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Grade 4

• Language

  • 4.L.1
  • 4.L.1.b
  • 4.L.1.c
  • 4.L.1.d
  • 4.L.1.e
  • 4.L.1.f
  • 4.L.1.g
  • 4.L.1.h
  • 4.L.2
  • 4.L.2.c
  • 4.L.2.d
  • 4.L.3
  • 4.L.3.a
  • 4.L.3.b
  • 4.L.3.c
  • 4.L.4
  • 4.L.4.a
  • 4.L.4.b
  • 4.L.5
  • 4.L.5.a
  • 4.L.5.b
  • 4.L.5.c
  • 4.L.6

• Reading: Foundational Skills

  • 4.RF.3
  • 4.RF.3.b
  • 4.RF.3.c
  • 4.RF.4.a
  • 4.RF.4.b
  • 4.RF.4.c

• Reading: Informational

  • 4.RI.1
  • 4.RI.2
  • 4.RI.3
  • 4.RI.4
  • 4.RI.5
  • 4.RI.6
  • 4.RI.7
  • 4.RI.8
  • 4.RI.9
  • 4.RI.10

• Reading: Literature

  • 4.RL.1
  • 4.RL.2
  • 4.RL.3
  • 4.RL.4
  • 4.RL.5
  • 4.RL.6
  • 4.RL.7
  • 4.RL.9
  • 4.RL.10

• Speaking & Listening

  • 4.SL.1
  • 4.SL.1.a
  • 4.SL.1.b
  • 4.SL.1.c
  • 4.SL.1.d
  • 4.SL.2
  • 4.SL.3
  • 4.SL.4
  • 4.SL.5
  • 4.SL.6

• Writing

  • 4.W.1
  • 4.W.1.a
  • 4.W.1.b
  • 4.W.1.c
  • 4.W.1.d
  • 4.W.2
  • 4.W.2.a
  • 4.W.2.b
  • 4.W.2.c
  • 4.W.2.d
  • 4.W.3
  • 4.W.3.a
  • 4.W.3.b
  • 4.W.3.c
  • 4.W.3.d
  • 4.W.3.e
  • 4.W.4
  • 4.W.5
  • 4.W.6
  • 4.W.7
  • 4.W.8
  • 4.W.9
  • 4.W.9.a
  • 4.W.9.b
  • 4.W.10

• Writing Foundational Skills

  • 4.WF.1
  • 4.WF.1.a
  • 4.WF.1.b

Arizona ELA Standard: 4.SL.1.d

Review the key ideas expressed and explain their own ideas and understanding based on the discussion.

What’s In My Brain: Ramp vs Bike

Two columns. One is an example, one isn’t. Can you figure out the hidden rule before the big reveal?

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Power and Traditions

We compare the power of traditions shared by millions with smaller traditions shared by perhaps just one family.

Gr 1-8

Power in Autumn

Autumn was once powerful because of the harvest. What gives Fall its power now?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8

Power can be Visible or Invisible

What are examples of unseen Power? And can invisible power be more powerful than visible power?

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

What’s In My Brain: Inventions vs Discovery

We’re looking at inventions vs discoveries.

Gr 1, 2, 8

That Quote’s Not Quite Right: Albert Einstein

When I see a quote, I often think, “That’s not quite right!”

Gr 1-8

What’s In My Brain: Spain vs Germany

One column is an example. The other isn’t. Can your students figure out the hidden rule before the reveal?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8

What’s In My Brain: Tree vs Tree

Let’s look at deciduous vs coniferous trees.

Gr 1-8

New Uses For A Cardboard Tube

So, what can a cardboard tube be used for other than holding wrapping paper?

Gr 1-8

Student Introductions With Depth, Complexity, and Frames: Level Two

Once students know the prompts of Depth and Complexity, let’s take them much higher up Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Gr 1-8

Domesticated Animals Tournament

Which domesticated animal will win the tournament?

