Fourth Grade Curriculum

CompassLearning
This online alternative provides interactive, virtual classes with complete curriculum in mathematics, language arts, science, and social studies, plus critical thinking – all correlated to the latest national and state education standards. Lessons incorporate engaging graphics at all levels and lively auditory support at lower grade levels. In addition, more than 100 thematic, interdisciplinary project-based units are offered for the intermediate grades that combine computer-based instruction, research, and offline resources. Lesson plans are provided to parents online to guide them through the curriculum. Workbooks in mathematics, language arts, science, and social studies are also provided to each student for supplemental needs, along with high-quality literature geared to the student's grade level.

Visit the CompassLearning Web site to learn more about the curriculum and to view sample CompassLearning lessons.

Language Arts - Reading comprehension and strategies; genres of literature; informative, persuasive, and creative writing; grammar, mechanics, and usage; speaking and listening skills; spelling; technology in communication; thematic units in literature and poetry; handwriting

Mathematics - Number theory; understanding operations (+,-,×,÷) and how they relate; representing fractional and decimal numbers; patterns relations, and functions; representation and analysis using algebraic symbols; properties of shapes; coordinate geometry; transformation and symmetry; time attributes and measurement, customary and metric systems; perimeter, area and volume; displaying and interpreting data; basic probability concepts

Social Studies - Pre-historic cave art; ancient civilizations of the Middle East and Central America; early U.S. history; world in spatial terms; U.S. political system; production, distribution, and consumption; current events

Science - Process of scientific investigation; common properties, forms, and changes in forms of matter and energy; physical phenomena of sound; structure of solar system and interaction of celestial bodies; characteristics, structure, functions of living things

Electives - Brain buzzers; thematic units

Technology - Weekly activities using Internet Resources