Grade 4 Science Arkansas standards Standards

Navigating the Digital World

Digital Communication - Using devices to stay connected with people.

Identify how not to be a cyberbully.

Describe how to disengage and/or ask for help/ assistance with cyberbullying and other online threats.

Identify positive and negative actions that add to a digital footprint.

Understand how to adjust online communication (e.g., use full words, tone, punctuation) based on context and purpose.

Digital Privacy & Security - Keeping you safe while exploring and learning online.

Describe potential consequences for failing to protect personal information online.

Compare and contrast online audiences (e.g., friends, family, online gaming, public posting), including what is appropriate to share.

Understand the curiosity gap and how bad actors try to convince you to click.

Identify websites for legitimacy, safety and appropriateness.

Responsible Use of Technology - Developing good habits to use throughout their digital lives.

Develop strategies for choosing alternative activities and setting personal technology use goals.

Properly acknowledge sources in all projects (e.g., reports, art, science).

Evaluate digital information as either reliable or unreliable.

Programming Fundamentals

Computational Thinking - Breaking down big, complex problems into smaller, manageable parts.

Create an original pattern and explain its rule.

Evaluate a set of instructions to see if it will complete the expected task.

Decompose a complex problem into subtasks.

Identify relevant information when problem solving.

Designing Algorithms- Creating sets of instructions for solving problems.

Design multi-step algorithms that utilize decision-making structures.

Use debugging strategies to identify and fix errors.

Develop Programming Skills - Learning to create simple instructions for computers to express ideas.

Discuss how conditional statements mirror real-world decision making.

Use block based coding to create programs that include conditional statements (if-else) with comparative operators (<, > and ==) and loops.

Making Decisions with Data

Data Collection - Gathering and organizing information to understand the importance of data in everyday life.

Identify whether data is relevant to a given question or topic.

Explain how digital sensors (e.g., thermometer, pulse sensor, light sensor, caliper) can be used as tools to gather data.

Understand that data should be used to make informed decisions.

Data Analysis - Understanding how data can be used to answer questions and make decisions in daily life.

Identify patterns, trends, and relationships in data.

Develop relevant questions for exploring data.

Analyze data to draw conclusions and make predictions.

Data Representation - Presenting data in various ways that make the information easier to understand and analyze.

Create appropriate visualizations to communicate data insights.

Communicate data insights persuasively.

Computing Essentials

Computer Components- Focusing on the basic functions of each part of the computer.

Differentiate between external components(monitor, keyboard, mouse) and the main unit that houses internal components(CPU tower, laptop body).

Apply proper computer care practices and understand the impact of device usage.

Identify common operating systems (e.g., macOS, Windows, ChromeOS) and how we interact with them differently.

Communicate basic computer related problems including what happened, and what steps have already been taken.

Digital Literacy- Using a variety of digital tools to create, communicate, collaborate, and apply learning across subjects.

Create digital content using spreadsheet software (e.g., graphs and tables), applying formatting.

Revise digital content, utilizing digital resources (e.g., spelling/grammar check, thesaurus, online research tools) to enhance clarity and impact.

Demonstrate basic file management (e.g., descriptive file names, create folders, navigate to find files).

Practice typing including touch typing, symbols and special characters, and keyboard shortcuts (e.g., cut, copy, paste, and undo).

Connected Devices - Understanding how computers communicate and share information.

Identify examples of Internet of Things (IoT) devices (e.g., thermostat, security cameras, refrigerator, doorbell, kitchen appliances, digital assistant, robot vacuum, outlets, lightbulbs).

Identify that there are limitations to the bandwidth of a network.

Describe basic troubleshooting steps for common network issues (e.g., restarting devices, checking network and power cables).

Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science

Energy

Waves: Waves and Information

Earth's Systems: Processes that Shape the Earth

Structure, Function, and Information Processing

Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.

Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.

Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth's features.

Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.

Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Use a model to describe that animals' receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.

Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.

Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.

Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.

Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen.

Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.