Potential and Kinetic Energy
4th grade energy worksheet with roller coaster potential energy, a four-form energy match-up, and a toaster energy transfer question. NGSS 4-PS3-1.
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Energy
Speed and Energy Fill-In
4th grade speed and energy cloze passage: 12 blanks, a 15-word bank with three extras, and baseball, bowling ball, and marble ramp examples. NGSS 4-PS3-1.
Energy Vocabulary Word Search
4th grade energy word search with 10 words, from CIRCUIT to TRANSFER, placed across and down, plus a row-and-column answer key.
Energy Transfer Sort
Sort 16 energy transfer cards, from thunder to a laptop charger, into sound, light, heat, and electric current. 4th grade, NGSS 4-PS3-2, with answers.
Design an Energy Converter
Guided notes for a 4th grade energy converter design lesson: solar oven, hand-crank flashlight, rubber-band car, then plan, test, and refine. NGSS 4-PS3-4.
Energy in Collisions
4th grade collisions check: predict bowling ball and bumper car outcomes, read marble speed data in ft/s, and write a testable question. NGSS 4-PS3-3.
Waves
Wave Vocabulary and Diagrams
Match crest, trough, wavelength, and amplitude to a wave diagram, then draw a tsunami-tall wave and puddle ripples. 4th grade science, NGSS 4-PS4-1.
Wave Properties Exit Slip
4th grade waves exit slip, three per page: what amplitude measures, what a wave does to a floating beach ball, and a five-face check-in. NGSS 4-PS4-1.
Sending Messages with Patterns
4th grade guided notes on sending messages with patterns: decode Morse, compare flashlight and drumbeat codes, and invent a clap-and-stomp code. NGSS 4-PS4-3.
How Waves Move Objects
4th grade reading on ocean waves: wind makes waves, buoys bob in place, and eight questions on crest, amplitude, and wavelength. NGSS 4-PS4-1.
Parts of a Wave
Label a wave diagram with crest, trough, rest position, amplitude, and wavelength. Two-page 4th grade science sheet with an A to E key. NGSS 4-PS4-1.
Light and Vision Matching
4th grade light and vision matching: order the path from light source to brain, explain a dark-room apple and a mirror, and fix a wrong model. NGSS 4-PS4-2.
Earth's Processes
Fast and Slow Earth Changes
4th grade Earth changes sort: volcanoes, landslides, canyons, dunes, and glaciers as fast or slow, plus three picture tasks. NGSS 4-ESS1-1.
Rock Layers and Fossils Labeling
Label a canyon with its youngest, middle, and oldest rock layers, a river channel, and land plant and marine shell fossils. 4th grade, NGSS 4-ESS1-1.
Reducing Natural Hazard Impacts
4th grade natural hazards mind map: earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, and tsunamis, their impacts, and engineering fixes to compare. NGSS 4-ESS3-2.
Changing Landscapes Recap
4th grade landscapes recap: oldest rock layers, a mountaintop sea shell fossil, the Grand Canyon, and a landscape biography. NGSS 4-ESS1-1, 4-ESS2-1.
Reading Landform Maps
4th grade landform map worksheet: Rockies and Mississippi, the Ring of Fire, ocean trenches and ridges, and a prediction task. NGSS 4-ESS2-2.
Weathering and Erosion Sort
Sort 12 flashcards, from roots splitting rocks to floods moving topsoil, into weathering or erosion, then rank three rates of change. 4th grade NGSS.
Structure and Function
Animal Structures and Functions
4th grade structure and function sheet: match webbed feet, cactus spines, and an elephant's trunk to their jobs, then explain a camel's hump. NGSS 4-LS1-1.
Structure and Function Test
29-question 4th grade structure and function test: multiple choice, matching, a fox and mouse senses diagram, and a written argument. NGSS 4-LS1-1, 4-LS1-2.
Structure and Function Matching
4th grade structure and function matching: cactus thorns to turtle shells, four survival categories, and two desert and forest design puzzles. NGSS 4-LS1-1.
Plant and Animal Structures Labeling
Label a flowering plant and a fish, then tag each part internal or external. Four-page 4th grade science sheet with answer key. NGSS 4-LS1-1.
Comparing Plant and Animal Structures
4th grade Venn diagram: sort nine statements on petals, roots, lungs, gills, and stomachs into plants, animals, or both. NGSS 4-LS1-1, with answers.
Animal Senses Fact File
4th grade bat fact file: trace echolocation from ears to brain to response, add a researched fact, and compare bat and human hearing. NGSS 4-LS1-2.
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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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NGSS 4-PS4: developing a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength.
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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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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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