From asking questions and predicting outcomes about how energy changes when objects collide to using a model to describe how animals receive and process information, our engaging kits support Next Generation Science Standards* for fourth grade! The set includes all 3 kits, each with 4 double-sided, 8 1/2" x 11" Investigation cards that encourage critical and scientific thinking, materials for 4 investigations and 4 Connection cards for making real-world connections. Plus, you get a guide with detailed lesson plans, investigation tips, possible solutions and much more! Each kit also available separately.

Develops skills in:
• Using evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object
• Making observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat and electric currents
• Asking questions and predicting outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide
• Applying scientific ideas to design, test and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another
• Identifying evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time
• Making observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind or vegetation
• Analyzing and interpreting data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features
• Constructing an argument that animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior and reproduction
• Using a model to describe how animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain and respond to the information in different ways

*NGSS is a registered trademark of Achieve. Neither Achieve nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of these products and do not endorse them.