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What children usually learn in Grade 4

What the year usually covers, subject by subject, in our own words from the curriculum you choose, with games that practise it.

Curriculum: United States · Ontario · British Columbia · England

Math

  • Place value to a million, and rounding large numbers 4.NBT
  • Multiplying larger numbers, and dividing by a one-digit number 4.NBT
  • Factors, multiples and number patterns 4.OA
  • Fractions that are the same amount, adding fractions with the same bottom number, and decimals to hundredths 4.NF
  • Lines, angles measured in degrees, and lines of symmetry 4.MD, 4.G
  • Changing between units of measure, and area and perimeter problems 4.MD
  • Explaining why an answer makes sense, and finding the mistake in one that does not Mathematical Practice 3

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Reading

  • The theme of a story, poem or play, and summing it up RL.4.2
  • Saying what a text means with details from it, including what it does not say outright RL.4.1
  • Explaining events or ideas in an information text, and how it is organised RI.4.3, RI.4.5
  • Writing opinions, explanations and stories in clear paragraphs W.4.1 to W.4.3
  • Short research projects on one topic W.4.7
  • Greek and Latin word parts, and similes and metaphors L.4.4, L.4.5

Practise it with

Science

  • Energy in speed, light, heat, sound and electricity, and passing it on 4-PS3
  • Waves, and sending messages with patterns 4-PS4
  • How the parts of plants and animals help them live, and how the senses work 4-LS1
  • Rocks and fossils, weathering and erosion, and maps of the land 4-ESS1, 4-ESS2
  • Where energy comes from, and natural hazards 4-ESS3

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Geography

  • Their country's states or provinces, their shapes and their neighbours D2.Geo, 3-5
  • Landforms and natural resources across their country D2.Geo, 3-5
  • Why people moved into and across their country D2.Geo, 3-5
  • Climate across a country, and how it shapes farming and towns D2.Geo, 3-5
  • Latitude and longitude on a map D2.Geo, 3-5

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History

  • Their state's or region's history: first peoples, newcomers and change D2.His, 3-5
  • Comparing two sources about one event D2.His, 3-5
  • Causes and consequences of change in their region D2.His, 3-5
  • BCE and CE, and centuries D2.His, 3-5
  • Telling about the past for a reader, with evidence D2.His, 3-5

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Where this comes from

Written in our own words from the documents below. It says what the year usually covers; it is not the official text, which the curriculum's own pages hold.

  • Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (2010), by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy (2010), by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Next Generation Science Standards (2013), by NGSS Lead States
  • College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards (2013), by National Council for the Social Studies

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