4th Grade Semester Course w/ Engineering Focus (Part 2 of 4) 9-week Science Semester Course | w/ Report Card

[2nd of four 9-week sessions]
This course takes a modified, Engineering approach to 4th Grade Science. It offers content that is typically taught during the second 9-weeks in a traditional 4th grade science class. The students will take an in-depth look at Energy and Speed from an Engineering perspective. The following topics will be discussed:
Week 1 - Energy 
Week 2 - Energy Transfer
Week 3 - Energy & Speed
Week 4 - Electric currents
Week 5 - Engineering Project
Week 6 - Heat, and Sound & Light Reflection
Week 7 - Energy & Collisions
Week 8 - Energy & Collisions Lab
Week 9 - Natural resources & the Environment

The students will learn that that energy can be transferred between objects in a variety of ways. The students will learn how the speed of an object is related to the energy of that object. The students will learn that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents or from object to object through collisions. 

Different modes of instruction will be used. The students will be taught using pictures, video clips, slides, discussions, lecture, independent reading, and open-ended questions. Students will learn about Natural resources & the Environment. This section will be taught using pictures, video clips, slides, discussions, lecture, independent reading, and open-ended questions. The students will learn how the various types of natural resources can benefit the environment. They will design a new way that natural resources can benefit the environment. This will be taught using pictures, video clips, slides, discussions, lecture, independent reading, and open-ended questions. The students require the 3rd grade science course. The third 9-weeks course will pick up where this course leaves off.