4th Grade Curriculum

Social Studies	- Types of community life - History and development of the local state - Relation of state to its region, nation, and the world - World cultures - Reasons for our laws - Regions of the world - Continents	- Time zones - Earth's resources - Climatic regions: regions of the four seasons; hot, dry desert regions; cold, hot and mild regions; mountainous regions - Map skills: longitude, latitude, scale - Using a globe
Science	- Structure of plants - Environment of local state - Biological organizations - Classification systems - The insect world - Plants and animals of the past - Structure of plants - Seeds - Ecosystems - Balance of nature - Human body	- Weather influences - Weather instruments - Climate - Causes of seasons - Earth and its history - Oceans and the hydrosphere - Air and water pollution - Magnets and electricity - Light and color - Solar systems and the universe - Living in space
Language Arts	- Silent and oral reading - Choral reading - Listening skills - Telephone skills - Making and accepting simple instructions - Summarizing simple information - Listening to literature - Critical reading - Short stories, chapter books, poetry, plays - Spelling - Increasing dictionary skills	- Cursive handwriting - Simple outlining - Writing letters and informal notes - Written and oral book reports - Creative writing - Developing skills in locating information - Increasing indexing skills - Developing encyclopedia skills - Parts of a newspaper
Health and Safety	- Personal and mental hygiene - Dental health - The body and its functions - Skeletal and muscular system	- Principles of digestion - Basic food groups - Good nutrition habits - Diseases - Safety - Care and proper use of the body
Mathematics	- Reading and writing numbers - Roman numerals to C - Prime numbers less than 100 - Prime factoring - Numeration systems - Subsets - Decimal and fraction equivalence - Addition and subtraction facts to 7 places - Multiplication and division facts to 144	- 1-, 2-, 3-digit multiplication problems - 2- and 3- digit dividend, 1-digit divisor problems - Meaning of mixed numbers - Finding simple averages - Geometric concepts - Customary and metric measurement - Time to the second - Problem-solving methods - Charts and graphs

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