Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.D.1.2.3
Grade 04 Science - EC: S4.D.1.2.3
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
Grade Levels
4th Grade
Course, Subject
Science
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- Name three ways you use water every day.
- What is a reservoir used for?
- What is an aquifer? How do people get water out of aquifers?
- Name three ways people use water for recreation.
- Write a paragraph to summarize how a river can provide energy to homes.
- Farmers rely on stored water to water their plants when the weather is dry. What do you think would happen if the weather was so dry that the water level in reservoirs was very low? Explain why you think this might happen.
- Do you think reservoirs or aquifers are a more beneficial way to store water? Use at least three facts to explain your answer.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Answers include, but are not limited to: drinking, bathing, washing clothes, washing dishes, watering plants
- A reservoir is a man-made lake used to collect and store fresh water.
- An aquifer is an underground layer of rock that stores water. People get water from aquifers by drilling wells.
- Answers include, but are not limited to: Swimming, fishing, boating, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, rafting
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Moving water has kinetic energy.
- A dam could be built on a river.
- The kinetic energy of the water can turn turbines in the dam to create energy.
- This energy can be stored and homes can use it for electricity.
- Moving water has kinetic energy.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Water would have to be used to keep people and animals alive.
- Crops would be negatively impacted due to water shortage.
- Decrease in crops would affect people’s food supply.
- Water would have to be used to keep people and animals alive.
- Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
- Aquifers store water underground.
- Reservoirs store water on the Earth’s surface.
- The water in aquifers might be exposed to less pollution.
- Water in a reservoir is more easily accessible.
- Must drill a well to reach water in an aquifer
- Difficult to accurately locate aquifers
- Aquifers store water underground.
