Engage your class in a selection of grade-specific, standards-based activities! All activities and lessons were carefully crafted with an eye towards Next Generation Science Standards for Fourth Grade students.
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Fourth grade scientists will navigate toward a deeper understanding of how organisms receive and process information in this virtual field trip. Introduce your students to creatures that live at the California Science Center as they develop and use models to explore how the internal and external structures of plants and animals function to help them interact with the world around them.
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Join our educators to discover how our resident venus flytrap, sand boa and military macaw sense and respond to information in unique ways. Plus, explore an eyeball by completing your own Science Sketch.
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Students will play a “choose-your-own-adventure”-style game in order to test interactions between an animal’s environment and the structures of its sensory system. They will use the game to develop and revise a model showing how information is received by the senses and processed through the brain.
This virtual field trip will get your fourth grade scientists wondering about how objects and information move. Make observations to find the relationship between speed and energy as we investigate in our Big Lab. Design and test a secret code to communicate with a friend!
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Join our educators as they guide you in finding the cause and effect relationship between the speed of a moving object and energy.
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Students will design and test a secret code that will allow them to communicate an ice cream sundae recipe to a friend.
