Fourth Grade
 
Objectives
    
     
Science
  • The student will collect and analyze information using tools including computers.
  • The student will construct simple graphs, tables and charts to organize, examine and evaluate information.
  • The student will identify the planets in our solar system.
  • Fourth graders learned how to use Internet Explorer to collect and gather data. They then learned how to use MS Excel to organize data in a table and created a graph. With this information students were able to draw conclusions on why the outer planets generally had more moons then the inner planets. Click the image to see Daniel's table and graph he created in computer lab.
   
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Math

  • The student will determine the area of a shape.

  • Anna in Ms. Lamxay's class learned how to determine the area of a shape using MS Excel software in computer lab. To do so she had to learn how to change the cell height and width in a spreadsheet into a square grid, select a group of cells, change it's color, and define it's border. She also learned how to write a mathematical formula for area using the cells that contained the length and width of each shape.
   
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Language Arts
  • The student will compose a personal narrative.
  • Allison in Ms. Boykin's class wrote this personal narrative using MS Word software for a writing assignment.
   
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Social Studies
  • The student will design a scene of the Battle of the Alamo and compose a one page report.
  • Yalizta in Ms. X. Smith's class wrote her report on the Alamo and imported photos that she researched and also included photos of her 3D model of the Alamo.
     
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