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Updated Content Standards
Grade 4 Standards Addressed

Video 1: Campaign Kid (Social Studies)

Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities
Participation:

1. Describe the ways in which citizens can promote the common good and influence their government including:
    a. Voting

 

Video 2: Kidd and the Contest (Mathematics)

Number, Number Sense and Operations Standard
Computation and Estimation:

9. Estimate the results of computations involving whole numbers, fractions and decimals, using a variety of strategies.

Geometry and Spatial Sense
Characteristics and Properties:

1. Identify, describe and model intersecting, parallel and perpendicular lines and line segments.

Patterns, Functions and Algebra Standard
Use Patterns, Relations and Functions:

2. Represent and analyze patterns and functions using words, tables and graphs.

Use Algebraic Representation:
3. Construct a table of values to solve problems associated with a mathematical relationship.

Data Analysis and Probability Standard
Probability:

9. Conduct simple probability experiments and draw conclusions from the results

 

Video 3: Write On Kidd (Language Arts)

Writing Processes
Drafting, Revising and Editing:

5. Organize writing, beginning with an introduction, body and a resolution of plot, followed by a closing statement or a summary of important ideas and details.
6. Vary simple, compound and complex sentence structures.
11. Add descriptive words and details and delete extraneous information
14. Proofread writing and edit to improve conventions (e.g. grammar, spelling, punctuation and capitalization) and identify and correct fragments and run-ons.

Writing Conventions
Handwriting:

1. Write legibly in cursive, spacing letters, words and sentences appropriately.

Spelling:
2. Spell high-frequency words correctly.

 

Video 4: Space Cadet Kidd (Science)

Life Science
Scientific Inquiry
Doing Scientific Inquiry:

2. Analyze a series of events and/or simple daily or seasonal cycles, describe the patterns and infer the next likely occurrence.
3. Develop, design and conduct safe, simple investigations or experiments to answer questions.
4. Explain the importance of keeping conditions the same in an experiment.
5. Describe how comparisons may not be fair when some conditions are not kept the same between experiments.

 

Video 5: Kidd’s Treasure (Science and Social Studies)

Science
Life Science
Scientific Inquiry
Doing Scientific Inquiry:

3. Develop, design and conduct safe, simple investigations or experiments to answer questions.
4. Explain the importance of keeping conditions the same in an experiment.
5. Describe how comparisons may not be fair when some conditions are not kept the same between experiments.

Social Studies
Geography
Location:

2. Use cardinal and intermediate directions to describe the relative location of places.

Movement:
10. Use elevation, natural resource and road maps to answer questions about patterns of settlement, economic activity and movement.

 

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