4th Grade

4th Grade 

The fourth graders at Glacier Hills spend a lot of time learning about the human impact on the world around them.  They study empathy and how to make life better for others, the water cycle, earth materials as well as spending time learning outdoors.

Early Fall

Students built their classroom community while learning about empathy.  They were given a character with a specific need and used the engineering design process to build something to help meet that need.  Also, during the fall, 4th graders walked to Patrick Eagan Park to work on being scientists while drawing plants accurately.

Late Fall

Fourth grade students spent time learning about what shapes and forms the earth.  They participate in a real world investigation where they test various types of soil to decide the safest passage across a river.  Several components are involved with this experience and students present their findings to adults at Glacier Hills.

Late Fall

Fourth grade students spend more time at Patrick Eagan Park observing the same location they went to at the beginning of the school year.

Early Winter 

As students are studying rocks and soil in their classrooms, they are participating in investigations in the STEAM Room.  They focus on how land moves and then try to create a way to slow down or prevent erosion.  Fourth graders write a Scientific Investigation with a plan, a procedure, data collection, a graph showing their results and they finish by writing a conclusion about what they learned and found out.  

Late Winter

Fourth graders visited the Star Lab to review what they learned about in third grade and to expand on that learning with more Native American and Greek stories about the constellations.

Early Spring 

Students expanded on what they are learning about with magnets and electricity in their classroom when the visit the STEAM Room.  They explored with what a magnet does, what is magnetic, what a magnetic field is, how to create a circuit and what is needed for a complete circuit.  They also spend time working with Ozobots, Spheros, and Dash robots to connect to what they learned about with electricity.

Late Spring

Fourth graders took two trips to Patrick Eagan Park in the spring.  One trip was focused on topics learned throughout the school year: water, erosion, and movement of land, plants and animals.  The second trip was a wrap-up of fourth grade by participating in various team building challenges with natural materials.