The Fourth Grade Georgia Standards of Excellence for science engage students in constructing meaningful models that allow them to gain understanding of the natural world.  They speculate about the observations they make.  Fourth graders gather and interpret data and use records, tables, or graphs to identify patterns of change.  They write instructions and make sketches that allow others to carry out a scientific investigation.  They determine whether or not a comparison is fair if conditions are different for each thing being compared.  Fourth graders question claims or statements made by people outside their field of expertise.  

Learning Targets and success criteria have been added to the units of study.