Alberta - Grade 4 Full Year Bundle - Math - Science - Social Studies

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Grade 4 - Alberta Math Curriculum - NEW 2022 CURRICULUM

Strand 1 - Number (Number Sense)

Concepts that are covered:

• Place value within 100 000
• Place value of decimal numbers, including tenths and hundredths
• Express numbers, including decimal numbers, using words and numerals
• Expanded form of natural numbers and decimal numbers
• Decimal notation in English and French
• Rounding numbers, including to the nearest tenth
• Compare and order numbers, including decimal numbers
• Compare cents (decimal numbers) to dollars (whole numbers)
• Add and subtract numbers within 10 000
• Add and subtract decimal numbers to hundredths
• Assess the reasonableness of a sum or difference using estimation
• Adding and subtracting money amounts (decimal numbers)
• Determining factors of a number within 100
• Describe a number as prime or composite
• Determine the first five multiples of a given number within 100
• Recognize the greatest common factor of two numbers within 100
• Multiplication and division facts using numbers to 12
• Patterns in multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, 1000
• Multiply and divide 3-digit natural numbers by 1-digit natural numbers using standard algorithms
• Divide and express a quotient with or without a remainder
• Investigate strategies for estimation of products and quotients
• Assess the reasonableness of a product or quotient using estimation
• Model equivalent fractions by partitioning a whole
• Compare and order fractions
• Simplify fractions
• Relate fractions to decimals
• Compare percentages within 100
• Express relationship between fractions, decimals, and percent
• 4 Unit tests
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand 2 - Patterns and Algebra

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Fibonacci sequence (patterns)
• Increasing and decreasing sequences (patterns)
• Creating increasing and decreasing sequences
• Representing a concrete or pictorial sequence using numbers
• Table of values
• Arithmetic sequences – addition and subtraction
• Geometric sequences – multiplication
• Describing a sequence using a pattern rule
• Initial value of a pattern and constant change
• Determining the missing value in different sequences using all operations
• What are equations?
• What are expressions? Differences between equations and expressions
• Evaluating expressions
• Creating multiple expressions that represent the same number
• Writing equations that represent a situation
• Writing expressions that represent a situation
• Preservation of equality
• Finding the unknown number in an equation
• Solving word problems using equations to represent the problem
• 2 Unit Tests
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand 3 - Geometry, Measurement and Time

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Polygons
• Parallel and perpendicular lines in polygons
• Angles in polygons
• Measuring acute, obtuse, and right angles
• Constructing acute, obtuse, and right angles
• Estimating angles based on referents
• Acute, obtuse, and right triangles
• Scalene, isosceles, and equilateral triangles
• Supplementary and complementary angles
• Quadrilaterals – squares, rectangles, parallelograms, trapezoids, and rhombuses
• Transformations – rotations, reflections, and translations
• Modelling area by superimposing shapes
• Determining area of Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit) designs
• Measuring area using non-standard units
• Measuring area using standard units – square centimetres
• Estimating area using referents
• Calculating area using multiplication
• Measuring angles using a protractor
• Relate angles to fractions
• Relate durations of 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, and 45 minutes to fractions of a circle
• Express time of day using fractions – quarter to, quarter after, half past
• Determine elapsed time (duration) of an event
• Convert between hours, minutes, and seconds
• Solve word problems involving duration
• 4 Unit Tests
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand 4 - Statistics

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is a statistical question?
• Creating statistical questions to investigate
• The statistical problem-solving process
• What the scale of a graph is
• How to determine an appropriate scale
• Reading different graphs with the same data but different scales
• The effects scale has on graphs
• When to use each type of graph – dot plot, bar graph, pictograph
• The same data represented in each of the different graphs – dot plot, bar graph, pictograph
• Interpret data in different types of graphs
• Complete the statistical problem-solving process
• Create a statistical question, collect data, represent the data using an appropriate graph, and interpret the data
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Alberta - Grade 4 Science Curriculum - NEW 2023 CURRICULUM

