Fourth Grade Scope and Sequence

Grade 4 Curriculum Guide Social Studies * Types of community life * History and development of the local state * Relation of the state to its region, nation, and the world * World cultures * Reasons for our laws * Regions of the world * Continents * Time zones * Earth's resources * Climatic regions of the world * Map skills: longitude, latitude, scale * Using a globe Science * Structure of plants * Environment of the local region * Biological organization * Classification systems * The insect world * The reptilian world * Plants and animals of the past * Structure of plants * Seeds * Ecosystems * Balance of nature * Human body * Weather's influences * Weather instruments * Climate * Cause of seasons * Earth and its history * Oceans and the hydrosphere * Air and water pollution * Magnets and electricity * Light and color * Solar system and the universe * Living in space * Scientific method and scientific inquiry Language Arts * Silent and oral reading * Choral reading * Listening skills * Telephone skills * Making and accepting simple social introductions * Summarizing simple information * Listening to literature * Critical reading * Short stories, chapter books, poetry, plays * Spelling * Increasing dictionary skills * Cursive handwriting * Simple outlining * Writing letters and informal notes * Written and oral book reports * Creative writing * Developing skills in locating information * Increasing indexing skills * Developing encyclopedia skills * Utilizing parts of a newspaper Health and Safety * Personal and mental hygiene * Dental health * The body and its functions * Skeletal and muscular systems * Care and proper use of the body * Principles of digestion * Basic food groups * Good nutrition habits * Diseases * Safety * Substance abuse Mathematics * Reading and writing numbers * Roman numerals to C * Prime numbers less than 100 * Prime factoring * Numeration systems * Subsets * Decimal and fraction equivalents * Addition and subtraction facts to 7 places * Multiplication and division facts to 144 * 1-, 2-, and 3-digit multiplication problems * 2- and 3-digit dividend, 1-digit divisor problems * Meaning of mixed numbers * Finding simple averages * Geometric concepts * Customary and metric measurement * Time to the second * Problem-solving methods * Charts and graphs