LAFS.4.W.4.10Archived Standard

This lesson should take place once a student is familiar with the scientific method and has previously participated in various science experiments. In this lesson, the students will work in small groups to design and carry out an experiment using common classroom materials.

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In this lesson, students will brainstorm survival tips for future fourth graders and incorporate these tips into a "how-to" essay. Students will use an online tool for creating an outline, and a graphic organizer and proofreading checklist are also included to help students edit their writing. A rubric is provided in this resource.

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This is a 5E lesson which allows students to explore the differences between learned and inherited behaviors in animals. The lesson includes engaging videos of animals doing incredible things.

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Students will help an architect find the area of each room in a celebrity home and then determine the best location to build the home based on qualitative data about the locations.

Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.

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Students will explore through fiction/nonfiction texts and hands-on activities that materials can be altered to change some of their properties. In an extension lesson, students can also explore how other forms of energy (besides electricity) can be used to cook food.

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Strategically Structured presents the five text structures to fourth grade students (description, sequence, compare/contrast, cause/effect, and problem/solution). Students are able to identify key words that categorize each text structure, create their own graphic organizers and pieces of writing for each text structure, and identify examples and non-examples of each text structure. Students will be engaged with interactive technology throughout this lesson and will get plenty of opportunities to write their own non-fiction pieces using the different text structures. Fourth grade science and social studies content are presented in the text structure scenario examples.

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In this lesson, students will use ears of corn to write five descriptive paragraphs using the 5 senses. This lesson could be a precursor to Lesson 4: Crazy about Corn (Narrative writing).

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This lesson will help students review the story elements of fairy tales, using the original version of Cinderella. In subsequent lessons they will be using this information to compare and contrast different multicultural versions of Cinderella.

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For this lesson, students will be able to improve their writing pre-planning skills by generating ideas through brainstorming and group discussion, particularly as it relates to using more descriptive details.

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This is the third lesson in a fourth grade unit on classification and categorization. Students will use an outline to create a research report. The additional lessons in the unit are attached as related resources.

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Explore the adventures of the MacIvey family with A Land Remembered Student Edition, Volume 1. Tag along as the family overcomes tragedy in the Florida wilderness while learning to use evidence in the text to support thinking. In this lesson students will learn about what life was like for pioneers in Florida. Students will relate to the characters by writing journal entries from a character's point of view.

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In this lesson, students will learn how to use their senses to write more descriptively. The teacher will read Verdi by Jannell Cannon to the students and ask them to identify sensory details the author uses in the text. With teacher support, students will be given a cookie and will create a descriptive paragraph about it. Independently, students will move to various stations in the classroom to examine mystery objects hidden in a bag. They will use their senses to describe the objects in the bag. Students will then select one object to write a descriptive paragraph about.

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In this resource, students will be introduced to the concepts of simile and metaphor. Throughout guided and independent practice, they will create their own similes and metaphors inspired by pictures of ocean animals. Students will use templates to create a class book on the ocean that features similes and metaphors, along with student created illustrations, to showcase those comparisons.

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