Grade: 4
Math
5/4
Aim: Students will solve problems involving fractions by using various strategies.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Brain builder p. 475 test 8, #15
* Readiness activity: t.e. text p. 290
* Problem-solving: text p. 290 #1-3
5/5
Aim: Students will continue to solve problems using various strategies.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Reducing fractions to simplest form
* Converting improper fractions and mixed numbers
* Problem solving: text p. 291 #4-6
5/6
Aim: Students will express ratios as percents and percents as fractions.
Vocabulary: percent ratio
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Review comparing fractions< text p. 291 #11-15
* Ratio and percent< text p. 293 #1-14
3. Homework: text p. 291 #9-12
5/7
Aim: Students will review fraction concepts
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Problem-solving: t.e. text p. 293
* smartboard activity: sadlier-oxford.com/grade 4/fractions
5/8
Test: Chapter 8 Fraction Concepts
Grade: 4
SCIENCE
5/4
Aim: Students will investigate and infer reasons organisms can become extinct.
Vocabulary: extinct endangered
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Read/discuss text p. a34
* Why do organisms become extinct
* Why do you think so many organisms no longer exist?
* How do people contribute to the extinction of plants and animals?
3. Homework: workbook p. 21
5/5
Aim: Students will explore how skeletons are used to help compare organisms.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* Lab activity:How ca we use skeletons to compare organisms?
Activity workbook p. 13-15
5/6
Aim: Students will review organisms of the past.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* lesson review: text p. a35 questions #1-5
* workbook p. 17-18
5/7
TEST: Organisms of the Past (rescheduled for Monday 5/11)
5/8
Aim: Students will observe and identify characteristics of animals.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: read/discuss: text p. b6-b7
-How are animals alike? -Describe a food chain.
-Explain the flow of energy through a food chain.
-What role do decomposers play in this food chain?
-Do we get our energy from the Sun? If so, how?
