Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.D.1.1.1
Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.D.1.1.1
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
- List three examples of landforms.
- What is a sinkhole?
- What is a watershed?
- Name two mountain regions in Pennsylvania.
- How are caves and sinkholes related?
- Summarize how mountains are formed?
- Tom said that Harrisburg is in the Ohio River watershed. Do you agree with him? Why or why not?
- The peninsula in Lake Erie is called Presque Isle. Write a hypothesis about how you think this peninsula formed. Explain why you think the peninsula formed this way.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Examples include, but are not limited to: mountains, valleys, caves, sinkholes, lakes, rivers
- A sinkhole is a hole in the ground caused by moving water.
- A watershed is an area of land that causes water to flow into different bodies of water.
- Allegheny and Appalachian mountains
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Sinkholes are underground caves created by water.
- When a sinkhole becomes too large, the soil above it collapses. Then the sinkhole has an opening on Earth’s surface like a cave.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Earth’s tectonic plates are in constant motion.
- Convergent plates move towards each other.
- When two continental plates converge, they push land together, forming mountains.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- A watershed is an area of land that causes water to flow into different bodies of water.
- Harrisburg is in the Susquehanna River watershed.
- The Ohio River watershed is in western Pennsylvania.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Floodwaters covered land then receded leaving large end of peninsula dry and creating bay.
- Higher land was more difficult to erode leaving a narrow path to end of peninsula. Lower land was eroded away which created the opening to bay.
- Rock was more difficult than soil to erode leaving a narrow path to end of peninsula. Soil was eroded away which created the opening to bay.
