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Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.A.3.3.1

Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.A.3.3.1

Continuum of Activities

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

Activities

  1. Define pattern?

  2. Give two examples of patterns you see in nature.

The graph below shows the average annual high temperatures in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania over a two-year period.  Use this graph to answer questions #1-3.

  1. Make two observations about the temperature pattern that this graph shows.

  2. Which three months represent summer?  How do you know?

  3. Which three months represent winter?  How do you know?

  4. Explain how the lifecycle of a butterfly is a pattern.
  1. What facts would you select to help prove that the moon changes its phase in a pattern?

  2. Many patterns in nature occur with the pattern of changing seasons.  Explain one of these patterns.  How is this pattern related to the pattern of the changing seasons?

 

Answer Key/Rubric

  1. A series of things or events that take place over and over again.

  2. Examples include but are not limited to: moon phases, tides, life cycles, seasons
  1. Examples of appropriate observations include but are not limited to:
  • The hottest temperatures are in July.
  • The coldest temperatures are in January.
  • The temperature increases then decreases each year.
  • The temperatures in the first summer are similar to the temperatures in the second summer.
  1. June, July, and August represent the summer months.

    Student reasoning should state that these months have the warmest temperatures and this is characteristic of the summer months in Pennsylvania.

  2. December, January, and February represent the winter months.

    Student reasoning should state that these months have the coldest temperatures and this is characteristic of the winter months in Pennsylvania.
  1. The lifecycle of a butterfly is a pattern because every butterfly goes through the same stages in its lifetime.  These stages always occur in the same sequence for all butterflies. 
  1. Facts to defend student’s argument may include, but are not limited to:
  • Moon repeats phase about every 28 days.
  • Moon phases occur in the same sequence.
  • Moon phase can be predicted.
  1. Seasonal patterns may include:
  • Hibernation
  • Migration
  • Temperature changes
  • Growth of vegetation
  • Birth of animals
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