Description
Are you looking for an engaging 4th Grade NGSS Animal and Plant Structure and Function unit curriculum? This unit is an easy PRINT-AND-GO download. In the PDF you will have the teacher guide as well as the student journals. The lessons are clearly explained, and your students will love learning about animal and plant structure and function with the hands-on, engaging activities.
What’s included in this Animal and Plant Structure and Function Unit?
- Easy, Print-and-Go PDF that includes a TEACHER GUIDE and STUDENT JOURNAL (Bonus File)
What can you find in the teacher guide?
- Hyperlinked Table of Contents
- Scope and Sequence
- Video Lectures for Every Lesson (Youtube)
- Lesson Slides (Google Slides and Editable)
- Lesson Check for Understanding (Google Form)
- Lesson plans
- Quick Digital Links to all Assessments
- Materials List
- Tips for Teaching
- Examples of Student Outcomes
- Posters and Vocabulary Journal
- Task Cards
- Flipbooks
- Answer Key
What’s in the student journal?
- All the pages the students will need to complete the unit
- Lesson Notes Pages
- Reading Passages and Comprehension
- Engaging Lesson Activities (Webquests, Centers, Stem Challenge)
- Vocabulary Pages
- End of Unit Assessment
- Early Finisher Work (Word Searches, Coloring Pages, Extension Writing Activities, Create-a-Comic, Information Flags)
What are students learning?
This unit is broken down into 6 parts. Each part includes a lesson plan of activities. The following is the breakdown of the unit:
- Part 1 – Introduction to Structure and Function: Students will get an introduction to animal and plant structure and function by going through the guided lesson, reading about scientists, and completing a hands-on lab that helps students see that function is tied to the structure. They will then be independently learning about structure and function with a WebQuest.
- Part 2 – Animal Structure and Function: Students will learn more in-depth about animal structure and function. After the guided lesson, students will complete an animal reading comprehension, and then show their learning with an animal flipbook. This flipbook can be displayed on bulletin boards. This section will end with a fun digital mystery picture review activity.
- Part 3 – Plant Structure and Function: Students will be more focused on plant structure and function in this part. They will learn with the guided lesson and then complete a plant reading comprehension. They can review the concepts with the structure and function task cards and a digital mystery picture review activity.
- BONUS Part 4 – Human & Animal Senses: These are bonus lessons for this unit. Students will learn about Human Animal Senses. Students will be guided through the lesson slide deck, and complete a reading passage. They will then have a review flipbook to complete.
- BONUS Part 5 – Human Body Systems: These are bonus lessons for this unit. Students will learn about Human Body Systems. Students will be guided through the lesson slide deck, and complete a reading passage. They will then have a review flipbook to complete.
- Part 6 – Animal Habitat Stem Challenge: Students will take everything they have learned about animal and plant structure and function and apply them in this cumulative project. This project is an Animal Habitat STEM Challenge. Students will go through the engineering design process as they work through this problem.
Who can use this resource?
- 4th Grade Elementary Teachers
- 5th Grade Elementary Teachers
- Homeschool Science Curriculum for 4th-5th Grade
- Learning Pods Curriculum for 4th-5th Grade
What are teachers saying about the resources in this bundle?
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“This resource was very helpful in quickly quizzing my students on new vocabulary. The visuals are great and I HIGHLY recommend this product!”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“My students used this as a performance assessment after completing our unit on structures and functions. It was a great review for them.”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“This was a great resource for my bilingual students because of the vocabulary and a few more sophisticated structure examples that they hadn’t been exposed to before. I chose to include these as a part of our whole group time over two days. The examples made for good discussions about how structures had functions we didn’t even realize were functions. I put it on GC for them to do a second time alone as one of their review activities. Thank you!”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“Super easy resource for independent learning and a great way to keep my students engaged!”
This unit is aligned to the following standards:
4th Grade NGSS
- 4-LS1-1 Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
- 4-LS1-2 Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.
5th Grade TEKS
- 5.10A: Compare the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive in a specific environment such as hooves on prairie animals or webbed feet in aquatic animals.
- 5.10B: Differentiate between inherited traits of plants and animals such as spines on a cactus or shape of a beak and learned behaviors such as an animal learning tricks or a child riding a bicycle.
4th Grade VA SOL
- SOL.4.2 The student will investigate and understand that plants and animals have structures that distinguish them from one another and play vital roles in their ability to survive. Key ideas include a) the survival of plants and animals depends on photosynthesis; b) plants and animals have different structures and processes for obtaining energy; and c) plants and animals have different structures and processes for creating offspring.
- The student will investigate and understand that organisms, including humans, interact with one another and with the nonliving components in the ecosystem. Key ideas include a) interrelationships exist in populations, communities, and ecosystems; b) food webs show the flow of energy within an ecosystem; c) changes in an organism’s niche and habitat may occur at various stages in its life cycle; and d) classification can be used to identify organisms.
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