Gr 1-8

Types of Energy Tournament

Which type of energy will win the tournament!?

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Van Gogh Self-Portrait Tournament

Who will win the tournament of Van Gogh self-portraits!?

Gr 1-8

A Character’s Playlist

What playlist of songs best goes with a character’s change over time?

Gr 1-8

New Uses For A Chair

So, what can a chair be used for other than, you know, sitting in?

Gr 1-8

New Uses For An Aluminum Can

So, what CAN a CAN be used for other than storing liquids?

Gr 1-8

Zig Zag Cipher (Codes Part 3)

Let’s try a cipher that doesn’t substitute new letters or shapes. We just mix things up.

Gr 1-8

Notice, Wonder: Rosetta

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Critter

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Back to School: Rewriting The Beatles’ “Help!”

Can your students come up with a one-syllable word to sum up their time away from school? And then rewrite The Beatles’ song Help!?

Gr 1-8

Chess Variant: Monster Chess

What if you had really weak chess pieces, but you could always move twice?

Gr 1-8

Notice, Wonder: Craters

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Witch’s Fingers

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Habitable Planets and Moons Tournament

Which object in the solar system is most habitable?

Gr 1-8

Anti-Checkers

Sure, anyone can win at checkers… but can you lose!?

Gr 4-8

Four Player Chess

Tired of boring ol’ chess? Then you need to try FOUR PLAYER chess!

Gr 2-8

Inferring With Art: A Couple

What’s going on in this room? There are shoes everywhere! Are those… oranges? Let’s make some inferences!

Gr 1-8

The Pros and Cons of Producers and Consumers

Sure, students might know the difference between a producer and a consumer… but have they considered how they feel about each other? What, in a producer’s opinion, are the pros and cons of a consumer?

Gr 1-8

Notice, Wonder: Kuiseb

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Think Like A Philosopher

What would Socrates have thought if he watched Frozen?

Gr 2-8

Virtue or Vice?

Aristotle noted that positive traits and negative traits are often the same thing, but just in different amounts. The right amount is a virtue, but too much or too little and it’s a vice.

Gr 1-6

SCAMPER: Scaffolding Creativity

Asking students to “think creatively” won’t get you far. They won’t know how to start, they’ll get stuck with simple ideas, or they’ll just go completely wild. SCAMPER is a tool for scaffolding the process of creativity.

Gr 1-8

How Renewable Is That Resource?

Which resource is more renewable? And which is easier to find?

Gr 3-7

Notice, Wonder: Akron

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7

The Tournament of Biomes

Want to move beyond memorizing the characteristics of biomes? In this lesson, students work through a Tournament of Biomes, explaining which biome wins in each round (based on criteria you choose). In the end, they crown a 👑 Champion Biome!

Gr 1-8

Notice Wonder: Turbine

Your students will be surprised by the size of this turbine… and by what’s hanging from it!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: A River

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: A Ship

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Student Introductions With Depth and Frames

Want to introduce the tools of Depth and Complexity and learn more about your students and introduce the Frame graphic organizer? Have I got the activity for you!

Gr 1-8

Paradox: Crocodile Dilemma

A crocodile makes a deal. But the deal creates a paradox. Can your students untangle a 2,000-year-old logic puzzle?

Gr 1-8

The Resiliency Tournament

Your students will set up a tournament to determine which person or character best demonstrated resiliency.

Gr 1-8

Depth and Complexity: ❓ Unanswered Questions

This underutilized tool focuses students on what we don’t yet know and even what we can’t know.

Gr 1-8

Depth and Complexity: ⚖️ Ethics

Want to add drama to any topic? Use the Ethics prompt!

Gr 2-8

Motivation and Moral Development

Can someone do the right thing, but for the wrong reason?

Gr 2-8

Intellectual Intensity

Do you know someone who becomes a bit overexcited by ideas?

Gr 3-8

Think Like An Economist

How would an economist read Goldilocks? How would they see a rainforest? How would they study the American Revolution?

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8