), covering objectives such as: use a model to describe how animals receive information through their senses and respond. Edit any question and print for free on Chalkie.ai.

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Energy and waves headline the fourth grade NGSS units, alongside Earth's slowly changing surface and the structures that keep living things alive. These 4th grade science worksheets cover all four: energy (4-PS3), waves (4-PS4), Earth's processes (4-ESS1), and structure and function in living things (4-LS1).

Students use evidence to connect an object's speed to its energy, model waves in terms of amplitude and wavelength, read rock formations and fossils as evidence of how landscapes change over time, and argue from evidence that plants and animals have internal and external structures supporting survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Worksheets like these give NGSS units their written backbone: explanation scaffolds, diagrams to label, and evidence to interpret after the hands-on investigation is done. They print cleanly for class sets and are free to download. To adjust the reading level or swap in organisms and landforms from your region, edit any worksheet in Chalkie after signing up free.

What 4th Grade Science covers

  • Energy

    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

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

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  • Earth's Processes

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

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  • Structure and Function

    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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