Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.C.3.1.2
Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.C.3.1.2
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- How would you describe the shape of the Earth’s orbit around the sun?
- Describe the motion of a swing.
- What will happen to a ball when you throw it into the air? Why does this happen?
- Emily pushes two toy cars with the same force. The blue car has a much smaller mass than the yellow car. Which car will roll farther? Explain your thinking.
- Mary throws a ball into the air. Instead of the ball falling back towards the ground, it moves to the right of her. Write a hypothesis about what you think could have caused the ball’s movement. Explain why you think this will happen.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Circular or an oval
- Back and forth
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Potential energy of ball is transformed into kinetic energy of ball as it travels up
- Ball goes up due to force applied by person who threw the ball
- Ball stops at top of path because all of the ball’s kinetic energy was transformed into potential energy
- Ball falls back down to ground due to gravity
- Potential energy is transformed back into kinetic energy as ball falls
- When ball stops moving, all of its energy has been transformed back into potential energy
- The blue car (small) will travel farther.
Acceptable explanations may include, but are not limited to:- Small car has less mass than larger car
- Force of friction is less on small car
- Less force is needed to move the small car the same distance as larger car
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Wind was blowing to the right
- The force she applied could have been directed slightly to the right
- Someone may have hit the ball while it was in the air.
- The ball encountered some sort of obstruction that changed its path to the right
