GEMS Correlations with the Georgia State Science Standards
Grade Level Expectations and Benchmarks for Science
for Fourth Grade
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Strand: Inquiry
1. Inquiry , Process Skills, and Problem Solving
Standard: Asks questions, makes inferences and predictions, uses estimation
and measurement, uses evidence to construct explanations, makes sketches
and diagrams to explain ideas, organizes data into tables and charts
for interpretation, reads and interprets various types of graphs, formulates
simple hypotheses, identifies and controls a limited number of variables,
and designs a simple experiment.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Investigating Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats, On Sandy Shores,
Aquatic Habitats, Mystery Festival, Schoolyard Ecology, Crime Lab Chemistry,
Fingerprinting, Hot Water and Warm Homes, Microscopic Explorations,
Moons of Jupiter, Of Cabbages and Chemistry, Oobleck, Stories in Stone,
Vitamin C Testing
2. Reference Skills
Standard: Uses encyclopedias, science reference magazines, books
and other media to obtain information related to science concepts.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Investigating Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats, On Sandy Shores,
Aquatic Habitats, Mystery Festival, Schoolyard Ecology, Crime Lab Chemistry,
Fingerprinting, Hot Water and Warm Homes, Microscopic Explorations,
Moons of Jupiter, Of Cabbages and Chemistry, Oobleck, Stories in Stone,
Vitamin C Testing
3. Safety
Standard: Identifies and practices accepted safety procedures
in manipulating science materials and equipment.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Investigating Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats, On Sandy Shores,
Aquatic Habitats, Mystery Festival, Schoolyard Ecology, Crime Lab Chemistry,
Fingerprinting, Hot Water and Warm Homes, Microscopic Explorations,
Moons of Jupiter, Of Cabbages and Chemistry, Oobleck, Stories in Stone,
Vitamin C Testing
4. Activities/Tools
Standard: Actively engages in the learning process via hands-on/minds-on
science activities and experiences. Uses appropriate tools to collect
and analyze data and solve problems.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Investigating Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats, On Sandy Shores,
Aquatic Habitats, Mystery Festival, Schoolyard Ecology, Crime Lab Chemistry,
Fingerprinting, Hot Water and Warm Homes, Microscopic Explorations,
Moons of Jupiter, Of Cabbages and Chemistry, Oobleck, Stories in Stone,
Vitamin C Testing
Strand: Physical Science
7. Energy and Its Transformation: Magnetism and Electricity
Standard: Investigates materials that do or do not conduct electricity.
Tests a variety of materials to determine conductors and insulators.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Electric
Circuits
8. Energy and Its Transformation: Magnetism and Electricity
Standard: Distinguishes between static and current electricity.
Produces and identifies examples of static and current electricity such
as static cling and complete circuits.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Electric
Circuits
9. Energy and Its Transformation: Magnetism and Electricity
Standard: Demonstrates differences between open-closed circuits and
parallel-series circuits. Constructs examples of open and closed circuits
and parallel and series circuits with differing numbers of batteries
and bulbs.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Electric
Circuits
10. Energy and Its Transformation: Magnetism and Electricity
Standard: Recognizes sources and illustrates transmission and safe use
of electricity. Describes electrical sources to include chemical (battery),
mechanical (generator) and light (photoelectric cell). Constructs examples
of open and closed circuits using a variety of designs. Tests materials
to determine conductors and nonconductors (insulators).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Electric
Circuits
18. Energy and Its Transformations: Light and Color
Standard: Demonstrates how light travels and can be separated
into a visible spectrum. Produces a rainbow using a prism, water or
oil (refraction).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival
19. Energy and Its Transformations: Light and Color
Standard: Investigates the characteristics of light, its movement
and its action with objects. Demonstrates how to use mirrors to control
direction of light (reflection). Manipulates mirrors to demonstrate
and measure directions of light beams, angle of incidence and angle
of reflection. Observes the refractive behavior of light using lenses
(concave and convex), microscopes and telescopes. Distinguishes between
transparent, translucent, and opaque.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Microscopic Explorations
21. Energy and Its Transformations: Light and Color
Standard: Investigates the relationship of light, color and heat
absorption. Makes comparisons of heat absorption based on color of objects
(such as clothing or construction paper).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hot Water
and Warm Homes
22. Energy and Its Transformations: Light and Color
Standard: Describes the technological procedures/devices that
use light. Selects a topic and uses a variety of media resources to
investigate selected topics (laser, optical fiber technology, or infrared
devices).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Microscopic
Explorations
Strand: Life Science
23. Ecology: Cycles of Matter and Flow of Energy
Standard: Describes relationships in living communities, changes
that occur, and the impact of these changes. Constructs a model or diagram
of a food chain/food web. Describes the impact of an interruption in
the chain.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Terrarium
Habitats, On Sandy Shores, Aquatic Habitats, Schoolyard Ecology
24. Ecology: Cycles of Matter and Flow of Energy
Standard: Identifies how matter and energy do or do not cycle
in a ecosystem. Describes how matter cycles in a ecosystem (nutrients,
producers, consumers and decomposers) but energy must always be added.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Terrarium
Habitats, Aquatic Habitats
25. Ecology: Cycles of Matter and Flow of Energy
Standard: Discusses causes and possible solutions for pollution.
Identifies types of pollution, such as air pollution, water pollution
and noise pollution, and discusses how overpopulation contributes to
pollution. Formulates ideas for solutions to existing pollution problems.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: On Sandy
Shores, Hot Water and Warm Homes
26. Ecology: Cycles of Matter and Flow of Energy
Standard: Discusses the importance of recycling and identifies examples
of recycled products. Identifies and collects examples of materials
that can be reused or recycled and those that cannot. Shows examples
of products and materials that are biodegradable and those that are
non-biodegradable.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: On Sandy
Shores, Hot Water and Warm Homes
Strand: Earth/Space Science
28. Earth Processes: Weather and Climate
Standard: Demonstrates and describes the water cycle and the role
of evaporation, precipitation and condensation. Examines the process
of change as it relates to water in the atmosphere.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: On Sandy
Shores
34. Space: Astronomy
Standard: Compares and contrasts the Earth and other planets of
our solar system. Constructs a model of the earth/moon system and the
solar system. Observes a model of the solar system and describes characteristics
of the sun and planets.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Moons
of Jupiter
35. Space: Astronomy
Standard: Illustrates the relative size and distance of planets
in our solar systems. Constructs a scale model of the sun and its nine
planets.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Moons
of Jupiter
36. Space: Astronomy
Standard: Compares characteristics (size, portion, composition) of celestial
bodies such as stars, planets, comets, moons and meteors.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Moons
of Jupiter
38. Space: Astronomy
Standard: Identifies different technological devices and resources
that help us study the universe. Investigates how telescopes, satellites
sensors and online resources help us understand our universe.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Moons
of Jupiter, Oobleck
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