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On the Move (4th)
Migration and Paragraph Writing
4th Grade

The Mission
31 min

Storyline

The crew will draft a plan to address the animal migrations that are wreaking havoc on a new construction project.

Teams will help Calix California and his construction crew get to the bottom of why mass migrations of animals are trampling through their newest construction site. After reading about the whales, crabs, and their migration patterns, the crew will work together with their team to write a paragraph to explain their plan to account for the mass migration of the two animal species.

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3-Dimensional Science

Phenomenon

Animals migrate in predictable patterns.

Science and Engineering Practices

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

  • Construct an explanation of observed relationships.

  • Use evidence to construct or support an explanation or design a solution to a problem.

  • Identify the evidence that supports particular points in an explanation.

  • Generate and compare multiple solutions to a problem based on how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the design solution.

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

  • Read and comprehend grade-appropriate complex texts and/or other reliable media to summarize and obtain scientific and technical ideas and describe how they are supported by evidence.

  • Compare and/or combine across complex texts and/or other reliable media to support the engagement in other scientific and/or engineering practices.

  • Combine information in written text with that contained in corresponding tables, diagrams, and/or charts to support the engagement in other scientific and/or engineering practices.

  • Obtain and combine information from books and/or other reliable media to explain phenomena or solutions to a design problem.

  • Communicate scientific and/or technical information orally and/or in written formats, including various forms of media as well as tables, diagrams, and charts.

Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns

  • Students identify similarities and differences in order to sort and classify natural objects and designed products. They identify patterns related to time, including simple rates of change and cycles, and to use these patterns to make predictions.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

LS2.C: Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience

  • When the environment changes some organisms survive and reproduce, some move to new locations, some move into the transformed environment, and some die.

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