Fourth Grade Standards and Benchmarks

Standards and Benchmarks for Parents

Comprehension (Reading and Listening)

1.         Use metacognitive strategies to understand.

2.         Identify and read a variety of texts.

3.         Recall story details.

4.         Explain characters’ actions and points of view.

5.         Trace character types across cultures.

6.         Identify beginning, middle and end of story.

7.         Use key words, etc. to find information.

8.         Use maps, charts and photos.

9.         Interpret and evaluate non-fiction.

10.       Analyze story feature across texts.

11.       Draw logical conclusions.

Reading Strategies

1.         Identify words automatically.

2.         Adjust speed of reading.

3.         Read aloud with fluency grade-level text.

Speaking

1.         Use new vocabulary.

2.         Contribute to discussion.

3.         Make oral presentations (with technology where appropriate).

4.         Use appropriate non-verbal communications.

5.         Demonstrate awareness of audience and purpose.

6.         Use language to interview, solve problems and make decisions.

7.         Use simple and compound sentences.

8.         Speak in a manner that guides listener.

Writing

1.         Combine short related sentences.

2.         Correctly use punctuation and capitalization.

3.         Spell correctly with affixes.

4.         Use verbs, prepositions and conjunctions correctly.

5.         Compose multiple complete paragraphs.

6.         Produce descriptive, narrative, poetry, drama and expository writing.

7.         Plan and organize ideas.

Fourth Grade

MATHEMATICS

Standards and Benchmarks for Parents

Number and Operations

1.         Understand and use numbers up to 100,000.

2.         Identify, add, subtract and understand fractions including ratio, equivalence and ordering of fractions.

3.         Use and identify negative numbers in real life applications.

4.         Recognize classes of numbers:  odd, even, factors, multiples, etc.

5.         Use a variety of strategies to estimate and judge the reasonableness of answers.

6.         Use commutative, associative and distributive properties in whole number operations.

Algebra

1.         Express mathematical relationships using equations.

2.         Determine the value of an unknown in simple equations (x+32=53).

3.         Develop simple formulas in exploring mathematical relationships.

4.         Find, analyze and show patterns of change (growth of a plant), using graphs, tables, pictures, and equations.

Geometry

1.         Know and understand the properties of geometric shapes.

2.         Compare and analyze the properties of two and three-dimensional objects.

3.         Use ordered pairs to graph and locate points on a coordinate plane.

4.         Explore relationships involving perimeter and area.

Measurement

1.         Choose and use appropriate tools for measuring length, area, mass, time, and angle.

2.         Determine the perimeter and area of rectangles, triangles, and irregular shapes.

Data Analysis and Probability

1.         Design investigations and show findings using tables and graphs.

2.         Use concepts of median, mode, maximum, minimum and range to draw conclusions about data.

3.         Use data to communicate and justify conclusions.

4.         Investigate probability and represent possible outcomes for a situation verbally, numerically, and graphically.

Fourth Grade

SCIENCE

Standards and Benchmarks for Parents

Scientific Thinking

1.         Interpret, draw conclusions, and present findings based on scientific investigations.

2.         Use scientific tools such as timers, balances, and thermometers.

3.         Use different techniques like multiple trials and control groups to test predictions and draw conclusions from experiments.

Physical Science

1.         Investigate chemical and physical changes when substances are mixed.

2.         Investigate how energy moves, is stored, and changes.

3.         Learn about mass and particles of matter.

Life Science

1.         Learn about food chains.

2.         Describe how living things are made of cells.

3.         Learn how environment, structure and behavior affect survival.

4.         Describe the building blocks of the human body (cells, systems, organs).

5.         Describe the functions of human body systems and how they interact.

Earth and Space Science

1.         Research different types of telescopes, and how each one changes what you see in the sky.

2.         Learn about constellations and Earth’s rotation.

3.         Classify rocks and minerals by their properties.

4.         Describe how weather patterns may change over time.

Science and Society

1.         Investigate the effects of pollution on living things.

2.         Learn about the use of science in information technology and manufactures materials.

3.         Explore science careers.

Fourth Grade

SOCIAL STUDIES

Standards and Benchmarks for Parents

History

1.         Identify and discuss issues, events and people in New Mexico past to present.

2.         Explain how history, people and culture influence modern Canada, Mexico and United States (example:  food, language, etc.).

3.         Explain how historians and archeologists provide information.

Geography

1.         Use map tools (example:  grids, legends).

2.         Show geographic information in a variety of ways (example:  graphs, maps)

3.         Draw conclusions and generalize from geographic information.

4.         Explain the term region.

5.         Describe regions of New Mexico, United States and western hemisphere.

6.         Describe New Mexico’s four geographic surfaces.

7.         Explain how environment influences people and how it changes.

8.         Explain how geographic factors have influenced New Mexico.

9.         Explain relationship between sun and earth.

10.       Explain how cultures change.

11.       Explain human migration and settlements.

12.       Explain boundaries.

13.       Identify natural and human-made resources in New Mexico, the southwest and United States.

Civics and Government

1.         Explain how New Mexico’s government has changed.

2.         Compare New Mexico’s state and federal interests.

3.         Explain, making laws, carrying out laws, determining if laws have been broken and which government body is responsible for each.

4.         Compare rules/laws, majority rule, public good and protection of minority in New Mexico history.

5.         Explain rights, responsibilities, why laws exist, human rights and role of citizenship.

Economics

1.         Describe incentives (wages, profits, etc.).

2.         Explain how resources can be used.

3.         Explain why resources are not distributed equally.

4.         Explain conflict with spending public money (example:  parks, parking lots).

5.         Compare free enterprise and other economic systems in New Mexico (example:  acequia systems).

6.         Explain taxes.

7.         Identify patterns of work and economic activity in New Mexico and their sustainability over time (example:  farming, mining).

8.         Explain New Mexico’s and the United States’ economic interdependence.

9.         Explain the role of banks.

10.       Explain market value.

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