Fourth Grade Curriculum Map

These are bundles of core ideas from the Georgia Standards of Excellence for Fourth Grade related to an anchoring phenomenon.
This document is part of a framework that includes lessons and resources.
Instructional Weather and Moon Stars, Planets, and Moon Forecasting the Weather Role of Organisms and Light and Sound Force and Motion
Segment: Phases Flow of Energy
Estimated 4 week intro and then 7 weeks 7 weeks 7 weeks 4 weeks 7 weeks
Time All Year
Crosscutting ● Patterns ● Patterns ● Patterns ● Energy and Matter ● Energy and Matter ● Energy and Matter
Concepts ● Cause and Effect ● Systems and System Models ● Energy and Matter ● Structure and Function ● Cause and Effect
● Systems and System ● Scale, Proportion, and Quantity ● System and System
Models Models
Anchoring  What is the ● Where is the edge of the Solar ● What is Weather like in ● Eating on the Space Station ● Gazing at Earth's Light ● Small Rube Goldberg
Phenomenon International Space System? Space? ● Dessert in Space Show Machines
Station? ● SpaceX CRS-12 Launches to the ● NOAA's GOES-16 ● Light Language – look at ● Dream of a world
 International Space ISS Satellite Sends 1st Images picture of a reflection in without machines -
Station from Space water activity
Core Ideas  Cloud formation ● Technological advances for ● States of water ● Ecosystems ● Opaque, transparent, ● Balanced and
 Weather Instruments space ● Water cycle ● Food chains/ webs translucent unbalanced forces
● Stars ● Weather instruments ● Changes impacting ● Reflection ● Gravitational force
 Moon phases ● Planets ● Weather maps ecosystems ● Refraction ● Simple machines
● Moon Phases ● Cloud types ● Scarcity, extinction, ● Strength and speed of sound
● Earth’s orbit and tilt ● Weather and climate overabundance vibration
● Light refraction ● Communication device
Science and  Asking questions ● Asking questions ● Ask questions ● Asking questions and ● Asking questions ● Asking questions and
Engineering  Analyzing and ● Developing and using models ● Analyzing and defining problems ● Developing and using defining problems
Practices interpreting data ● Constructing explanations interpreting data ● Developing and using models ● Constructing an
● Engaging in argument from ● Constructing explanations models ● Planning and carrying out argument from evidence
 Constructing evidence ● Obtaining, evaluating, and ● Constructing explanations investigations ● Developing and using
explanations ● Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating and designing solutions ● Designing solutions models
 Obtaining, evaluating, communicating ● Developing and using ● Obtaining, evaluating, and ● Obtaining, evaluating, and ● Analyzing and
and communicating models communicating communicating interpreting data
 Developing and using ● Planning and carrying out ● Obtaining, evaluating,
models investigations and communication
GSE S4E2b; S4E4a, c S4E1a, b, c, d; S4E2a, b, c; S4E3a, b; S4E4a, b, c, d S4L1a, b, c, d S4P1a, b, c; S4P2a, b S4P3a, b, c
S4P1c

Georgia Department of Education

2017