Alike Johnson & Donald Greene
Wylam Elementary
4th Grade 2011/2012
1st Nine weeks
Technology
1.) Use input and output devices of technology systems.
• Demonstrating ergonomics relative to technology systems
• Demonstrating correct keyboarding techniques
• Demonstrating safe removal of storage media
5.) Practice safe use of technology systems and applications.
9.) Use technology tools to organize, interpret, and display data.
Character Development
2.) Patriotism 6.) Respect for others 10.) Self-control 17.) Cleanliness 25.) Perseverance 22.) Creativity 23.) Sportsmanship
Reading/Language
8.) Compose descriptive texts using an introductory paragraph, sensory details, vivid language, and a conclusion.
• Determining purpose and audience prior to writing
• Demonstrating clarity and organization in a composition
• Composing expository texts using a main idea with three supporting details
• Composing narrative texts using a definite time frame, selected tone, and a clear sequence of events
• Writing complex sentences to vary sentence structure
• Correcting sentence fragments and run-on sentences in writing
• Demonstrating the process of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing
• Demonstrating usage of graphic organizers during prewriting
• Spelling correctly in final written texts
• Bulleting major ideas during prewriting
• Utilizing figurative language to enhance written communication
10.) Apply mechanics in writing, including capitalization of business and friendly letter parts and envelope addresses and use of punctuation, including apostrophe with contractions; underlining or italicizing of book titles; and commas to separate items in a series and in a physical address.
• Capitalizing proper adjectives and the first word in direct quotations
• Applying correct punctuation in a direct quotation, including quotation marks, commas, and end marks
• Using commas correctly in a compound sentence
• Using apostrophes with possessives
11.) Demonstrate knowledge of subject-verb agreement with simple subjects and correct usage of regular and irregular verb forms.
• Differentiating among helping, linking, and action verbs
• Demonstrating correct use of nouns, pronouns, conjunctions, adjectives, and adverbs
• Writing sentences without the use of double negatives
Math
1.) Demonstrate number sense by comparing and ordering decimals to hundredths and whole numbers to 999,999.
• Identifying a number when given a pictorial representation of tenths and hundredths or groups of ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands
• Writing a number in expanded notation through the hundred-thousands
• Determining the place value of a digit in a whole number through the hundred-thousands and in a decimal to the hundredths
2.) Write money amounts in words and dollar-and-cent notation.
• Identifying equivalent units of money.
5.) Round whole numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand and decimals to the nearest tenth.
10.) Complete addition and subtraction number sentences with a missing addend or subtrahend.
6.) Solve problems, including word problems, that involve addition and subtraction of four-digit numbers with and without regrouping.
• Estimating sums and differences of whole numbers by using appropriate strategies such as rounding, front-end estimation, and compatible numbers
• Adding and subtracting decimals and money amounts
Science
5.) Describe the interdependence of plants and animals.
• Describing behaviors and body structures that help animals survive in particular habitats
• Describing life cycles of various animals to include incomplete and complete metamorphosis
6.) Classify animals as vertebrates or invertebrates and as endotherms or ectotherms.
• Describing the organization of cells into tissues, organs, and organ system
• Describing the grouping of organisms into populations, communities, and ecosystems
• Classifying common organisms into kingdoms, including Animalia, Plantae, Protista, Fungi, Archaebacteria, and Eubacteria
• Tracing the flow of energy through a food chain
• Identifying characteristics of organisms, including growth and development, reproduction, acquisition and use of energy, and response to the environment
Social Studies
14.) Describe the social, political, and economic impact of the modern Civil Rights Movement on Alabama.
• Identifying important people and events of the modern Civil Rights Movement
• Identifying benefits of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act
10.) Describe significant social and educational changes in Alabama during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Explaining the development and changing role of industry, trade, and agriculture in Alabama during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the rise of populism
• Explaining the impact of the voting rights revision in the Alabama Constitution of 1901, including Jim Crow Laws
• Identifying Alabamians who made contributions in the fields of science, education, the arts, the military, politics, and business during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• Discussing cultural contributions from various regions of Alabama that contributed to
15.) Identify major world events that have impacted Alabama since 1950.
