4th Grade Curriculum and Goals

Language Arts

                   Vocabulary                          Drawing Conclusions

                                Main Idea                              Cause and Effect

                                Comprehension                   Story Elements

                                Compare and Contrast       Different Genres

                                Author's Purpose                 Summarizing

                                Generalizing                         Parts of Speech

                                Subjects and Predicates     Capitilization

                                Punctuation                          Complete Sentences

                                Combining Sentences        Writing (Various types)

                                Using Various Resources   Spelling

                                Cursive Handwriting

Math

                                Place Value                           Problem Solving

                                Estimating and Rounding Multiplication

                                Division                                 Fractions

                                Decimals                                Measurement

                                Money                                    Geometry

                                Graphs                                   Probability

Social Studies

                                Geography (Tennessee, U.S., and World)

                                Various types of maps

                                U.S. History from the Ice Age to the Civil War

                                Government

                                Citizenship in the United States

                                Economics

                                Using charts, graphs, tables, maps, etc. as resources

Science

                                Scientific Method                      Interpreting Data

                                Using Various Resources         Plants and Animals

                                Ecosystems                                  Adaptations

                                Life Cycles                                  Energy

                                States of Matter                          Force and Motion

                                Weather                                       Earth

                                Ecology                                        Recycling

                                Solar System                               Technology

                                Magnets                                       Simple Machines