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Step 1: Determine Power and Supporting Standards# of Total Standards=25# of Power Standards=12# of Support Standards=13
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4.P.1Explain how various forces affect the motion of an object.YesYesYesYesPower
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4.P.1.1Explain how magnets interact with all things made of iron and with other magnets to produce motion without touching them.NoNoNoNoSupport
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4.P.1.2Explain how electrically charged objects push or pull on other electrically charged objects and produce motion.NoNoNoNoSupport
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4.P.2Understand the composition and properties of matter before and after they undergo a change or interaction.YesYesYesYesPower
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4.P.2.1Compare the physical properties of samples of matter (strength, hardness, flexibility, ability to conduct heat, ability to conduct electricity, ability to be attracted by magnets, reactions to water and fire).YesYesYesYesPower
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4.P.2.2Explain how minerals are identified using tests for the physical properties of hardness, color, luster, cleavage, and streak.NoNoNoNoSupport
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4.P.2.3Classify rocks as metamorphic, sedimentary, or igneous based on their composition, how they are formed and the processes that create them.NoNoNoNoSupport
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4.P.3Recognize that energy takes various forms that may be grouped based on their interaction with matter.YesNoYesYesPower
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4.P.3.1Recognize the basic forms of energy (light, sound, heat, electrical, and magnetic) as the ability to cause motion or create change.YesNoYesYesPower
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4.P.3.2Recognize that light travels in a straight line until it strikes an object or travels from one medium to another, and that light can be reflected, refracted, and absorbed.NoNoNoNoSupport
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4.E.1Explain the causes of day and night and phases of the moon.NoNoNoNoSupport
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4.E.1.1Explain the cause of day and night based on the rotation of Earth on its axis.NoNoNoNoSupport
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4.E.1.2Explain the monthly changes in the appearance of the moon, based on the moon’s orbit around the Earth.NoNoNoYesSupport
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4.E.2Understand the use of fossils and changes in the surface of the earth as evidence of the history of the Earth and its changing life forms.YesYesNoYesPower
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4.E.2.1Compare fossils (including molds, casts, and preserved parts of plants and animals) to one another and to living organisms.YesYesYesYesPower
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4.E.2.2Infer ideas about Earth’s early environments from fossils of plants and animals that lived long ago.YesYesYesYesPower
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4.E.2.3Give examples of how the surface of the earth changes due to slow processes such as erosion and weathering, and rapid processes such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes.YesNoYesYesPower
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4.L.1Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations and behaviors that enable animals (including
humans) to survive in changing habitats.		YesYesYesYesPower
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4.L.1.1Give examples of changes in an organism’s environment that are beneficial to it and some that are harmful.YesYesYesYesPower
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4.L.1.2Explain how animals meet their needs by using behaviors in response to information received from the environment.NoNoNoNoSupport
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4.L.1.3Explain how humans can adapt their behavior to live in changing habitats (e.g., recycling wastes, establishing rain gardens, planting trees and shrubs to prevent flooding and erosion).YesYesYesYesPower
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4.L.1.4Explain how differences among animals of the same population sometimes give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing in changing habitats.NoNoNoNoSupport
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4.L.2Understand food and the benefits of vitamins, minerals and exercise.NoNoNoNoSupport
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4.L.2.1Classify substances as food or non-food items based on their ability to provide energy and materials for survival, growth, and repair of the body.NoNoNoNoSupport
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4.L.2.2Explain the role of vitamins and minerals, and exercise in maintaining a healthy body.NoNoNoNoSupport
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