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4th Grade Outcomes


Social Studies

• Types of community life

• History and development of the local state

• Relation of the state to its region nation, and the world

• World cultures

• Reasons for our laws

• Regions of the world

• Continents

• Time zones

• Earth’s resources

• Climatic regions of the world

• Map skills: longitude, latitude, scale

• Using a globe

Science

• Structure of plants

• Environment of the local region

• Biological organization

• Classification systems

• The insect world

• The reptilian world

• Plants and animals of the past

• Structure of plants

• Seeds

• Ecosystems

• Balance of nature

• Human body

• Weather’s influences

• Weather instruments

• Climate

• Cause of seasons

• Earth and its history

• Oceans and the hydrosphere

• Air and water pollution

• Magnets and electricity

• Light and color

• Solar system and the universe

• Living in space

• Scientific method and scientific inquiry

Language Arts

• Silent and oral reading

• Choral reading

• Listening skills

• Telephone skills

• Making and accepting simple social introductions

• Summarizing simple information

• Listening to literature

• Critical reading

• Short stories, chapter books, poetry, plays

• Spelling

• Increasing dictionary skills

• Cursive handwriting

• Simple outlining

• Writing letters and informal notes

• Written and oral book reports

• Creative writing

• Developing skills in locating information

• Increasing indexing skills

• Developing encyclopedia skills

• Utilizing parts of a newspaper

Health and Safety

• Personal and mental hygiene

• Dental health

• The body and its functions

• Skeletal and muscular systems

• Care and proper use of the body

• Principles of digestion

• Basic food groups

• Good nutrition habits

• Diseases

• Safety

• Substance abuse

Mathematics

• Reading and writing numbers

• Roman numerals to C

• Prime numbers less than 100

• Prime factoring

• Numeration systems

• Subsets

• Decimal and fraction equivalents

• Addition and subtraction facts to 7 places

• Multiplication and division facts to 144

• 1, 2, and 3-digit multiplication problems

• 2-and 3-digit dividend, 1-digit divisor problems

• Meaning of mixed numbers

• Finding simple averages

• Geometric concepts

• Customary and metric measurement

• Time to the second

• Problem-solving methods

• Charts and graphs