CKSci Grade 4 Student Reader Collection

Energy Transfer and Transformation engages Grade 4 students with the idea that whenever there is a change, there is at least one form of energy causing that change. Students investigate evidence of energy all around them—when they flip on a light switch, feel a car start to move, or hear a phone ring. The relationship between energy and change becomes clearer when students understand that energy is observed in different forms, such as sound, light, thermal energy (heat), and electrical energy.

Core Knowledge Science™ (CKSci) Student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, photographs, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. For each reader, a Teacher Guide is available separately. All materials may be downloaded and previewed in their entirety.

Investigating Waves introduces Grade 4 students engages students with waves and observable evidence that energy moves from one place to another. Waves produced in one place move to another and can cause a change. Students investigate some of the more common forms of waves around them: water waves, sound waves, and light waves.

Core Knowledge Science™ (CKSci) Student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, photographs, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. For each reader, a Teacher Guide is available separately. All materials may be downloaded and previewed in their entirety.

Structures and Functions of Living allows students to explore a key concept in biology, that structure is related to function. The structure of a bird’s wing is related to the function of flying. The bright color associated with a flower’s structure is related to the function of attracting insects for pollination as part of reproduction. All plants and animals have both external and internal structures that work together as systems that enable organisms to survive, grow, and reproduce.

Core Knowledge Science™ (CKSci) student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, photographs, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. For each reader, a Teacher Guide is available separately. All materials may be downloaded and previewed in their entirety.

Processes that Shape Earth introduces Grade 4 students to real-world examples and fundamental concepts that will be explored in greater depth in later grades. Students will learn about how changes on Earth’s surface affect people and will research the causes of geologic events that occur in their area, often due to large-scale system interactions on our planet. Students will investigate Earth’s layers: the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust. The ocean lies over much of the crust. Both land on the surface of Earth and the ocean’s solid seafloor have features such as mountains, volcanoes, and flat areas.

Core Knowledge Science™ (CKSci) student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, photographs, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. For each reader, a Teacher Guide is available separately. All materials may be downloaded and previewed in their entirety.

Using Natural Resources for Energy introduces Grade 4 students to real-world examples and fundamental concepts that will be explored in greater depth in later grades. Students will learn about how energy and fuels are derived from natural resources. Examples of renewable energy in this unit include wind, solar, and hydroelectric technologies. Nonrenewable energy sources include fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Students investigate cause-and-effect relationships between habitats and human use of resources during this unit. They explore how to communicate information about the costs and benefits of different types of energy resources.

Core Knowledge Science™ (CKSci) student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, photographs, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. For each reader, a Teacher Guide is available separately. All materials may be downloaded and previewed in their entirety.

Human Respiration and Circulation introduces Grade 3 students to real-world examples and fundamental concepts of forces, which will be explored in greater depth in later grades. Students will learn about observable effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on an object’s motion, describe and predict patterns of repeating motion, and explore how forces are associated with cause-and-effect relationships.

Core Knowledge Science™ (CKSci) Student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, photographs, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. For each reader, a Teacher Guide is available separately. All materials may be downloaded and previewed in their entirety.