Strand 1 - Matter: Waste

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is waste?
• Plant and animal waste
• Composting
• Experiment – Pop Bottle Composter
• Coding activity – writing code for a composting activity
• Activity – Is it recyclable waste?
• Types of packaging
• STEM Assignment – Product Packaging Machine
• Decreasing waste – the Three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
• Activity – Building a recycled bird feeder
• Beyond the 3 R’s – Repair, Refuse, Regift, Rot/Recover
• Activity – repurposing waste to make something useful
• Activity – selling something using an online marketplace
• Diagram – How long does garbage take to decompose?
• The journey of recycled glass, metal, paper, and plastic
• STEM Assignment – a machine that sorts recycling
• Consumerism and waste
• Waste management issues – what happens with our waste?
• Benefits and drawbacks of using landfills
• Benefits and drawbacks of incinerating waste
• Life of a consumer product – flowchart example
• Activity – creating a flowchart of what happens to consumer products
• Story – The Journey of Robo The Robot
• Toxic waste
• Flammable, corrosive, and reactive waste
• Medical waste – proper disposal
• Safety symbols of different materials
• Explosive, compressed gas, irritant, flammable, corrosive, oxidating, toxic, etc.
• Scavenger hunt – finding products with different safety symbols
• Electronic waste (E-Waste)
• Coding activity – sorting E-Waste
• Classifying types of waste – making a chart
• Wasted materials in the classroom
• Making a plan to reduce waste in the class
• Activity – making a personal plan to reduce waste
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand 2 - Energy: Non-Contact Forces

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What are forces?
• Contact versus non-contact forces
• Gravity – a pulling non-contact force
• Experiment – testing the force of gravity
• Experiment – egg drop test
• Research activity – Sir Isaac Newton
• Electrostatic forces
• Static electricity – non-contact force
• Experiment – Magic Spoon (non-contact force in action)
• Experiment – Bending Water (non-contact force in action)
• Experiment – Rolling a Can (non-contact force in action)
• Dangers of static electricity
• Magnetic force
• Activity – will the magnets attract or repel?
• Experiment – making a magnetic car
• Maglev Cars – are magnetic cars the future?
• Coding activity – Maglev Cars
• Is the material magnetic? Yes or no?
• Experiment – testing the magnetic strength at different distances
• Experiment – testing if a magnet works through different materials
• Magnetizing objects – striking or rubbing
• Experiment – magnetizing a nail
• How a compass works – magnetic field
• Harmful effects of magnets
• Devices that use non-contact forces
• Coding activity – bank cards and magnets
• Researching the history of bank cards
• How hard drives work – using magnets
• Coding activity – hard drives and binary code
• Photocopiers using static electricity
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand 3 – Earth Systems

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What are the Earth’s systems? The Four Spheres
• The lithosphere – outer layer of Earth
• The rock cycle – 3 types of rocks: igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary
• Experiment – creating a model of the rock cycle
• Coding activity - underground drones
• The atmosphere – Earth’s invisible shield
• The layers of the atmosphere
• Coding activity – layers of atmosphere program
• Everything living needs air
• What is the hydrosphere?
• Cryosphere – glaciers
• All living things need water
• Bodies of water – plants and animals living in each
• Plant profile – cactus plant needs of water
• What is the biosphere?
• Survival needs of living things
• What is biodiversity?
• Longitudinal biodiversity gradient – more life at the equator
• Experiment – effects of the sun on different surfaces
• Sun’s energy – effects on islands, deserts, forests, and fields
• Regions of Canada – mapping activity
• Natural resources in Canada and its regions
• Natural resources in Alberta
• Resource towns in Alberta
• Interconnections between Earth’s spheres
• Changes in one sphere affecting others
• Ways to conserve Earth’s systems
• How humans affect water – water pollution
• Experiment – making a water filter
• STEM and coding activity – water testing invention
• Writing code – Calgary’s water services
• Water conservation
• Personal water consumption survey
• How the Indigenous use water – honour and sacred use
• Parks Canada and heritage sites in Alberta
• How Indigenous groups work with Parks Canada
• How you can help habitats and Earth’s systems
• Role play activity – humans destroying habitats
• Making an infographic – protecting Earth’s systems
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand 4: Living Systems

