SCI-04.ESS1
DCI Earth Space Science ESS1
Earth's Place in the Universe
Performance Expectations
The performance expectations in fourth grade help students formulate answers to questions such as:
- What are waves and what are some things they can do?
- How can water, ice, wind and vegetation change the land?
- What patterns of Earth’s features can be determined with the use of maps?
- How do internal and external structures support the survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction of plants and animals?
- What is energy and how is it related to motion?
- How is energy transferred?
- How can energy be used to solve a problem?
Students are able to use a model of waves to describe patterns of waves in terms of amplitude and wavelength, and that waves can cause objects to move. Students are expected to develop understanding of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation. They apply their knowledge of natural Earth processes to generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of such processes on humans. In order to describe patterns of Earth’s features, students analyze and interpret data from maps. Fourth graders are expected to develop an understanding that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. By developing a model, they describe that an object can be seen when light reflected from its surface enters the eye. Students are able to use evidence to construct an explanation of the relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of that object. Students are expected to develop an understanding that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents or from object to object through collisions. They apply their understanding of energy to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
Calculation Method for DCI
Disciplinary Core Ideas are larger groups of related Performance Expectations. So the Disciplinary Core Idea Grade is a calculation of all the related Performance Expectations. So click on the Performance Expectation name below each Disciplinary Core Idea to access the learning targets and proficiency scales for each Disciplinary Core Idea's related Performance Expectations. |
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SCI-04.ESS1.01
 4th Grade (SCI) Science Standards
[ESS1] Earth's Place in the Universe
SCI-04.ESS1.01 Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers
to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
Clarification Statement: Examples of evidence from patterns could include rock layers with marine shell fossils above rock layers
with plant fossils and no shells, indicating a change from land to water over time; and, a canyon with
different rock layers in the walls and a river in the bottom, indicating that over time a river cut through the
rock.
Disciplinary Core Ideas
Local, regional, and global patterns of rock
formations reveal changes over time due to
earth forces, such as earthquakes. The
presence and location of certain fossil types
indicate the order in which rock layers were
formed.
Student Learning Targets:
Knowledge Targets
Reasoning Targets
- I can find evidence that “patterns of rock formations reveal changes over time due to earth forces, such as earthquakes.”
- I can find evidence of “certain fossil types that indicate the order in which rock layers were formed.”
Skills (Performance) Targets
Product Targets
Proficiency Scale
The Student ...
1 Beginning
... with help, demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and some of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).- identify patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers, but cannot support an explanation.
2 Developing
... demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).- identify patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers, and can create a hypothesis (an educated guess) about how landscape changes over time
3 Proficient
“The Standard.”... demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding any of the information and processes that were end of instruction expectations.- identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers for changes in a landscape over time to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
4 Advanced
... demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding more complex material that go beyond end of instruction expectations.
Resources
Websites
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SCI-04.ESS2
DCI Earth Space Science ESS2
Earth's Systems
Performance Expectations
The performance expectations in fourth grade help students formulate answers to questions such as:
- What are waves and what are some things they can do?
- How can water, ice, wind and vegetation change the land?
- What patterns of Earth’s features can be determined with the use of maps?
- How do internal and external structures support the survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction of plants and animals?
- What is energy and how is it related to motion?
- How is energy transferred?
- How can energy be used to solve a problem?
Students are able to use a model of waves to describe patterns of waves in terms of amplitude and wavelength, and that waves can cause objects to move. Students are expected to develop understanding of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation. They apply their knowledge of natural Earth processes to generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of such processes on humans. In order to describe patterns of Earth’s features, students analyze and interpret data from maps. Fourth graders are expected to develop an understanding that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. By developing a model, they describe that an object can be seen when light reflected from its surface enters the eye. Students are able to use evidence to construct an explanation of the relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of that object. Students are expected to develop an understanding that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents or from object to object through collisions. They apply their understanding of energy to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
Calculation Method for DCI
Disciplinary Core Ideas are larger groups of related Performance Expectations. So the Disciplinary Core Idea Grade is a calculation of all the related Performance Expectations. So click on the Performance Expectation name below each Disciplinary Core Idea to access the learning targets and proficiency scales for each Disciplinary Core Idea's related Performance Expectations. |
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SCI-04.ESS2.01
4th Grade (SCI) Science Standards
[ESS2] Earth's Systems
SCI-04.ESS2.01 Make observations and metric measurements to provide evidence of the
effects of weathering and the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or
vegetation.
