Standards
Utah Fourth Grade Science:
STANDARD II: Students will understand that the elements of weather can be observed, measured, and recorded to make predictions and determine simple weather patterns.
Objective 1: Observe, measure, and record the basic elements of weather.
Objective 2: Interpret recorded weather data for simple patterns.
Objective 3: Evaluate weather predictions based upon observational data.
Utah Fourth Grade Langauge Arts:
Standard I (Oral Language): Students develop language for the purpose of effectively communicating through listening, speaking, viewing, and presenting.
Objective 2: Develop language through viewing media and presenting.
a. Identify specific purpose(s) for viewing media (i.e., to identify main idea and details, togain information, distinguish between fiction/nonfiction, distinguish between fact/opinion,form an opinion, determine presentation’s accuracy).
b. Use a variety of formats in presenting with various forms of media (e.g., pictures, posters, charts, ads, newspapers, graphs, videos, slide shows).
STANDARD VIII (Writing): Students write daily to communicate effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Objective 1: Prepare to write by gathering and organizing information and ideas (pre-writing).
a. Generate ideas for writing by reading, discussing, researching, and reflecting on personal experiences.
b. Select and narrow a topic from generated ideas.
c. Identify audience, purpose, form for writing.
d. Use a variety of graphic organizers to organize information.
Utah Fourth Grade Mathematics:
STANDARD V: Students will interpret and organize collected data to make predictions,
answer questions, and describe basic concepts of probability.
Objective 1: Collect, organize, and display data to answer questions.
a. Identify a question that can be answered by collecting data.
b. Collect, read, and interpret data from tables, graphs, charts, surveys, and observations.
c. Represent data using frequency tables, bar graphs, line plots, and stem and leaf plots.
d. Identify and distinguish between clusters and outliers of a data set.