• Recognizing Alabamians who have made significant contributions to society since 1950
2nd Nine Weeks
Character Education
1.) Courage 3.) Citizenship 4.) Honesty 5.) Fairness 7.) Kindness 24.) Loyalty
Technology
2.) Use various technology applications, including word processing and multimedia software.
• Using navigational features commonly found in technology applications
• Identifying digital file types
6.) Describe social and ethical behaviors related to technology use.
- ethical-citing sources of text and digital content, avoiding plagiarism, avoiding manipulation of others' work without permission
• Describing the global nature of the Internet
• Following local acceptable-use policies regarding technology
• Identifying intrusive applications, including worms, viruses, spyware, and pop-up advertisements
Reading/Language Arts
1 .) Demonstrate word recognition skills, including structural analysis.
•Producing common word parts
•Reading multisyllable words
•Reading compound words, contractions, possessives, and inflectional endings
2.) Demonstrate reading vocabulary knowledge, including recognition of a variety of synonyms and antonyms.
•Using context clues
•Reading multiple-meaning words
•Increasing number of sight words
3.) Use a wide range of strategies, including distinguishing fiction from nonfiction and making inferences, to comprehend fourth-grade recreational reading materials in a variety of genres.
• Skimming passages to get significance of passage
• Summarizing passages to restate information
• Comparing and contrasting to extend meaning
• Using knowledge of sentence structure and context to enhance comprehension
• Using self-monitoring for text understanding, including rereading and adjusting rate and speed of reading
• Using vocabulary knowledge to enhance comprehension
• Reading fluently with expression and attention to punctuation
• Drawing conclusions to determine content not directly stated
• Asking and answering questions
• Relating events, ideas, and characters to prior knowledge and specific life experiences
4.) Identify literary elements and devices, including characters, important details, and similes, in recreational reading materials and details in informational reading materials.
• Identifying main idea
• Identifying author's purpose
Math
11.) Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, or octagons based on the number of sides, angles, and vertices.
• Demonstrating slides (translations), flips (reflections), and turns (rotations) using triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, or octagons
• Drawing lines of symmetry in triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, or octagons
12.) Find locations on a map or grid using ordered pairs.
13.) Calculate elapsed time in hours and minutes.
14.) Measure length, width, weight, and capacity, using metric and customary units, and temperature in degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius.
• Estimating perimeter and area of irregular shapes using unit squares and grid paper
16.) Determine if outcomes of simple events are likely, unlikely, certain, equally likely, or impossible.
17.) Represent numerical data using tables and graphs, including bar graphs and line graphs
Science
8.) Identify technological advances and other benefits of space exploration.
• Listing highlights of space exploration, including satellites, manned moon missions, the unmanned Mars mission, and an inhabited space station
• Identifying Alabama's contribution to the space industry
9.) Describe the appearance and movement of Earth and its moon.
• Identifying the waxing and waning of the moon in the night sky
• Identifying lunar and solar eclipses
10.) Describe components of our solar system.
• Defining comets, asteroids, and meteors
Social Studies
6.) Identify cultural, economic, and political aspects of the lifestyles of early nineteenth-century farmers, plantation owners, slaves, and townspeople.
• Recognizing the impact of slavery on Alabama during the early nineteenth century
• Identifying major areas of agricultural production using an Alabama map
7.) Identify reasons for Alabama's secession from the Union, including sectionalism, slavery, state rights, and economic disagreements.
• Identifying Alabama's role in the organization of the Confederacy
8.) Explain Alabama's role in and economic support of the Civil War.
9.) Describe political, social, and economic conditions in Alabama during Reconstruction.
• Describing the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
• Identifying the role of African Americans in politics during Reconstruction in Alabama
• Describing policies of major political parties in Alabama
• Explaining resulting economic conditions of the Civil War, including the collapse of economic structure, destruction of the transportation infrastructure, and high casualty rates
3rd Nine weeks
Character Education
8.) Cooperation 9.) Self-respect 11.) Courtesy 12.) Compassion 13.) Tolerance
14.) diligence
Technology
8.) Collect information from a variety of digital sources.
• Using technology tools to organize information
• Demonstrating efficient Internet search strategies
• Evaluating electronic resources for reliability based on publication date, bias, accuracy, and source credibility
10.) Use digital environments to collaborate and communicate.