Clarification Statement: Examples of variables to test could include angle of slope in the downhill movement of water, amount of
vegetation, speed of wind, relative rate of deposition, cycles of freezing and thawing of water, cycles of
heating and cooling, and volume of water flow.
Disciplinary Core Ideas
ESS2.A: Earth Materials and Systems
-Rainfall helps to shape the land and affects
the types of living things found in a region.
Water ice, wind, living organisms, and gravity
break rocks, soils, and sediments into smaller
particles and move them around.
ESS2.E: Biogeology
-Living things affect the physical characteristics
of their regions.
Student Learning Targets:
Knowledge Targets
Reasoning Targets
- I can document the “Cause and effect relationships of weathering and erosion.”
Skills (Performance) Targets
Product Targets
Proficiency Scale
The Student is able to...
(3) Proficient
- make observation and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, and vegetation.
(4) Advanced
- demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding more complex material that go beyond end of instruction expectations.
Resources
Websites
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SCI-04.ESS2.02
4th Grade (SCI) Science Standards
[ESS2] Earth's Systems
SCI-04.ESS2.02 Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s
features.
Clarification Statement: Maps can include topographic maps of Earth’s land and ocean floor, as well as maps of the locations of
mountains, continental boundaries, volcanoes, and earthquakes.
Disciplinary Core Ideas
The locations of mountain ranges, deep ocean
trenches, ocean floor structures, earthquakes,
and volcanoes occur in patterns. Most
earthquakes and volcanoes occur in bands
that are often along the boundaries between
continents and oceans. Major mountain chains
form inside continents or near their edges.
Maps can help locate the different land and
water features areas of Earth.
Student Learning Targets:
Knowledge Targets
Reasoning Targets
- I can present information that shows patterns of the Earth’s features from maps.
Skills (Performance) Targets
Product Targets
Proficiency Scale
The Student ...
1 Beginning
... with help, demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and some of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
2 Developing
... demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
- analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.
3 Proficient
“The Standard.”... demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding any of the information and processes that were end of instruction expectations.
4 Advanced
... demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding more complex material that go beyond end of instruction expectations.
Resources
Websites
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SCI-04.ESS3
DCI Earth Space Science ESS3
Earth and Human Activity
Performance Expectations
The performance expectations in fourth grade help students formulate answers to questions such as:
- What are waves and what are some things they can do?
- How can water, ice, wind and vegetation change the land?
- What patterns of Earth’s features can be determined with the use of maps?
- How do internal and external structures support the survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction of plants and animals?
- What is energy and how is it related to motion?
- How is energy transferred?
- How can energy be used to solve a problem?
Students are able to use a model of waves to describe patterns of waves in terms of amplitude and wavelength, and that waves can cause objects to move. Students are expected to develop understanding of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation. They apply their knowledge of natural Earth processes to generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of such processes on humans. In order to describe patterns of Earth’s features, students analyze and interpret data from maps. Fourth graders are expected to develop an understanding that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. By developing a model, they describe that an object can be seen when light reflected from its surface enters the eye. Students are able to use evidence to construct an explanation of the relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of that object. Students are expected to develop an understanding that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents or from object to object through collisions. They apply their understanding of energy to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
Calculation Method for DCI
Disciplinary Core Ideas are larger groups of related Performance Expectations. So the Disciplinary Core Idea Grade is a calculation of all the related Performance Expectations. So click on the Performance Expectation name below each Disciplinary Core Idea to access the learning targets and proficiency scales for each Disciplinary Core Idea's related Performance Expectations. |
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SCI-04.ESS3.01
4th Grade (SCI) Science Standards
[ESS3] Earth and Human Activity
SCI-04.ESS3.01 Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are
derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.
Clarification Statement: Examples of renewable energy resources could include wind energy, water behind dams, and sunlight;
non-renewable energy resources are fossil fuels and fissile materials. Examples of environmental effects
could include loss of habitat due to dams, loss of habitat due to surface mining, and air pollution from
burning of fossil fuels.
Disciplinary Core Ideas
Energy and fuels that humans use are derived
from natural sources, and their use affects the
environment in multiple ways. Some
resources are renewable over time, and others
are not.
Student Learning Targets:
Knowledge Targets
Reasoning Targets
- I can categorize/classify renewable and non-renewable resources and their effects on the environment.
Skills (Performance) Targets
Product Targets
Proficiency Scale
The Student ...
1 Beginning
... with help, demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and some of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
2 Developing
... demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
3 Proficient
“The Standard.”... demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding any of the information and processes that were end of instruction expectations.
- obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.
4 Advanced
... demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding more complex material that go beyond end of instruction expectations.
Resources
Websites
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SCI-04.LS1
DCI Life Science LS1
From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
Performance Expectations
The performance expectations in fourth grade help students formulate answers to questions such as:
- What are waves and what are some things they can do?
- How can water, ice, wind and vegetation change the land?
- What patterns of Earth’s features can be determined with the use of maps?
- How do internal and external structures support the survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction of plants and animals?
- What is energy and how is it related to motion?
- How is energy transferred?
- How can energy be used to solve a problem?
Students are able to use a model of waves to describe patterns of waves in terms of amplitude and wavelength, and that waves can cause objects to move. Students are expected to develop understanding of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation. They apply their knowledge of natural Earth processes to generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of such processes on humans. In order to describe patterns of Earth’s features, students analyze and interpret data from maps. Fourth graders are expected to develop an understanding that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. By developing a model, they describe that an object can be seen when light reflected from its surface enters the eye. Students are able to use evidence to construct an explanation of the relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of that object. Students are expected to develop an understanding that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents or from object to object through collisions. They apply their understanding of energy to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
Calculation Method for DCI
Disciplinary Core Ideas are larger groups of related Performance Expectations. So the Disciplinary Core Idea Grade is a calculation of all the related Performance Expectations. So click on the Performance Expectation name below each Disciplinary Core Idea to access the learning targets and proficiency scales for each Disciplinary Core Idea's related Performance Expectations. |
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SCI-04.LS1.01
 4th Grade (SCI) Science Standards
[LS1] From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
SCI-04.LS1.01 Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external
structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and
reproduction.
Clarification Statement: Examples of structures could include thorns, stems, roots, colored petals, heart, stomach, lung, brain, skin,
quills, horns, tusks, scales, etc
Disciplinary Core Ideas
Plants and animals have both internal and
external structures that serve various
functions in growth, survival, behavior, and
reproduction.
Student Learning Targets:
Knowledge Targets
- I can identify the major parts of plants and animals.
- I can identify adaptations that help plants and animals survive in their environment.
Reasoning Targets
- I can classify animals by characteristics (vertebrates/invertebrates).
- I can compare structures in plants and animals that serve different functions in survival, growth and reproduction.
- I can understand that “Plants and animals have both internal and external structures that serve various functions in growth, survival, behavior, and reproduction.”
Skills (Performance) Targets
- I can compare and refine arguments based on an evaluation of the evidence presented.
- I can plan and conduct an investigation collaboratively to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence, using fair tests in which variables are controlled and the number of trials considered.
Product Targets
- I can construct and/or support an argument with evidence, data, and/or a model.
Proficiency Scale
The Student ...
1 Beginning
... with help, demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and some of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
2 Developing
... demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
3 Proficient
“The Standard.”
... demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding any of the information and processes that were end of instruction expectations.
- construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
4 Advanced
... demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications regarding more complex material that go beyond end of instruction expectations.
Resources
- reproduction
- pollination
- pollen
- fertilization
- seed dispersal
Websites
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SCI-04.PS3
DCI Physical Science PS3
Energy
Performance Expectations
The performance expectations in fourth grade help students formulate answers to questions such as:
- What are waves and what are some things they can do?
- How can water, ice, wind and vegetation change the land?
- What patterns of Earth’s features can be determined with the use of maps?
- How do internal and external structures support the survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction of plants and animals?
- What is energy and how is it related to motion?
- How is energy transferred?
- How can energy be used to solve a problem?
Students are able to use a model of waves to describe patterns of waves in terms of amplitude and wavelength, and that waves can cause objects to move. Students are expected to develop understanding of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation. They apply their knowledge of natural Earth processes to generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of such processes on humans. In order to describe patterns of Earth’s features, students analyze and interpret data from maps. Fourth graders are expected to develop an understanding that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. By developing a model, they describe that an object can be seen when light reflected from its surface enters the eye. Students are able to use evidence to construct an explanation of the relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of that object. Students are expected to develop an understanding that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents or from object to object through collisions. They apply their understanding of energy to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
Calculation Method for DCI
Disciplinary Core Ideas are larger groups of related Performance Expectations. So the Disciplinary Core Idea Grade is a calculation of all the related Performance Expectations. So click on the Performance Expectation name below each Disciplinary Core Idea to access the learning targets and proficiency scales for each Disciplinary Core Idea's related Performance Expectations. |
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