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Organisms, species, and communities
• Scavenger hunt – finding plant organisms in your area
• How we sort living things
• Classifying common plants – shrubs, trees, creepers, climbers, herbs
• Classifying animals – vertebrates and invertebrates
• Vertebrates – mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds
• Invertebrates – insects, worms, and spiders
• External body parts affect our movement – locomotion
• Animal tracks – feet of animals
• Experiment – making an animal track
• Coding assignment – designing and coding an animal tracking device
• Adaptations - how organisms are designed to function in their environment
• Beaks of different finches – digging beaks, crushing beaks, grabbing beaks
• How frogs live on land with strong legs and tadpoles live in water with tails
• Desert habitat – plants and animals that survive there
• Desert plants and animals and their external structures
• Grassland habitat – plants and animals and their body parts
• Carnivore animals and their external structures (claws, teeth, jaws, etc.)
• Research activity – learning more about an animal and its body parts
• External structures of plants – stem, flower, seeds, roots, leaves
• Differences between bulb plants and seed plants
• Differences in plant structures – needles versus leaves
• Plants responding to light – phototropism
• Experiment – demonstrating phototropism
• Plants responding to touch – Venus Fly Trap
• Plants responding to water – transpiration, photosynthesis, deep roots
• Plants responding to gravity – growing against gravity/with gravity and thick roots
• Plants responding to temperature – transpiration, dormancy, etc.
• Experiment – how seeds respond to different environments
• Animal organs and senses
• Super hearing animals
• Echolocation – dolphins and bats
• Infrared sensing animals – mosquitos and vampire bats
• UV sensing animals – bees and hummingbirds
• Magnetoreception – animals with internal senses for magnetism
• Writing code – how animals respond
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Strand 5 - Space Unit

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is the universe?
• Our solar system – size, structure, and age
• Diagram of our solar system
• Exploring objects in space – moons, planets, stars, galaxies
• What are moons?
• Research activity – moons in our solar system
• Planetary systems in space - TRAPPIST-1
• Experiment – making a galaxy in a bottle
• Viewing space at night versus during the day
• Technologies for viewing space – telescope, binoculars, and planetariums
• Activity – making binoculars
• Hubble telescope
• Viewing the Sun safely
• Experiment – making a pinhole projector to view the Sun
• Celestial objects in the night sky
• What are constellations?
• Earth’s movement – rotation versus revolution
• How the Earth’s movement affects the constellations we see
• Experiment – creating a model of Earth’s movement
• The North Star - Polaris and Orion (star in the south)
• Research activity – studying constellations
• Experiment – creating constellations using a Geoboard
• Indigenous constellation story – Great Bear Hunt
• Coding activity – controlling the Hubble Telescope
• STEM Assignment – designing a space telescope
• Coding a space telescope
• Measuring time using the Moon
• Lunar Calendars – use for Indigenous groups
• Phases of the Moon
• Experiment – making a cookie model of the phases of the moon
• Cree and Blackfoot using the Lunar Calendar
• Story – Little Bear and the Lunar Calendar
• Haida Lunar Cycle
• Haida Teachings – The Sun and the Moon
• Cree Story – Wesakechak and the creation story of the Sun and Moon
• What is the Gregorian System?
• Comparing calendars: Lunar Calendar versus Gregorian Calendar
• Coding activity – Paper Gregorian Code Wheel
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Alberta Social Studies Grade 4 Curriculum

