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Welcome to Mrs. Mady's Fourth Grade Science Wiki Page

__﻿Introduction: __ This page is designed to be a web based support for my science students. This wiki is designed to help reteach, engage, extend thinking, and guide students to a better understanding of FOSS science- Matter and Energy.

__How To Use this Page??? __This page will be an extra guide to all the important vocabulary and lesson I have taught. You will find extra videos and websites for further understanding. I will also post an assignment with a rubric. On the left hand side you will find links to each of the four investigations. On each of those pages you will find material related to that particular subject.

 __Matter and Energy Unit Overview: Content Goals __ The Matter and Energy Module consists of four sequential investigations to introduce the multiple forms that matter and energy can take and to give students experience with the transfer of energy from one form to another. Light absorption and reflection is the focus of an entire investigation. Students also conduct and observe chemical reactions and are introduced to atoms and elements.

__**FOSS EXPECTS STUDENTS TO : **__


 * Learn that light from the Sun is the source of most of the energy on Earth.
 * Observe energy sources doing work and learn how energy (light, heat, motion, chemical, electric) can be converted from one form to another.
 * Learn that stored energy take many forms; machines and organisms can convert energy into motion and heat.
 * Describe how energy can be carried from one place to another by waves, electric current, and moving objects.
 * Learn that light energy travels in straight lines from a source.
 * Find out how light can reflect from the surface of a mirror.
 * Learn that an object is seen only when light from that object enters an eye.
 * <span style="background: white; color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Learn that white light is a mixture of all colors of light, that matter can absorb and reflect light, and that a shadow is the dark area behind objects that block light.
 * <span style="background: white; color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Learn that the apparent color of an object is the result of the light it reflects; observe that the apparent colors of an object is affected by the color of light striking it.
 * <span style="background: white; color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Explore properties of the three forms of matter (solid, liquid, and gas), including change of state.
 * <span style="background: white; color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Use metric tools to measure mass, volume, and temperature and make multiple numerical observations to improve accuracy.
 * <span style="background: white; color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Observe and analyze a chemical reaction.
 * <span style="background: white; color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Collect and analyze data to develop logical conclusions.
 * <span style="background: white; color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Predict the outcome of an event and compare the results with the prediction.

<span style="background: white; color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in;">Link to offical FOSS website: [|Foss]