Matter and Energy
Force, Motion, and Energy
Earth Science
Organisms and Environment
3rd and 4th Grade
100

INCS

What are the magnetic metals: 

Iron, Nickle, Cobalt, Steel

100

CMELTS

What are forms of energy?

What are Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Thermal, and Sound?

100

Sedimentary Rock formation process.

What is Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, Compaction, and Cementation?

100

Positive and negative human impacts.

Negative: deforestation, overgrazing, construction, pollution, overhunting, overfishing, invasive species etc.

Positive: Planting trees, nature preserve, nature bridge for animals, beach clean up, disposing of harmful materials properly etc. 

100

The water cycle

What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?

What is runoff, accumulation, and transpiration?

200

Define a Mixture.

Define a Solution.

What is two or more substances mixed together where non dissolve/all maintain physical properties?

What is two or more substances mixed together where one dissolves and loses some physical properties?

200

Energy transformation of a ceiling fan.

What is electrical to mechanical?

200

Order of the planets.

What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?

200

Producer, Consumer, and Decomposer.

What is makes energy from the sun (plants), eats to get energy, and breaks down dead decaying plans and animals. 

200

Causes changes in motion.

What is a push or a pull?

300
The 4 changes of matter

What are meting, freezing, evaporation and condensation?

300

Light behavior of reflection, refraction, and absorption. 

What is bouncing back, bending, and soaking in?

300

The cause of day and night.

What is the earth rotating on its axis once every 24 hours causing the apparent motion of the sun across the sky?

300

Structure and Function of a desert cactus.

Structures and functions of a penguin.

What are spines for protection?

What is blubber for warmth?

(answers may vary)

300

Rapid changes to Earths surface.

What are landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes?

400

Define the term relative density. 

What is less dense floats and more dense sinks?

400

Balanced forces.

Unbalanced forces.

What is does NOT cause motion?

What is DOES cause motion?

400

Example of a landform and how it forms.

Answers will vary. Teacher decision of correctness. 

400

Ecosystem.

What is an interaction between all living and nonliving things in an environment? 

400

Complete vs Incomplete Metamorphosis.

What is 4 stages and 3 stages?

What is does not look like the adult and does look like the adult?

500

Examples of conductors.

Examples of insulators.

What are copper, paperclip, metal?

What are glass, plastic, fabric, wood?

500

Closed circuit.

Open circuit.

What is a complete circuit that allows energy to flow?

What is an incomplete circuit that does not allow energy to flow?

500

Fossil Fuels and their Formation.

What are coal, oil, petroleum, and natural gas?

What are heat and pressure from deposition, compaction, and cementation?

500

Biotic vs Abiotic

What is living or once living?

What is nonliving, and completely decayed? 

500

Renewable and Nonrenewable resources.

What are wind, water, sunlight, plants, and animal?

What are coal, oil, and natural gas? (fossil fuels)

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