• Producing digital works collaboratively
Reading/Language Arts
5.) Use a wide range of strategies and skills, including using sentence structure, locating information, and distinguishing fact from fiction, to comprehend fourth-grade informational and functional reading materials.
• Determining sequence of events in informational and functional text
• Distinguishing fact from opinion in informational text
• Summarizing passages to demonstrate understanding
• Comparing and contrasting to extend meaning
• Using self-monitoring for text understanding, including rereading and adjusting rate and speed of reading
• Using text features to gain meaning
• Previewing to anticipate content
• Using note-taking skills, including highlighting and outlining
• Detecting obvious bias in informational text
• Recognizing persuasive techniques in informational text
9.) Respond in writing to open-ended questions.
• Utilizing bullets to organize major details and ideas to support a topic
12.) Organize information on a specific topic obtained from grade-appropriate reference materials.
• Formulating research questions
• Using paraphrasing to convey ideas from resources
• Using note-taking skills to gather information
Math
3.) Rename improper fractions as mixed numbers and mixed numbers as improper fractions.
• Using a number line to simplify, compare, and order fractions and mixed numbers
• Writing equivalent forms of fractions
4.) Demonstrate addition and subtraction of fractions with common denominators.
7.) Solve problems, including word problems, involving the basic operations of multiplication and division on whole numbers through two-digit multipliers and one-digit divisors.
• Estimating products and quotients of whole numbers by using appropriate strategies such as rounding, front-end estimation, and compatible numbers
• Identifying information needed to determine the appropriate operation to solve a problem
• Demonstrating computational fluency in multiplication and division fact families through 12
8.) Recognize equivalent forms of commonly used fractions and decimals.
9.) Write number sentences for word problems that involve multiplication or division.
15.) Represent categorical data using tables and graphs, including bar graphs, line graphs, and line plots.
• Collecting data using observations, surveys, or experiments
• Creating tally charts to represent data collected from real-life situations
Science
7.) Describe geological features of Earth, including bodies of water, beaches, ocean ridges, continental shelves, plateaus, faults, canyons, sand dunes, and ice caps.
1.) Describe how electrical circuits can be used to produce light, heat, sound, and magnetic fields.
• Identifying ways to use and conserve electrical energy
• Identifying characteristics of parallel and series circuits
• Classifying materials as conductors, nonconductors, and insulators of electricity and heat
• Identifying relationships among charge, current, and potential energy
• Identifying components of a circuit
Social Studies
1.) Identify historical and current economic, political, and geographic information about Alabama on thematic maps.
• Discussing patterns and types of migrations as they affect the environment, agriculture, economic development, and population changes in Alabama
2.) Describe cultures, governments, and economies of prehistoric and historic Native Americans in Alabama.
• Identifying locations of prehistoric and historic Native Americans in Alabama
• Describing types of prehistoric life in Alabama
• Identifying roles of archaeologists and paleontologists
3.) List reasons for European exploration and settlement in Alabama and the impact of Europeans on trade, health, land expansion, and tribal reorganization of Native American populations in Alabama.
• Locating European settlements in early Alabama
• Explaining reasons for conflicts between Europeans and Native Americans in Alabama from 1519 to 1840
• Identifying main causes, key people, and historical documents of the American Revolution and the new nation
• Naming social, political, and economic outcomes of the Creek Civil War and the Creek War in Alabama
• Identifying the impact of the Trail of Tears on Alabama's Native Americans
4.) Describe the relationship of the five geographic regions of Alabama to the movement of Alabama settlers during the early nineteenth century.
• Describing natural resources of Alabama
• Describing the natural environment of Alabama
• Describing human environments created by settlement
5.) Describe Alabama's entry into statehood, including Alabama's constitutions and the three branches of government.
• Explaining political and geographic reasons for changes in location of Alabama's state capital
• Identifying prominent political leaders during early statehood in Alabama
4th Nine Weeks
Character Education
15.) Generosity 16.) Punctuality 17.) Cleanliness 18.) Cheerfulness 19.) School pride
20.) Respect for the environment 21.) Patience
Technology
11.) Use digital tools to analyze authentic problems
3.) Identify common hardware and software problems.
• Determining basic troubleshooting strategies to correct hardware and software problems
7.) Explain the influence of technology on society.
Reading/Language Arts