4.1 - A Sense of the Land

• Key Terms
• Map of Canada
• Capital Cities of Canada
• Cardinal Directions
• What are Landforms?
• Landform – Mountains
• Mountains – Questions
• Landform – Hills
• Landform – Valleys
• Landform – Glaciers
• Natural Resources
• Natural Resources – Questions
• Alberta’s Natural Regions
• Rocky Mountain Natural Region
• Rocky Mountain Natural Region – Questions
• Grassland Natural Region
• Grassland Natural Region – Questions
• Parkland Natural Region
• Parkland Natural Region – Questions
• Foothills Natural Region
• Foothills Natural Region – Questions
• Boreal Forest Natural Region
• Boreal Forest Natural Region – Questions
• Canadian Shield Natural Region
• Canadian Shield Natural Region – Questions
• Alberta’s Provincial Parks
• Alberta’s Provincial Parks – Questions
• Research – Alberta’s Provincial Parks
• Rocks and Fossils
• Fossils in Alberta
• Fossils in Alberta – Questions
• The Royal Tyrrell Museum and Dinosaur Park
• Energy – Natural Resources
• Energy – Natural Resources – Questions
• Renewable vs Non-Renewable Energy
• Consequences of Energy Use
• Conservation of Energy
• Conservation of Energy – Questions
• How Albertans Use Their Land
• How Albertans Use Their Land – Questions
• Resource Towns in Alberta
• Activities – Alberta: A Sense of the Land
• Unit Test – Alberta: A Sense of the Land

4.2 - The Stories, Histories and Peoples of Alberta

• Key Terms
• Canada in the Early 1800’s
• First Nations Communities
• First Nations Communities in Alberta
• First Nations Communities – Questions
• Blackfoot First Nation Community
• The Importance of the Buffalo
• Cree First Nation Community
• Dene First Nation Community
• Dunne-za First Nation Community
• Tsuu T’ina First Nation
• Nakoda First Nation
• Wigwam Shelter
• Fur Trade
• Francophone Roots in Alberta
• Fur Trade Voyageurs
• Explorer: Simon Fraser
• Research Activity - Explorers
• Hudson’s Bay Company
• Hudson’s Bay Company.
• Trading Posts
• Trade: European & First People
• The Metis Culture
• The Metis Culture – Questions
• The Metis – Daily Life
• The Metis – Daily Life Questions
• The Metis Nation of Alberta Association
• Missionaries Building Communities
• Missionaries Building Communities - Questions
• British North America Act
• Canada Expansion
• Westward Expansion
• Life in the West
• North-West Mounted Police
• Immigration – Push/Pull Factors
• British Communities Growing in Alberta
• Life in Alberta in the 1800s
• Rural vs Urban Communities
• Rural vs Urban Communities
• Activities – History of Alberta
• Unit Test – History of Alberta

4.3 - Celebrations and Challenges

• Key Terms
• Confederation
• Why Did Alberta Join Confederation?
• Why Did Alberta Join Confederation – Questions
• Alberta and Saskatchewan Join Confederation
• Alberta and Saskatchewan – Questions
• Drought of the 19030s
• Discovery of Oil
• Job Industries in Alberta
• Job Industries in Alberta – Questions
• Changes in Alberta After 1905
• Changes in Alberta After 1905 – Questions
• Changing First Nation Communities
• Multiculturalism in Alberta
• History of Francophones in Alberta
• Keeping Francophone Culture Strong
• Celebrating Alberta’s History – Museums
• Celebrating Alberta’s History – Heritage Site
• Celebrating Alberta’s History – Heritage Site – Questions
• What’s in the Name?
• Strengthening Alberta’s Diversity – Art, Music, and Stories
• Art, Music, and Stories in Alberta – Questions
• Collective Identity – Belonging to Alberta
• Festivals, Fairs, and Rodeos
• Seasonal Activities in Alberta
• Seasonal Activities in Alberta – Questions
• Climate in Alberta Affecting Activities
• Recreation and Tourism in Alberta
• Recreation and Tourism in Alberta – Questions
• Tourism vs the Environment
• Alberta – Celebrations and Challenges
• Unit Test – Celebrations and Challenges

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