Fourth Grade Curriculum
Living Organisms
•Classification of vertebrates and invertebrates in Michigan
• Food chains/web and the part different organismns play in the Michigan
forest
• Adaptations, defenses, and survival characteristics of organisms
•How humans affect the environment
•Basic living requirements of living organisms
Solar System
•Characteristics of sun, moon, earth
•How are seasons and day and night created
Weather
•Relationship of weather conditions and climate
•The atmosphere's characteristics
•Causes of weather and the changes that happen from season-to-season, and
longer
•Weather instruments used for forecasting
Inquiry
•Create graphs, charts, diagrams, and maps and make conclusions of
their meaning
Economics 
•Our economic system, a review of its parts, and how they exist together
