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  • Judge Sylvania Woods Elementary School
  • Glenarden, MD
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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This year, my fourth grade STEAM students will be actively engaged in a comprehensive science program as they build an understanding to make sense of the natural world through phenomenon-based instruction. They will be interacting with content from different topics to include Earth and Space Science, Life Science, Physical Science and Engineering Design, and Disciplinary Core Ideas from the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). As fourth graders, they will be able to use a model of waves to describe patterns of waves in terms of amplitude and wavelength, and that waves can cause objects to move. They are expected to develop an understanding of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation. They will apply their knowledge of natural Earth processes to generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of such processes on humans. In order to describe patterns of Earth’s features, my students will analyze and interpret data from maps. Fourth grade STEAM students are expected to develop an understanding that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. By developing a model, they will describe that an object can be seen when light reflected from its surface enters the eye. As the year progresses, my students will be able to use evidence to construct an explanation of the relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of that object. They are expected to develop an understanding that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents or from object to object through collisions. My students will apply their understanding of energy to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another. 

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This year, my fourth grade STEAM students will be actively engaged in a comprehensive science program as they build an understanding to make sense of the natural world through phenomenon-based instruction. They will be interacting with content from different topics to include Earth and Space Science, Life Science, Physical Science and Engineering Design, and Disciplinary Core Ideas from the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). As fourth graders, they will be able to use a model of waves to describe patterns of waves in terms of amplitude and wavelength, and that waves can cause objects to move. They are expected to develop an understanding of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation. They will apply their knowledge of natural Earth processes to generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of such processes on humans. In order to describe patterns of Earth’s features, my students will analyze and interpret data from maps. Fourth grade STEAM students are expected to develop an understanding that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. By developing a model, they will describe that an object can be seen when light reflected from its surface enters the eye. As the year progresses, my students will be able to use evidence to construct an explanation of the relationship between the speed of an object and the energy of that object. They are expected to develop an understanding that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents or from object to object through collisions. My students will apply their understanding of energy to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another. 

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